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I'm suprised she's wearing spanx under her Balmain jumpsuit, like she needs them!
 
Did she really need the spanx? It totally ruins the look for me, which is so sad because the jumpsuit is gorgeous and oh boy she's so fabulous in it! Apart from that, I think she looks really good and fresh, and we haven't seen her looking fresh in ages. Can't wait for more!
 
Marie Claire June 2015



'Mad Max: Fury Road' Star Abbey Lee Talks Leaving Modeling to Make Her Big-Screen Debut

"No one knows who the **** I am," says Abbey Lee. Taken out of context, that's not true. In the fashion world, which Lee inhabited for 10 years, the Melbourne, Australia, native is very well known for her Gucci and Versace ad campaigns and for walking the runways for Chanel, Givenchy, and Lanvin. So, some context: Not many in Hollywood are familiar with her, a plus or a minus for new actresses like Lee, 27, depending on whether filmmakers want a fresh face or are banking on a familiar one for a box-office bump.

Lucky for Lee, George Miller, the director of the just-released Mad Max: Fury Road, was going for the former. Beating out more than a thousand girls for the role of The Dag—a "bit of a pixie, ethereal but tough"—Lee spent six months filming in the deserts of Namibia and in Cape Town, South Africa, for the latest addition to the postapocalyptic franchise, alongside Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult, and Zoë Kravitz. Not bad company as you flee (scantily clad, it must be noted) across the freezing Wasteland in a War Rig while stuntpeople fly overhead.

Before her modeling agent put her up for Mad Max, she'd never given acting much thought. She's since wrapped three other films, including Alex Proyas' 2016 mythology epic Gods of Egypt, in which she plays a sword-wielding assassin with Gerard Butler and Geoffrey Rush. (Her training in boxing and Japanese jujitsu as a teen came in handy.) She also shot the Australian movie Ruben Guthrie, in which her character is a Czech model, and up next is The Neon Demon, where she's the ringleader of a maniacal group of models including Elle Fanning.

With other models transitioning into acting—Mad Max costar Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Cara Delevingne—what drives Lee? "This is a true passion, so I'm not going to take it lightly," says Lee, who admires Juliette Lewis' anti-girl-next-door career choices. "I want to be challenged, and with that comes being selective about the things I go for."

Though the former Brooklynite misses the spontaneity of New York, Lee is making herself at home in L.A., turning a spare room into an art studio, hanging with friends, dressing down ("I tend to wear more sweatpants here"). Her modeling days behind her, she gets that acting is an uphill climb. "I've started at the bottom of the pile," she says. "I have to do it all over again." Which means work trumps fame for now. Still, "If it happens, I'm not going to be mad about it."
This article appears in the June issue of Marie Claire, on newsstands May 19.
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ABBEY LEE IN NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 2015. STYLING: VANESSA CHOW. SWEATER: BOSS. COSMETICS: LANCÔME, INCLUDING ÔSCILLATION MASCARA IN BLACK AND LE CRAYON KHÔL IN BLANC. HAIR PRODUCTS: TIGI, INCLUDING CATWALK SESSION SERIES SALT SPRAY. HAIR: EDWARD LAMPLEY FOR TIGI HAIRCARE/D+V MANAGEMENT. MAKEUP: FRANK B./THE WALL GROUP. MANICURE: KELLY B. FOR DIOR VERNIS/DEFACTO INC. SPECIAL THANKS: FAST ASHLEYS, ACME STUDIO, AND COOPER CLASSIC CARS.


"I did martial arts for seven years. I got this." That's what Abbey Lee recently told a director who asked her to return to an audition to work on a fight sequence. "I booked the role an hour later," the 27-year-old Australian actress reveals. The part was an albino, cobra-riding assassin in 2016's Gods of Egypt, a mythic fantasy in which Lee will share the screen with Gerard Butler and Geoffrey Rush. But it's another epic where we'll notice the actress first; a little reboot called Mad Max: Fury Road, in which she plays a postapocalyptic damsel in distress. "There's nothing sexy about the choices that my character makes," Lee says. "I sat with the director for hours in the wardrobe room, and we worked out an outfit. We're all in minimal sorts of clothing, but I chose nothing that pushed my boobs up. It's tomboyish."

