从超模到演员：卡拉·迪瓦伊的好莱坞进军之路

Ara Delevingne， a confident tangle of 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 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， Im going to go through that footage and have the best time， because I probably wont remember much of it.”

For her next adventure， the unfiltered Ms. Delevingne， at 22 the Brit supermodel， is planting her 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 Shailene Woodley a star.

You dont have to be one of Ms. Delevingnes 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 vied for the part of Margo and that like many of them， Ms. Delevingne had to 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 escapades from across the street. “You love me？” Margo answers. “You dont even know me.”

Mr. Schreier asked Ms. Delevingne to deliver that line， but then improvise the rest of the scenario as herself， and the actresss knowing 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 empathy for the character.

“Obviously， in some outsized global way， Caras lived a lot of what Margos going through，” Mr. Schreier said.

Already， the Variety critic Justin Chang has 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.”

Margos creator， John Green， wrote via email that the actress “captured the disconnect” between Quentins image of Margo and her image of herself.“She understands better than anyone Ive ever known what its 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 deflect and distract. Maybe this is a response to the pressures they both feel from the outside world—pressures to live up to other peoples 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. 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 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： Im 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 didnt 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 gritty role in an adaptation of Martin Amiss novel London Fields that she cried when she got the call. Then， right before taping， Ms. Delevingne said a studio technician told her， “ ‘Theyre just going for a name so they can sell the movie. It completely tripped me up， because thats my worst fear，” she said， adding， “If thats the only reason， Id 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 Bessons big-budget science-fiction Valerian and has recently been playing the supervillain Enchantress in David Ayers 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 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 Ill win an Oscar！”

With that， Ms. Delevingne smiled serenely.

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

修长的四肢、蓬乱的头发、身上的文身和破烂的黑色牛仔裤，卡拉·迪瓦伊的这副外表无不彰显着她的自信张扬。她正扬起眉毛，睁大双眼，激动地诉说着她用影片记录下自己在全球内迅速走红的习惯。“看着拉尔斯·乌尔里希在“金属乐队”的演唱会上坐在鼓子架后面表演。就在惠妮·休斯顿去世前不久，我曾与她共饮龙舌兰酒！等我老了，我要回顾这些影片，感受最美好的时光，因为到那时我可能记不得这么多事情了。”

卡拉·迪瓦伊，这位个性直率的22岁英国超级名模的下一个征程是好莱坞。她在电影《纸镇》中取得了一个备受垂涎的角色，她正凭此以英国人的身份在好莱坞争夺一席之位，《纸镇》是第二部由约翰·格林的小说改编成的电影，而由他的小说《星运里的错》改编成的电影已在全球取得了三亿美元的高票房，并使女主角谢琳·伍德蕾成为了一颗璀璨的新星。

你不用成为迪瓦伊在Instagram上那超过1500万的粉丝之一，也能看出为什么她适合出演叛逆少女玛戈·罗斯·斯皮格尔曼这个角色。

但是迪瓦伊并不是好莱坞中唯一一个有魅力的年轻女星，而且她无疑是资历最浅的一员。

导演杰克·斯莱尔说有150到200名女演员争夺玛戈这个角色，和她们一样，迪瓦伊也要参加试镜。

迪瓦伊试演了这一幕，由奈特·沃尔夫扮演的昆汀是玛戈的邻居，他向玛戈告白，说他已经爱了她很多年，即使他早就从街对面观察过她的斑斑劣迹。“你爱我？”玛戈回答。“你甚至都不认识我。……