Lucy Boynton on Becoming Marianne Faithfull

PARIS — Marianne Faithfull was the guest of honor at the dinner hosted by Chloé creative director Natacha Ramsay-Levi on Thursday evening. But having attended the French fashion house’s show at 10 a.m. the same day, the singer took a rain check on the late supper, held at intimate Paris nightclub Castel. That didn’t stop guests including Lucy Boynton, Katie Holmes, Kate Bosworth and Alexa Chung from toasting Ramsay-Levi, who tapped three female creatives to collaborate on her runway display – including Faithfull on the soundtrack. It turns out Boynton will be playing the singer in an upcoming biopic. The “Bohemian Rhapsody” actress said the film, which starts shooting in October, will chart Faithfull’s rise to fame until the age of 23. During that period she topped the charts with “As Tears Go By,” became Mick Jagger’s girlfriend and was involved in the highly publicized drug raid on The Rolling Stones in 1967. “It’s a huge responsibility and one that I take very seriously. It’s such an honor to play someone like that and someone who has been so open with their story, in the hopes of shedding light on the way that she was treated, I think, specifically by the media, which

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