Q&A: 'Rules Don't Apply' stars learned a lot from Beatty

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the heart of Warren Beatty's long-in-the-making "Rules Don't Apply" is a burgeoning but forbidden romance between a pair of wide-eyed young adults, freshly plucked from their traditional upbringings and thrust into the capricious world of Howard Hughes and 1958 Hollywood. Serving as distant proxies for Beatty's own Hollywood beginnings, Lily Collins stars as the innocent aspiring actress Marla Mabrey, a Baptist beauty queen turned one of Hughes' many female contract players, and Alden Ehrenreich as the ambitious Frank Forbes, who gets his start driving for Hughes and "his girls."