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Keira Knightley Gutted By Missing ‘My Fair Lady’ Role

Pirates of the Caribbean star Keira Knightley is reportedly “gutted” at missing out on the lead role in a movie adaptation of My Fair Lady . According to the Sunday Mirror , Knightley, 25, has reportedly been working hard with singing lessons in a bid to get the role but lost out to An Education star Carey Mulligan , 24. “Keira wanted to play the role. She’s been linked to the production for nearly four years. She’s always loved Audrey Hepburn, who starred in the original movie, and had spent the last year working her backside off with private singing lessons. She knew she didn’t have a huge voice but she was willing to put the effort in for the role. It would have been a role of a lifetime for Keira, and she’s gutted that it hasn’t worked out.” As disappointed as Keira is, we think Carey is a much better choice.

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Carey Mulligan Is Eliza Doolittle

An Education star Carey Mulligan will play the lead role of Eliza Doolittle in a movie remake of My Fair Lady . The film’s writer, Emma Thompson , confirmed Mulligan, 24, for the role at the London premiere of her new movie, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang . She said to BBC 5 Live that Mulligan will take on the role of Doolittle, but a lead male is yet to be cast. Hugh Grant has been rumored to be in line for the role, but nothing has yet been confirmed. Thompson, who starred in the movie Love Actually with Grant, said she would ‘love him to do it’ but it has not yet been decided. The movie is set for release in 2012 and is being directed by John Madden, who has previously directed Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Shakespeare in Love .

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Carey Mulligan Is Eliza Doolittle