Carey Mulligan to Play Daisy Buchanan in ‘The Great Gatsby’
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9:57 pm, November 15th, 2010
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Carey Mulligan has been picked to play Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.
The Oscar nominee beat out a number of other big name actresses rumored to be up for the role in F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic.
Baz Luhrmann, who will direct the new adaptation, has been doing readings of the material with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. It is expected (but not confirmed) that DiCaprio will play Jay Gatsby, with Maguire as Nick Carraway.
There have been no other major cast announcements to this point.
Mia Farrow and Robert Redford starred in the 1974 version.
Deadline.com first reported the news.
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