Having that kind of input was novel for Lee, previously a top model (including campaigns for Gucci, Chanel, and Versace) who always felt removed from the creative process. "The hair, the makeup, the photographer—it's all their artistic expression, and you just become the finished product," she says. "It's mind-numbing." Lee is the type who craves action. As a middle child growing up in Melbourne, she was always involved in sports, including the seven years of jujutsu. "I hated boys being able to do **** that I was supposedly not able to do," she recalls.

Though her rebelliousness has gotten her into trouble before (she says she was "politely asked to depart" her high school at the beginning of her final year), Lee has been able to channel that spirit into her art. She dances, makes large-scale impressionistic paintings, and is working on a semi-autobiographical film about addiction. "It's cathartic and at the same time hard to go back and re-experience things that you would maybe rather just let settle at the bottom of whatever pond you have in your gut," she says. She's put the project on hold and will return to it after shooting her next film, The Neon Demon, a sexed-up thriller from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.

No medium has given Lee quite so much satisfaction, or solace, as acting, which she had never even attempted before Mad Max. "Everything touched the surface but never really felt like it penetrated to a level that I was aching for," she says. "I'm in the most calm place I've maybe ever been."
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I dont think the VS magazine interview was ever posted...
When Abbey Lee was little, she thought she was a mermaid. “I was 100% convinced to the point where I gave up eating meat - it wouldn’t make any sense for a mermaid to eat a cow,” she says. Perhaps her obsession stemmed from growing up in Melbourne, Australia, in close proximity to the ocean, or maybe it was due to the limited VHS options in her childhood home. “We had three tapes in my house and one of them was The Little Mermaid. I watched it every day after school.”

Whatever the reason, these days Abbey’s connection to the mythical creatures seems more appropriate than ever; recently the 27-year-old transitioned from modeling to acting as effortlessly as Disney’s Ariel transitioned from water to land. In Ariel’s case, however, the mermaid had spent years quietly observing land dwellers, dreaming of being “part of their world.” For Abbey, who makes her onscreen debut in next month’s highly anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road, it all happened by chance.

The studio producing Mad Max had turned to modeling agencies to audition girls for the part of The Dag, a virginal beauty who, along with other beautiful women in the post-apocalyptic world, had been imprisoned. Hundreds of girls had already tried out when Abbey, who had never auditioned before, was invited to give it a go. “They told me to do a self-tape and I was like, ‘I don’t know what a ****ing self tape is.’” Luckily her father was on hand in New York to help. Abbey, who describes herself as a person of “very little shame,” was a natural and shortly thereafter, she was in the Namibian Desert filming Mad Max.

But deeming the model’s foray into acting accidental is far too reductive. For Abbey Lee (who dropped her third name, “Kershaw,” in time for the film’s release) it was more like a revelation. “Modeling was never a passion – it wasn’t something that fulfilled my creative needs - and I was getting to that point where I really needed something else. As soon as I started filming it was like the heavens opened up and it was exactly what I was supposed to be doing.”

In fact, Abbey has such an affinity for her new gig that she’s quit modeling altogether. That isn’t to say we won’t see the lithe beauty doing the occasional campaign or strutting down the occasional catwalk (“I stick to the things actresses would do,” she says, like starring in important campaigns such as the BOSS Spring/Summer 2015 ad campaign) but gone are the days of castings and superfluous fashion editorials. To drive this point home, Abbey took two long years out of the spotlight. “I didn’t want to have that stigma. I wanted to be forgotten about for a minute and then come out with this new thing. But it’s been hard – not working for me is hard.”

If the actress, who splits her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, was looking for a challenge, she found one in Mad Max. Not only was the shoot itself physically taxing, life in Namibia presented its hurdles as well. “There was one truck on set that had wifi and that was the production truck. So if we really, really, really, desperately needed Internet we had to go into that truck, but we weren’t exactly welcome to walk in and go, ‘Oh, I need to check my Instagram.’”

