my starring movie role

Way back in about July last year my sister and I did an embroidery commission for a movie. The trailer for the movie has recently been released, so I think I can now tell you what my starring role was!

Prue and I hand embroidered some handkerchiefs for use as props in The Great Gatsby, which was filmed in Sydney last year. If you’re familiar with the story, then you’ll probably realise that the *daisies* that we had to stitch onto the handkerchiefs are significant for one of the characters. We’re thinking that Carey Mulligan’s makeup will get smeared all over our lovely embroidery as she does a lovely little on-camera weep into the handkerchief! 🙂

Unfortunately there’s no sign of our starring roles in the trailer itself – how could they leave us out?!

In a discussion with friends, one friend wondered whether in the trench scene at 2:04, Leo/Gatsby might in fact be holding said handkerchief as a lovers memento. Close inspection revealed that its probably not, as the handkerchief had scalloped edges and the thing he is holding does not. Oh well…

I guess we’ll have to wait and see the film to find out whether our starring role made the cut. We think it probably should, seeing the props department went way over their allocated handkerchief budget with our two hand embroidered little numbers. I wrote about it in a previous post.

I believe the film comes out around Christmas, and will be in 3D, so you’ll be able to marvel at how 3 dimensional our embroidery is…!