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The ever changing face of Abbey Lee. I know she thinks it's hilarious that people say there's been work done on her face, though let's be real here. Her jaw has halved in size. Even if it is only Botox to the masseter muscles and filler in her chin dimple.

I'm not even going to start on her cheekbones.
 
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The ever changing face of Abbey Lee. I know she thinks it's hilarious that people say there's been work done on her face, though let's be real here. Her jaw has halved in size. Even if it is only Botox to the masseter muscles and filler in her chin dimple.

I'm not even going to start on her cheekbones.
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Let's not forget that she started modelling when she was 17 though. Everyone's face is a bit wider when younger, not to mention features/angles of the face are also generally softer and not nearly as defined the younger you are...
 
But also...who cares? Whether or not she's had work done, she looks great. And more importantly, she looks confident and happy.
 
Art imitating life! Queen of the catwalk Abbey Lee plays a model in her latest film Ruben Guthrie as new pictures of her in character are revealed

She shocked fans when she announced that modelling would be put on the back-burner in favour of a film career.
But in a case of art imitating life, Abbey Lee will play a model in her new, highly anticipated flick, Ruben Guthrie.
The 28-year-old model-turned-actress plays Zoya in the Aussie film, who is the covergirl fiancee of Patrick Brammell's party boy, Ruben.
In new stills released on Thursday, Zoya is sophisticated with the air of a Russian supermodel.
With long, blonde, cascading hair, Abbey truly looks as though she's stepped directly out of a glossy fashion magazine and onto the screen.
'Life is good for ad man Ruben Guthrie - he leads a party boy lifestyle, has a model fiancée and lives in a house on the water,' the film's site explains.
'He's at the top of his game, until some drunken skylarking lands Ruben at the bottom of his infinity pool, lucky to be alive.
It then explains that Abbey's Zoya leaves him, 'But not before issuing him one final challenge: If Ruben can do one year without a drink, she'll give him another chance...'
The telling stills allude that Zoya is strong character with a no nonsence attitude, while Ruben appears to struggle with his demons.
Reminiscent of her former modelling campaigns, one shot shows Abbey strutting through a dark street in a breathtaking black frock.
Her Old Hollywood 'do and bold makeup were en pointe in the shot, which will no doubt be a pivotal scene in the film.
Other grabs show the model partying with her man and a lookalike pal, and appearing to leave Ruben, walking out the door stony faced and forlorn.
Abbey's latest gig comes after a New York minute appearance in George Miller's Mad Max sequal, Fury Road.
She's also set to star in Gods Of Egypt alongside fellow Aussie, Geoffrey Rush and Scotsman Gerard Butler, as well as The Neon Demon with Keanu Reeves and Elle Fanning.
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Model Abbey Lee takes on serious role in Ruben Guthrie


ABBEY Lee got into movies by accident. But every decision the model-turned-actor has made since landing a plum role in Mad Max: Fury Road has been extremely purposeful.

“When I booked Mad Max I realised it was everything I should have been doing my whole life,’’ says Lee, who drops her surname (Kershaw) for professional purposes.

“I was feeling frustrated and unfulfilled by modelling and (acting) came along and it just seemed to fill all the holes.”
Lee was cast as one of the brides in the fourth film in George Miller’s apocalyptic franchise after the director broadened his search to modelling agencies.

Acknowledging the fact that few models successfully make the transition to serious dramatic actress, Lee says: “I didn’t think I could do it. But I guess I was just told that I could and I loved it enough to push for it and so I have been ever since.”
After Fury Road, Lee booked a key role as an assassin in the $150 million action fantasy Gods of Egypt, starring Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones).
And she has just completed work on the Nicolas Winding Refn thriller The Neon Demon in the US with Elle Fanning, Jamie Clayton, Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks.

In between those projects, the 28-year-old Melburnian filmed Brendan Cowell’s film adaptation of his semi-autobiographical stage play Ruben Guthrie, starring Patrick Brammall, in Sydney.
Lee was initially reluctant to take on the role of the title character’s Czech girlfriend.
“I kind of conned her into auditioning,’’ admits Cowell.
“She doesn’t want to do movies where she plays models. But I said: in (Ruben Guthrie) this girl gives modelling away in the first scene to find other things – which in a way is where Abbey was at.”
After discovering how much she enjoyed acting, Lee decided to take a gamble on her new career - giving it everything she has.
“I have backed away from 95 per cent of the modelling jobs that I am being offered,’’ she says.
“And I have turned down roles that would have been career suicide. Absolutely. I don’t want to get pigeonholed into ditzy, blonde roles, the girlfriend role that has no depth or value to it.
“I am interested in building a strong body of work not just being in as many films as I can.
“I want to be taken seriously as an actress so I am being really careful with the characters I play.”

