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Great Gatsby Star Says Daisy Buchanan Is "Like A Kardashian"
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 16, 2013
Modified Apr 16, 2013
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When Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby hits the big screen next month, it will be just as the author intended, in 3-D and featuring a Jay-Z produced soundtrack. While that's all very #hip and #modern, it was troubling us that Luhrmann & Co. might be missing out on cornering even more of the millennial demo—but hey, we're not in show biz, we never stood a chance at figuring out how to tap into those remaining ticket sales to today's youth. Enter: Carey Mulligan, who totally nails it in next month's issue of Vogue.
Luhrmann's 27-year-old secret weapon introduces the K-factor to the equation, telling the magazine that her character in the film, Daisy Buchanan, is just "like a Kardashian!" Ca-ching! Mulligan says:
"It's that kind of feeling: I'm-so-little-and-there's-nothing-to-me, watch-me-have-nothing-to-me. She feels like she's living in a movie of her own life. She's constantly on show, performing all the time. Nothing bad can happen in a dream. You can't die in a dream. She's in her own TV show. She's like a Kardashian."
Sure, there's something to that—Daisy is one enigmatic broad with so little to offer—but still, we almost made it through this life without a Kardashian tainting the world of great literature. And now that's all gone, so, fuck it, Myrtle Wilson is such a Charlotte.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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