However, spending six months dwelling in close, often Internet-free quarters with the other young actresses cast as the film’s “wives” (including fellow Vs. stars Zoe Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Whitely) led to new friendships, particularly with model-slash-actress Riley Keough. Abbey was even a bridesmaid at Keough’s wedding to Ben Smith-Peterson, a stuntman on Mad Max.

Ever the overachiever (she admits to always “expecting the best” from herself ), Abbey has roles in not one but two forthcoming blockbusters, the second being Gods of Egypt, a mythical epic starring Gerard Butler and up-and-comer Brenton Thwaites. Slated for a 2016 release, the film showcases the actress doing martial arts, something she has both formal and informal training in. “I’ve definitely been in a couple of physical fights. I went to a pretty dodgy primary school and I had a lot of people trying to beat me and my brother up. He’s big and strong now, but at the time he was a little kid, so I spent a lot of time protecting him.”

But the actress hasn’t set her sights exclusively on roles in big- budget films. This year she also plays a Czech supermodel in the Australian dramatic comedy Ruben Guthrie, based on the acclaimed play of the same name. For Abbey, it’s large-scale epics and pared-down dramas and “nothing in between,” as she puts it – specifically rom coms.

It’s little surprise that she’s hit the ground running; during her first season as a model, Abbey walked 29 shows. Her success came from a potent combo of natural talent (being 5’11” and impossibly beautiful) and “self-competitiveness,” two factors applicable to her burgeoning acting career. While she’s off to an impressive start, the precocious Aussie is unlikely to be content until she’s truly “made it.” “When I say I do it for the love of the craft, that’s not bullsh*t, but I would be lying if I said I hadn’t thought about winning a big award.”

An Oscar perhaps? Anything is possible – just ask Abbey, who still hasn’t given up hope when it comes to mermaids. “I hate to sound like a kook, but we’ve only discovered a small percentage of the ocean. I’m willing to think it’s a possibility.”
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Mad Max: Fury Road Exclusive – Abbey Lee on The Dag and Eve Ensler


“There’s nothing sexy about my character.” – Abbey Lee

Mad Max: Fury Road introduces a gang of new female characters into the Mad Max world. Charlize Theron’s character Furiosa is rescuing the five wives of warlord Immortan Joe when Max (Tom Hardy) gets mixed up in it. One of those women is played by acting newcomer Abbey Lee, and I got to interview Lee for Mad Max: Fury Road.

Lee plays The Dag, who stands out from the other other refugees with her bright white hair and wide-eyed reactions. There are few words at all in Mad Max: Fury Road but The Dag shares many with a gang of desert women named the Vuvalini. During the press conference, Lee’s costars revealed that director George Miller hired Eve Ensler to work with them on their characters. Mad Max: Fury Road opens Friday, May 15 with early shows Thursday at 7.

Nerd Report: Mad Max: Fury Road is your first movie. How did this happen for you?

Abbey Lee: I believe George had been searching for my role within the acting industry and he couldn’t find it, so he branched out to modeling agents which is where I got the call to do a self tape. I didn’t even know what a self tape was at that time. I hadn’t pursued film previously so I was pretty raw to it all. But yeah, I got asked to self tape and I booked it off that.

Nerd Report: We see a lot in your eyes, like The Dag is seeing things she’d never seen before. Is that because you were seeing things you’d never seen before too?

Abbey Lee: Yes and no. My character is interesting. She’s a very observant human being and sort of like an otherworldly creature who seems to be tapped into things before they’re even happening. So I think that’s where she gets the wide eyed look from. I think that George was looking for a piece of the characters in the actual people that he cast, so he must’ve seen a piece of me in that too.

Nerd Report: She just throws that horrible belt away, doesn’t she?

Abbey Lee: Yeah, which is a strong scene, that one.

Nerd Report: It was. Was that your moment that you added, or something George directed you?

Abbey Lee: That was in the script. It’s a symbol of freedom to cut the chastity belt like that.

Nerd Report: Was biting Nicholas Hoult in the script too?