After being persuaded by Cowell that Ruben Guthrie was the right career move, Lee stuck with the project for two and a half years and several iterations.
“She has been very loyal and dedicated,’’ says producer Kath Shelper who admits to being “blown away” by Abbey’s performance.
“She is my favourite character. She has very strong boundaries. She calls Ruben on his bad behaviour and she sort of doesn’t take any **** from anybody.
“It’s not a huge role in the film but (Abbey) has got a lot to sink her teeth into. She has a couple of really big meaty scenes.”
“She is a model so she is incredibly charismatic on screen. But she is also a bloody good actor.”

Zoya, a supermodel who gives perennial party boy Ruben Guthrie 12 months to clean up his act, is Lee’s s first naturalistic role.
It also marks her first low budget feature - after two large scale blockbusters.
“This is hard for me in a different way because I haven’t done anything this intimate before,’’ she says.
“Having a smaller, more closed-in set is almost more intimidating. And (Ruben Guthrie) is emotionally charged and relationship-based.
“I have never made out with anyone on screen - over and over again.”
Lee now sees the delays in getting the project off the ground as a good thing .
“(When I was originally cast, I think it would have been a more fragile time for me to play this sort of emotional, strong role.”
The model-turned-actresses says both Gods of Egypt, where a lot of her work was green screen, and Fury Road presented steep learning curves.
Shooting Mad Max in Namibia, she was often left to her own devices.
“George didn’t just have one of us girls to direct he had five or us and two leads and then **** blowing up around us everything so you were really left to your own devices to really try to hone in on how you were going to get through it all.”

At this point in her career, Abbey admits she is really just making it up as she goes along.
So far, it’s a tactic that’s working surprisingly well.
“At the moment I am just trusting my instinct and also trusting the people who are working around me.
“When somebody says you are **** or it starts to feel wrong, then maybe I will have to second guess what I am doing.
“But right now I have people around me who are positive and supporting what I am doing. There is nobody saying I think you should give this another look.”
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Mad Max Fury Road actor Abbey Lee: 'They shoot models after they're 29'

At 28, Abbey Lee knows her modelling career was reaching a delicate stage.

"They shoot models after they're 29," she says with a smile.

But even so, the Australian's successful move into movies was entirely accidental. It came when George Miller wanted to cast the five wives of Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road. When the filmmakers could not find the look they wanted from actresses, they went to modelling agencies.

After filming her own audition, Lee was cast as The Dag, which meant spending five months filming in the Namibian desert and another month in Cape Town."Six months is a long time to do anything," she says. "It was very long hours – most of the time we were shooting six-day weeks."It was the middle of winter so it was freezing cold. There was a lot of dust."But I like being challenged. I like physically pushing myself."

Lee, who grew up in Melbourne as Abbey Lee Kershaw before becoming a leading model on international catwalks, advertising campaigns and magazine covers, enjoyed acting so much she gave up full-time modelling and moved to Los Angeles."As soon as I started shooting Mad Max, I realised it was kind of where I wanted to be my whole life and I didn't realise it," she says.

Lee has quickly built an impressive list of movies.
In Alex Proyas' fantasy epic Gods Of Egypt, due out next April, she plays an assassin. In Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, also in post-production, she acts opposite Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks and Elle Fanning.
And in Brendan Cowell's Ruben Guthrie, which opens this week, she plays Zoya, the Czech model fiancee of the hard-living title character (Patrick Brammall) who urges him to give up alcohol for a year to save his life.

It is a strong performance as the most moral (and wisest) character in a blackly comic drama about the grip that alcohol has on our lives.
Lee initially turned down the role because she did not want to play a model."I said no to Brendan about 17 times," she says. "But there were so many good things about it so I just ended up having to take a risk."

It proved to be a very different experience to Mad Max."Ruben Guthrie was an intimate, more collaborative experience," Lee says. "I felt like I was in theatre at times because of the way Brendan works."It was an important experience just because I got more of a lesson about working tightly with actors. I got the chance to work on a more personal level. And I also had the challenge of the accent, which was something I worked quite hard on."

