Audrey Hepburn’s Son Shares His One ‘Concern’ About His Mother’s Upcoming Biopic

Jack SmartMon, March 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM UTC

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Audrey Hepburn circa 1955; Lily Collins in 2025Credit: Archive Photos/Getty; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty -

Audrey Hepburn’s son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, shared his reaction to the news that Lily Collins will play his late mother in a biopic

The movie will be based on the book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

“I’m not sure how you adapt that into a film and make it interesting,” Ferrer said of the biopic’s source material

Audrey Hepburn’s son is reacting to the newly announced biopic about his mother.

Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the elder of Hepburn's two sons, spoke in an interview with Woman’s World about his thoughts on the movie about Breakfast at Tiffany’s that will star Lily Collins as the late British superstar.

“I have to be honest, I’m very excited, because I like Lily very much,” the humanitarian, 65, told the outlet. “I’ve watched Emily in Paris as much as I could have.”

Of the hit Netflix comedy’s recently dropped fifth season, which moves Collins’ titular character from Paris to Rome, Ferrer said he hasn’t tuned in yet: “I don’t think I can take that much. My teeth will fall out of my head.”

Audrey Hepburn in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'; Sean Hepburn Ferrer in 2017Credit: CBS via Getty; David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty

Collins, 36, confirmed on her Instagram Stories on Feb. 23 that she will portray Hepburn in a film that screenwriter-producer Alena Smith is basing on author Sam Wasson's nonfiction book, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman.

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"It's with almost 10 years of development and a lifetime of admiration and adoration for Audrey that I'm finally able [to] share this," the actress wrote on Instagram on Feb. 23, sharing reporting from The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.

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Hepburn, who died at 63 in 1993, may be best known for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961’s iconic New York City-set romantic comedy costarring George Peppard, Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney.

(Left-right:) George Peppard, Audrey Hepburn and Patricia Neal in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty

Respect for Collins aside, Ferrer isn’t entirely without qualms when it comes to his Oscar-winning mother’s biopic. “My big concern, because I know [Wasson] quite well, is the making of it, because the whole thing revolves around one photograph of my mother standing on 5th Avenue,” he continued.

“I’m not sure how you adapt that into a film and make it interesting,” he added. “There’s not a whole lot of drama.”

Hepburn shared son Sean with Mel Ferrer, with whom she was married from 1954 to 1968. The style icon shared younger son, Luca Dotti, with Andrea Dotti, her husband from 1969 to 1982.

Speaking to Woman’s World, Ferrer also confirmed that the late Marilyn Monroe was originally in the running to play Breakfast at Tiffany’s lead Holly Golightly, instead of Hepburn. It may have been "on-the-nose casting," he said, considering Truman Capote's source material drew from Monroe's life.

“I can understand why Marilyn said no, because she probably felt like she was going to be playing herself,” Ferrer said. “It’s not very interesting. But if you take someone like Audrey Hepburn, which is the last thing you expect her to do, it’s going to create something completely new. And I think it worked.”

Ferrer and Wendy Holden are authors of the book Intimate Audrey: An Authorized Biography (on bookshelves April 7). Collins’ biopic does not yet have a release date. Per Deadline, another Hepburn biopic, Dinner with Audrey, with Thomasin McKenzie as the starlet and Ansel Elgort as designer Count Hubert de Givenchy, is in the works.

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