從超模到演員：卡拉·迪瓦伊的好萊塢進軍之路

ara Delevingne， a confident 1）tangle of 2）lanky limbs and messy hair， tattoos and ripped black jeans， arched her eyebrows and popped her eyes wide as she excitedly described her habit of filming her meteoric， globe-trotting rise. “Watching 3）Lars Ulrich play a Metallica show from behind the drum kit！ Or doing tequila shots with Whitney Houston just before she died！ When I get older， I’m going to go through that footage and have the best time， because I probably won’t remember much of it.”

For her next adventure， the unfiltered Ms. Delevingne， at 22 the Brit supermodel， is planting her 4）Union Jack in Hollywood with a much-coveted part in Paper Towns， the second film based on a novel by John Green， whose The Fault in Our Stars became a$300 million hit worldwide and helped make 5）Shailene Woodley a star.

You don’t have to be one of Ms. Delevingne’s more than 15 million Instagram followers to see why she was a good fit for the role of the rebellious teenager Margo Roth Spiegelman.

But Ms. Delevingne is hardly the only attractive young woman in Hollywood， and she is certainly one of the least experienced.

The director Jake Schreier said that 150 to 200 actresses 6）vied for the part of Margo and that like many of them， Ms. Delevingne had to 7）audition.

In her tryout scene， Quentin， the neighbor played by Nat Wolff， confesses that he has loved Margo for years， even though he has primarily observed her 8）escapades from across the street. “You love me？” Margo answers. “You don’t even know me.”

Mr. Schreier asked Ms. Delevingne to deliver that line， but then 9）improvise the rest of the scenario as herself， and the actress’s knowing 10）ad-libbed performance struck such a nerve that both she and Mr. Wolff left the audition crying. Ms. Delevingne won the job in part because of her chemistry with Mr. Wolff， but largely because of her deep-rooted 11）empathy for the character.

“Obviously， in some outsized global way， Cara’s lived a lot of what Margo’s going through，” Mr. Schreier said.

Already， the Variety critic Justin Chang has 12）raved that Ms. Delevingne is “the real find of the film” and that “on the evidence of her work here， this striking actress is here to stay.”

Margo’s creator， John Green， wrote via email that the actress “captured the disconnect” between Quentin’s image of Margo and her image of herself.“She understands better than anyone I’ve ever known what it’s like to have people look at you and think they know you when in fact almost no one is actually listening to you，” he said. “I do think Cara and Margo both 13）deflect and distract. Maybe this is a response to the pressures they both feel from the outside world—pressures to live up to other people’s expectations or constructions—and maybe it is also a response to something from within： Pain that feels too overwhelming or terrifying to lay bare.”

Ms. Delevingne was raised in a privileged but hardly picture-perfect family in London. 14）Joan Collins is her godmother. Her father， Charles， is a successful real estate developer. Her mother， Pandora， is working on a memoir about her long-term heroin addiction.

“I went through so much therapy as a kid， and I hated it， and because you get so used to saying the same thing over and over again， it just becomes a story，” she said， adding later： “I always wanted to act， from when I was 4 years old. When I was younger， I hated myself， so I preferred being other people.”

Ms. Delevingne made her modeling debut in a Vogue Italia shoot with 15）Bruce Weber at the age of 10 in 2003， signed with the prestigious Storm Model Management in 2009 and took home Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014.

“Modeling was never a dream of mine，”Ms. Delevingne said， noting that besides acting， making music was a long-term goal. “But when I start something， I want to prove people wrong. I thought： I’m going to smash this as hard as I can.”

Her first screen role， as a princess in Anna Karenina（2012）， was the equivalent of playing the tree in the school play. “I didn’t speak and spent hours getting into hair and makeup for this big wide shot，” she said. “I got so nervous. Then the director comes up and says： ‘Stop modeling. And stop trying to look pretty.’”

Ms. Delevingne was so thrilled to record an audition for a 16）gritty role in an adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields that she cried when she got the call. Then， right before taping， Ms. Delevingne said a studio technician told her， “ ‘They’re just going for a name so they can sell the movie.’ It completely tripped me up， because that’s my worst fear，” she said， adding， “If that’s the only reason， I’d rather not get the part.”

Ms. Delevingne did get that part， along with supporting roles in Pan， The Face of an Angel， Tulip Fever and Kids in Love. Ms. Delevingne has booked her next lead in Luc Besson’s big-budget science-fiction Valerian and has recently been playing the supervillain Enchantress in David Ayer’s DC Comics 2016 tent pole Suicide Squad， for which she has prepared by silently imagining ways to kill her friends.

Ms. Delevingne said she hoped to follow in the footsteps of 17）Charlize Theron， who also began her career as a model. “People can put you in whatever box： model， whatever，” she said. “But if I just keep going and actually do it well， which I hope I can， then I hope people will give me more movies—and I’ll win an Oscar！”

With that， Ms. Delevingne smiled serenely.

Then she leaned back on the couch， rolled her eyes， and stuck out her tongue.

修長的四肢、蓬亂的頭發(fā)、身上的文身和破爛的黑色牛仔褲，卡拉·迪瓦伊的這副外表無不彰顯著她的自信張揚。她正揚起眉毛，睜大雙眼，激動地訴說著她用影片記錄下自己在全球內(nèi)迅速走紅的習慣。“看著拉爾斯·烏爾里希在“金屬樂隊”的演唱會上坐在鼓子架后面表演。就在惠妮·休斯頓去世前不久，我曾與她共飲龍舌蘭酒！等我老了，我要回顧這些影片，感受最美好的時光，因為到那時我可能記不得這么多事情了。”

卡拉·迪瓦伊，這位個性直率的22歲英國超級名模的下一個征程是好萊塢。她在電影《紙鎮(zhèn)》中取得了一個備受垂涎的角色，她正憑此以英國人的身份在好萊塢爭奪一席之位，《紙鎮(zhèn)》是第二部由約翰·格林的小說改編成的電影，而由他的小說《星運里的錯》改編成的電影已在全球取得了三億美元的高票房，并使女主角謝琳·伍德蕾成為了一顆璀璨的新星。

你不用成為迪瓦伊在Instagram上那超過1500萬的粉絲之一，也能看出為什么她適合出演叛逆少女瑪戈·羅斯·斯皮格爾曼這個角色。

但是迪瓦伊并不是好萊塢中唯一一個有魅力的年輕女星，而且她無疑是資歷最淺的一員。

導演杰克·斯萊爾說有150到200名女演員爭奪瑪戈這個角色，和她們一樣，迪瓦伊也要參加試鏡。

迪瓦伊試演了這一幕，由奈特·沃爾夫扮演的昆汀是瑪戈的鄰居，他向瑪戈告白，說他已經(jīng)愛了她很多年，即使他早就從街對面觀察過她的斑斑劣跡。“你愛我？”瑪戈回答。“你甚至都不認識我。……