Lee, who arrives at our interview with her nan who is in town for the night's gala screening and would like to listen in, laughs when asked who she plays in The Neon Demon."That's another model," she says. "But, again, it was a case of I read the script and I'll never get a chance like that again."It just so happens that twice now, really good opportunities have come up and they happen to be models."In what she describes as "essentially a horror film" from the director of Drive and Only God Forgives, she at least gets some substance playing a sadistic, jaded, self-destructive, older model.

On where her acting goes from here, Lee admits she has no plans other reading scripts and auditioning."I think I know more about what I don't like than what I do," she says. "Every time a script lands in my lap, I'm surprised at the sort of roles that have interest in me and that I also like.
"But, for me, it's just about making the right choices, whether it be the director you're working with or what the character goes through."

Lee has told her agent not to send her scripts where she would just be someone's girlfriend."I don't have interest in being in romcoms​ or playing just an average girl next door. To be honest, I'd rather not waste my time."I'd rather be trying to get a role that has some sort of interesting arc as a character. I'd rather the experience be as grand and as epic as it can be."

But Lee has quickly realised the film business has more in common with modelling than she thought."When I started acting, I felt so relieved that it wasn't about my face and my body any more," she says. "That I could relax and I just give all the other things that I have to give."I was a little bit upset to find that it's just as bad if not worse – or it can be. That it's still a lot about your image."I guess it's obvious because you're on screen but I didn't think it was going to quite like it is."
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Abbey Lee opens up on why acting is way better than modelling

Being an icy blonde and an excellent pouter adds to the effect.

She has a nose ring and finger tattoos, and was in a rock band.She’s ballsy and a bit political — she once scrawled “GUN CONTROL” across her navel and flashed it for the cameras at the Met Gala.

Then there’s the resumé.

Since reinventing herself as a movie star last year, she’s played an enslaved concubine in Mad Max: Fury Road and wrapped turns as a jilted Czech model in Ruben Guthrie, “an albino, serpent-riding assassin” in Gods of Egypt and a maniacal beauty in The Neon Demon.

But talk to her and she couldn’t be sunnier.She’s in a good place right now.“As soon as I landed on the set of Mad Max, I was like, holy sh*t, this is what I was meant to do my whole life,” says Lee.

She plays one of the five ‘wives’ on the run through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in the long-awaited third instalment of George Miller’s movie franchise, which has done nearly $360 million at the global box office since May.Not a small gig, then.

The 28-year-old had never acted before.Was it terrifying? “I’m more scared now,” she says.

“Running into something without any idea what I was getting myself in for, I was like a kid, just going in completely raw, ready to do anything I was asked to do. The fear wasn’t really there.”

The opportunity came out of the blue.

“I got an email from my agent saying, ‘They want you to self tape,’” recalls the Melburnian model, who was by then living in New York with a very impressive fashion CV — multiple Vogue covers, campaigns for Gucci and Chanel.

“I literally wrote back saying, ‘What’s a self tape?’ I wasn’t reaching out for it. It fell in my lap in the same way modelling did, I guess. [But] modelling was never a passion of mine.”

Lee was 17 when she won the Girlfriend Model Search competition in 2004, but it was a year later that model agent Kathy Ward, from Chic Management (who also signed Miranda Kerr), scouted her on the beach.

Lee insists she “wasn’t ambitious for it”; she was a tomboy, more interested playing footy and climbing trees.

“To me, the girls who [want to] model when they are 12 years old, I’m just like, how do you even know what that is? I don’t understand it, but then I had a different upbringing, I suppose. I didn’t read magazines, my mum didn’t wear make-up.”

Her mother, Kerry, is a psychologist; her father played professional Aussie Rules.Fashion simply wasn’t on Lee’s radar as a teen.

She recalls going to see prestigious Paris house Givenchy for the first time, and mispronouncing it with a hard ‘G’.

Conceding “it had its moments”, Lee says she never really felt at home in the fashion world, and as she grew up she found herself increasingly frustrated with the powerlessness of her role inside it.

“You don’t have a voice as a model; you’re the product of everybody else’s creative expression. You’re not the one giving anything out, creative-wise. With posing and being on a runway, there is the performance aspect, which I liked. But, really, it’s very mind-numbing,” she says.

“I wasn’t learning anything and I wasn’t feeling inspired, and I also think the treatment is sh*t — there’s no respect, there’s no union for models. How you get treated, there’s no one monitoring that. I was just feeling the weight of that and I didn’t like it.”

