Warren Beatty returns behind the camera with Rules Don’t Apply, a film that feels like a postcard from the bygone Hollywood in which it is set. In 1958 – not coincidentally the year Beatty himself arrived in Tinseltown – two youngsters arrive in Hollywood and find themselves in the employ of Howard Hughes, eccentric film producer, chairman of TWA and recluse extraordinaire (played by Beatty). Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich) is a driver while Marla Mabrey (Collins) is one of the many young actresses signed as contract players by Hughes RKO Pictures. Raised in devoutly religious small-town families the two struggle to fit in to the flexible morality of moviedom and especially the quirks of the Hughes universe, which appears governed by its own inscrutable rules. We spoke to Lily Collins and Warren Beatty about why the film is a throwback and an especially personal one for the director.