Abbey Lee: I invented that. A lot of the script was laid out as “this is what’s happening” but actually the details of what were happening in those scenes were left up to our imagination. Biting Nic, I don’t know where that came from. I guess he looked tasty.

Nerd Report: And a little primal.

Abbey Lee: Yeah, which these girls are.

Nerd Report: I had no idea the five of you worked with Eve Ensler on your characters. What specifically did you get for The Dag from Ensler?

Abbey Lee: Us girls are fortunate that in our lives that we haven’t had the harm that our characters have endured. So it was difficult to try and go there emotionally and mentally. To have Eve come in and tell us stories about women in the Congo who’d gone through similar experiences as our characters, it was really touching. It helped a lot, but just being around Eve feels good.

Nerd Report: Was it comfortable sleeping in the backseat of the big rig with all of your costars tangled up?

Abbey Lee: There was a lot of steel, a lot of hard steel so I wouldn’t say that it was overly comfortable, but there were certainly people on set who did their best to make it comfortable. I was comfortable with the other girls. We were all really tight by that point so we were certainly comfortable with each other.

Nerd Report: Would you have to sit in the big rig for most of the shoot just to be in the background?

Abbey Lee: Yeah, they had a second unit for a lot of wide angle shots where we had doubles in there, but for the most part we were in the rig. It was so difficult to get in an out of the rig that we just stayed in there for a lot of the time.

Nerd Report: But when we see through the windshield, that’s really you.

Abbey Lee: Yeah, we’re in there.

Nerd Report: What was it like shooting the scenes with the Vuvalini women in the desert at night?

Abbey Lee: Interestingly enough, those were day for night shoots so it was actually in the middle of the day. Us girls were all together for so long and to have new cast members come on board halfway through and add a different dynamic, it was exciting for us to have new people on set. They’re all awesome. To have these awesome really strong women, a lot of whom were theater actors as well, they were cool to be around.

Nerd Report: Was any of it night for night in Namibia?

Abbey Lee: I can’t remember. I think there were a couple of nights where we shot night for night, but a lot of the time it was day for night. It’s just easier to do it that way. The Namibian desert at night is very quiet and very cold, a little bit eerie sometimes I suppose.

Nerd Report: Was it very loud when all the cars and trucks were going?

Abbey Lee: Oh, incredibly loud. I mean, George had to use a megaphone to communicate with us. Very loud.

Nerd Report: Did you have to redo any of your dialogue because of that?

Abbey Lee: Yeah, all of it. Pretty much everything I say is ADR.

Nerd Report: Being your first movie, was that a weird process?

Abbey Lee: It’s exhausting. I found it really exhausting. You spend hours and hours and hours in a dark room going through all the emotions of your character that you went through over a six month period, so it’s very bizarre but I didn’t find it difficult. I think ADR is all about rhythm and timing which is something that I’m comfortable with.

Nerd Report: Did Charlize Theron become sort of a protective den mother to all the women Furiosa was rescuing?

Abbey Lee: Yeah, she was like having a big sister on set. She’s a tough woman who’s also really open, so we all got really close to her in a very sisterly way. So yeah, she was there to hang out with.

Nerd Report: Were the costume fittings anything like modeling?

Abbey Lee: Modeling, no one cares what you have to say about how you look so it was a new experience of going to the costume department and have George there with you and him be free reign for you. “This is the room, this is what you have to choose from. Just be free with your character and find what you thing you’d wear.” So that was an enjoyable process.

Nerd Report: Was there a selection of white raggy wardrobe and you picked the one The Dag wears?

Abbey Lee: Yeah, essentially. Racks and racks of bandages.

Nerd Report: So what spoke to you about the one you chose?

Abbey Lee: Just that there’s nothing sexy about my character. She’s a bit of a tomboy and she’s a bit sloppy, a bit messy so I didn’t want to have anything that was too structured. It had to feel like a girl who’s a tomboy chose it. As non sexy as possible I went for basically.

Nerd Report: What will we see you play in Gods of Egypt?

Abbey Lee: I play a giant albino assassin.

Nerd Report: Is that a special effect?