Lee has plenty to say and is — finally — enjoying being able to say it.“You don’t really get asked anything more in-depth than what’s in your handbag when you’re a model,” she laughs.

It was both surprising and exhilarating to find herself on the Mad Max junkets being grilled about what makes her tick as a person and a performer.

“You sit in a dark room for six hours, for four days straight and answer questions from over 100 people, and you’ve got to be quick and smart and know what you’re talking about. There’s so much more pressure not only to perform well, but also to be a personality when you’re being yourself, too.”

Right now, we’re here to talk about her new film, the Australian drama Ruben Guthrie, in which Lee plays Zoya, the model girlfriend of the alcoholic title character (played by Patrick Brammall).

She is very convincing — cool on the outside, with a believable fragility under the surface — although she admits it nearly didn’t happen.

“Initially when I was asked to have a look at it, there was a lot of hesitation,” she says, “because playing a model is obviously something unattractive when I’m trying to change career paths.”

Director Brendan Cowell, who also wrote the original play and adapted it for the big screen, talked her into it.“I got an email from Brendan saying, ‘You have to trust me.’ Then I thought, I can take an opportunity or I can let it go, and I realised it was up to me to make something of it — that she could be more than just a model.”

That Zoya is Czech helped — the accent gave Lee something to grapple with, and something to hook this character onto that firmly distanced her from herself.

She hired an accent coach, and tried stalking a few Czech speakers in her real life — “There’s only so much time you can spend with your waxer!” – but wanted to understand what makes a second language speaker make the sounds they do.

“The only way for me to do that was to learn to speak Czech.”

It sounds like a lot of work, I say, the long way round.
“Yeah, it’s a very, very difficult language.”
But so what, when you’re doing something fresh that inspires you? “I really just want to work [as an actor],” she says.
“If I could be shooting a movie back to back to back, I’d be doing that.”

Lee moved to LA early this year, although when asked to describe herself she says, “I’m a New Yorker with no shoes on.”
Hollywood is where the jobs live, plus it’s good for her equilibrium.“New York is romantic and spontaneous, and I kind of miss that,” she says.“[But] LA is better for my health, better for my sleeping patterns.”

In her downtime, of which there has been little of late, she says: “I make art. I like to party. I’ve got good friends I like to go out with and I also like to just snuggle up in bed with a really good movie.”

No more rock’n’roll, then? “I haven’t been with [New York-based indie/folk band] Our Mountain since I booked Mad Max. I was dating the frontman, and when you leave the frontman, you kind of have to leave the band.”
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Abbey Lee: ‘There is no security in getting paid for your looks’

She’s one of the world’s busiest models, but her film roles in Mad Max: Fury Road and Ruben Guthrie have given Abbey Lee fresh perspective on the lucrative but often brutal world of fashion and its pursuit of perfection


It’s the morning after the Sydney premiere of new Australian film Ruben Guthrie and the film’s writer-director Brendan Cowell and some of the other late-night revellers are a little bleary-eyed. Yet when Abbey Lee, one of the film’s stars, walks into our shoot, she looks like she’s had a peaceful eight hours of sleep. She’s done her own makeup and her skin is flawless; those enormous blue eyes, rimmed now with black, are sparkling and clear.

Cowell throws his arms around her. “How are you?” “I’ve been better,” she replies huskily, through her gappy but perfect teeth. Unquestionably, the 28-year-old Lee looks every inch the million-dollar supermodel, even as she works hard to shake off that tag. Largely absent from the world’s catwalks of late, she’s focused instead on her acting career, appearing in George Miller’s epic Mad Max: Fury Road, the upcoming action flick Gods of Egypt and now Ruben Guthrie.

During our shoot, she’s reluctant to smile or “make shapes” (fashion speak for posing). Instead she stares out at the camera, blank-faced except for a touch of defiance. And she has the same wary, world-weariness when we chat. Models are used to being asked questions like: “What are your top beauty tips?” (always “plenty of water and sleep”), “what’s in your handbag” (whichever fragrance, lipgloss or lipstick the beauty company publicist just handed them) and “who are your style icons” (Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot and occasionally Tilda Swinton). Lee has played along for most of her career but she has more to offer.

Her reluctance to be seen as yet another model-turned-actress was one of the reasons she was initially reticent about doing Ruben Guthrie. Based on Cowell’s celebrated stage play, the film tells of an alcoholic advertising executive who is given an ultimatum by his supermodel girlfriend: give up the booze for a year or lose me forever. Cowell wanted Lee for the role of Zoya, the supermodel girlfriend and sent an “earnest” email, pointing out the similarities between the character and her own life circumstances. Lee could see his point. “[Zoya’s] decision to leave something that was bad for her – that might have been a really hard decision for her to make – and venture into something unknown was something I was going through at that very time.”

