Lucy Boynton is stepping up to the mic. Best known for playing the love interest of musicians in Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and coming-of-age pic “Sing Street,” the actress will take center stage and sing her own story in a biopic of “As Tears Go By” singer Marianne Faithfull. Deadline broke the news. Boynton is currently in talks to star in the project and make her debut as an exec producer.
Expected to kick off production next summer, the film tells the story of Faithfull, who was “born into upper crust society with a father who was a British intelligence officer and a mother whose own father was an Austrian-Hungarian nobleman,” the source details.
The English rock singer became an international star with her hit single “As Tears Go By” and released her debut album, “Marianne Faithfull” in 1965. Also an actress, she appeared in films such as “Forget What’s’isname” and “The Girl on a Motorcycle.” Faithfull battled a well-documented drug addiction, as well as anorexia. She also experienced homelessness.
Faithfull has written three books, a 1994 autobiography among them. Now 72, she released her most recent album, “Negative Capability,” in 2018.
Boyton co-stars in “The Politician,” a newly released Netflix series about an aspiring politician who runs for student body president at his high school. “Murder on the Orient Express,” “Gypsy,” and “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” are among her other credits.