Abbey Lee: Unlike Mad Max, that was all very CGI. It’s a small part, but it’s a good one.

Nerd Report: Do you have the acting bug now?

Abbey Lee: Yeah, I gave up everything else for it. I shot three films since Mad Max. I’m shooting one right now. I wouldn’t give it up for anything really.

Nerd Report: What are the other roles you played?

Abbey Lee: I shot a movie last year called Ruben Guthrie which is an Australian dark comedy. I played a girl from the Czech Republic in that and that just got asked to open the Sydney Film Festival. I did Gods of Egypt and currently I’m shooting Neon Demon which is a Nicolas Winding Refn film.

Nerd Report: What is your character in Neon Demon?

Abbey Lee: I’m not sure how much I can reveal about it right now to be honest. She’s a very ballsy young woman who’s most likely gonna surprise a lot of people.
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Actress Abbey Lee Kershaw attends An Evening with Women Benefiting the Los Angeles LGBT Center at the Hollywood Palladium on May 16, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
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Abbey looked and was so awesome in Mad Max, she really fit the character. Even with Abbey in it, I wasn't expecting to like it that much because it's not my kind of movie, but I really enjoyed it, plus all the women kicked major a**. Props to everyone involved.

Abbey Lee Talks MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, THE NEON DEMON, and GODS OF EGYPT

Now playing around the world is George Miller’s masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. Loaded with some of the craziest action set pieces I’ve ever seen, Fury Road is the kind of movie you need to see on the biggest and loudest screen. Trust me, Fury Road is not just a great action movie; it’s great cinema. As most of you know from the numerous trailers and featurettes, Tom Hardy stars as Max Rockatansky, a former cop who’s completely broken after losing his family. However, when Max crosses paths with Charlize Theron‘s Imperator Furiosa, he agrees to join her cause to help a group of girls reach a safe place and escape Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne).Fury Road also stars Nicholas Hoult, Riley Keough, Zoe Kravitz, Courtney Eaton, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Nathan Jones and Abbey Lee.

At the Los Angeles press day I landed an exclusive video interview with Abbey Lee (she plays one of the women on the run from Immortan Joe). She talked about how she got into acting from modeling, memorable moments filming Mad Max: Fury Road, what it’s been like filming Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon (she calls the film “mind bending”), her character in Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt, her worst jobs before acting/modeling, and a lot more.

Abbey Lee:
Did she realize how crazy the movie was going to be when she signed on?
Memorable moments from filming.
Did she always want to be an actor? Talks about how she learned she wanted to act on the set of Mad Max.
What has she learned over the last few years about acting and the craft?
What has it been like filming Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon? Calls it “mind bending”.
Talks filming Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt and who she plays. Says she doesn’t say much in the film and her character is all CGI.
What was her worst job before acting/modeling?
Save or Kill questions.
Future roles?
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"Downtown Abbey" for US Marie Claire June 2015

Photographer: Alexei Hay
Fashion Editor: Alison Edmond
Hair: John D. at Forward Artists
Make-up: Vincent Oquendo at The Wall Group
Manicure: Marisa Carmichael at Smith & Cult
Text: Florence Kane

Model: Abbey Lee Kershaw

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Abbey Lee Is a Leather Vixen on 'Neon Demon' Set!


Abbey Lee is fully clad in leather while filming a scene for her upcoming movie The Neon Demon on Tuesday (May 19) in Malibu, Calif.

The 27-year-old model-turned-actress, who can be seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, was joined on set that day by her co-star Bella Heathcote.

The Neon Demon is about an aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) who moves to Los Angeles. Her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
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justjared
 
I'm yet to see Mad Max. And since Abbey Lee is one of the main reasons I want to see it, I was wondering how much they actually show her on the screen? :)
 
yesitsdagny said:
I'm yet to see Mad Max. And since Abbey Lee is one of the main reasons I want to see it, I was wondering how much they actually show her on the screen? :)
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You can see her during the whole movie! I think its a big and great start for Abbey!
 
At the premiere of Mad Max in Hollywood earlier this month.
She looks amazing.
At 2:20 - "she's Swedish"
Jesus :judge:

 
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