I Can Only Hope

Lily Collins chatted with Collider on the set of her movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones this past October. Lily spent the majority of the Fall season in Toronto filming the movie.

In the interview, Lily talks about being a fan of the series, working with with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, screentesting with Jamie Campbell Bower, and so much more!

On being a fan of the series: “Yeah, I was actually a fan of the series before I was cast. I’ve always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I’ve always kind of loved magic and fantasy. Having read the books and being really familiar with Clary, and just kind of admiring her as a character, when Screen Gems originally approached me for it, I had just done Priest. It was kind of some of the same team that was part of that project. I was thrilled. I was like a fan, so a fan being cast as a heroine that they admired.”

On working with with Jonathan Rhys Meyers: “He’s so intense. Yeah, Jonathan, oh my gosh. He is playing my dad, so it’s kind of funny at the same time to be like… he’s beating me up, but then he’s like ‘Oh, hey daughter…’ It makes it fun.”

On screen testing with Jamie: “I read with a couple of different guys that had come in. Jamie just came in and I’ve said this before, that was it. He was just himself. He had this perfect mixture of being this witty, kind of jokey, cocky in the best sense of the word, but also extremely vulnerable, emotional and this great mixture of emotions. And that’s what Jace is. He has to walk in a room and make people turn their heads and that’s what Jamie does.”

To read the full interview click here. The movie will be released to theaters on August 23! I am really hoping this movie is as good as these people say it is. Fingers crossed!