Overview
- Collins will portray Wallis Simpson in My Duchess, directed by Mike Newell from a script by Louise Fennell.
- Isabella Rossellini is cast as Suzanne Blum, the French lawyer who advised Simpson late in life.
- Collins calls the role a passion project she has chased for decades to secure a meaningful part at her age.
- She links her interest in Simpson to her own typecasting after Dynasty, saying Aaron Spelling’s line “Joan is Alexis” haunted her.
- After Edward VIII abdicated to marry Simpson, they lived in France for decades, and she died in Paris in 1986.