Like something out of a fairy tale, it was the wedding of the actress Lily Collins, 32, and the screenwriter and director Charlie McDowell, 38. The marriage ceremony took place last weekend in Dunton, in the state of Colorado, in the middle of a forest, between trees and waterfalls.
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Collins and McDowell have been dating for about two years, according to the specialized American press, and announced their engagement at the end of September 2020. He had previously had romantic relationships with actresses such as Rooney Mara and Emilia Clarke. “What started as a fairy tale is now my reality forever. I will never be able to describe correctly what this otherworldly weekend was like, but 'magical' is a good start ”, Collins wrote in one of the three images of the bride and groom that he has uploaded to his Instagram profile, with more 23 million followers. Among the famous people who have congratulated them are actress Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Grace Moretz, Amy Schumer, Vanessa Hudgens and Diane Kruger, model Jon Kortajarena, singer Lionel Richie and tennis player Maria Sharapova.
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For the celebration, the bride wore a fitted white long-sleeved lace gown accompanied by a hooded cape and designed by Ralph Lauren.
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The wedding brings together two artistic sagas from the United States. Collins is an actress and in recent months she has starred in one of the series of the season,
Emily in Paris.
In addition, the young woman is the daughter of singer Phil Collins (the third of her five children) and Jill Tavelman. Her parents' marriage broke up when the girl was only five years old, and she moved with her mother to Los Angeles from the UK, so her relationship with the singer has been spotty. For his part, McDowell is the son of fellow actors Malcolm McDowell (
A Clockwork Orange
,
Star Trek
,
Mozart in the jungle
) and Mary Steenburgen, popular face of series and films such as
Back to the Future
and winner of an Oscar in 1980 for
Melvin and Howard
.
The marriage was married between 1980 and 1990. Since 1995 Steenburgen has been married to fellow actor Ted Danson;
while in 1991 he married Kelley Kuhr, with whom he had three other children.
Actors Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell at a 1981 Oscars party, in which she won Best Supporting Actress for "Melvin and Howard." Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty
The mother of the groom has assured that she is very happy with the incorporation of Collins into her family.
"Thank you for allowing us all to enjoy the beauty of your love," wrote the actress on her Instagram profile.
“My heart is overflowing, it almost seems that these last days were some kind of beautiful dream.
But everything is real, and I feel like the luckiest mother in the world ”.
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At the moment there have been no photos of more guests, so it is unknown if Phil Collins went to the link. As Lily Collins has told on occasion, her relationship with the Genesis singer has suffered ups and downs. In fact, he has always explained that he never helped her in the race, because she never wanted to. “It was my mother who put the best of golden Hollywood in my head,” he recounted in an interview in 2017. “In fact, my father never called a producer, a director, an agent, or anyone. I did not want. I preferred it to be on my own merits ”. Regarding her father's attitude towards her, Collins explained in his book: “We all make our decisions, and although I do not excuse yours, at the end of the day we cannot rewrite the past”, he wrote in
Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me
(
No filters: no shame, no regrets. Solo yo
, in Spanish), published in 2017. “I am learning how to accept your actions and to verbalize how they make me feel. I accept and honor the sadness and anger that I felt about the things that you did or did not do, that you gave me or did not give me ”.