Lee’s background was why Cowell chased her so hard, he says. “I wanted to get the real deal and I was crossing my fingers that she could act,” he says. Turns out she could, surprising the director with her dedication. “She has that thing that amazing kid actors have, where they are so candid. They don’t have that craft, they just give you the truth.”

While it could never be labelled hard-hitting, Ruben Guthrie does grapple with the issues around problem drinking, which Lee calls “almost an epidemic”. She is writing her own semi-autobiographical film about addiction but asked about the project, she says it’s too early to talk and swiftly changes the subject. “There is definitely a specific attitude towards drinking Australians have and I see it in the British too. I think Ruben Guthrie really hits the nail on the head.”

It was in 2004 that Melbourne-born Abbey Lee Kershaw (she later dropped her surname) won Girlfriend magazine’s influential model competition. She moved to Sydney at 18 and was soon whisked off to New York. By 2008, she was opening and closing major runway shows and went on to be photographed by Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mario Testino and, famously, by Terry Richardson. Lee appeared in UK and US Vogue, scored the front cover of the Korean, Japanese, German and Australian editions, as well as W and i-D magazines. She won campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Gucci and Calvin Klein, shot two Pirelli calendars and did a season as a Victoria’s Secret model. In 2009, she closed Chanel’s spring couture show and opened the label’s autumn/winter ready-to-wear show – akin to winning the fashion world’s Olympic gold medal.

Yet all was not champagne bubbles and air kisses. She struggled with the job’s mindlessness (“my mind was slowly wiltering away not having anything challenging to focus on”) and was aware of the industry’s fickleness. “You are so disposable as a model, there is no security in it and you don’t really believe people actually care about you,” she says. “If I wasn’t a hot flavour anymore, I was going to lose work.”

The physical demands also took their toll. In 2008. Lee stumbled and fell during the Rodarte show and fainted three weeks later at the Alexander McQueen show after wearing a too-tight leather corset. She tore ligaments and underwent surgery in 2012 after an arthroscopy revealed bone fragments in one knee. The biannual fashion weeks – spread across New York, London, Milan and Paris – were particularly gruelling. For six week periods, models are often up until 3am for runway fittings, then expected to be ready for 6am call times. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life,” says Lee, remembering fellow models snatching sleep in corridors, on floors, in makeup chairs. “By the time you get to Paris, you can barely open your eyes. Your skin is red raw from all the makeup, your scalp hurts, you’re exhausted, you’re hungry, you are that broken down.”

It came to a head for Lee during the spring/summer 2011 collections. A recently surfaced backstage video shows Lanvin designer Albert Elbaz castigating Lee during a run-through, saying she looked drunk when she walked and threatening to cancel her appearance. The harried model is in tears. Lee glowers with anger at the memory. “If I could go back in time, I’d tell him to go **** himself,” she says. “I was so shocked at what was happening, I was muted from it. When I look back at it now, I get really angry I didn’t have the balls, the energy, to stand up to him.”

It’s a tough business, and while Lee agrees a union, as proposed recently by model activists, would make a difference, she doubts the industry would allow it to happen. Fiddling with her rings, she acknowledges it would also affect the lucrative top salaries. In 2011, Lee was reportedly paid US$100,000 for the Chanel autumn/winter ready-to-wear campaign. “That’s the only thing that’s fantastic about being a model. That it’s given me the sort of freedom I would never have had … I’m financially stable for a long time, I don’t have to worry and I’m really grateful for that.”

So when Mad Max came along, it wasn’t as though she needed the work. Lee was asked to audition and was cast as the Dag, one of the tyrannical Immortan Joe’s “wives” freed by Furiosa (Charlize Theron). Filming was a crazy adventure. “There’s **** blowing up left, right and centre, there are 600 crew members and the director is miles away with a megaphone,” she says.

Yet out there in the Namibian desert, Lee made a very personal discovery. “I landed on the set of Mad Max and it seemed like the heavens opened up and it was exactly where I wanted to be.” She adds: “I was always envious of people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they were born ... I always thought that would be so comforting and those people so lucky. I didn’t think I was one of them but at the same time I knew there was something waiting for me. I just didn’t know what it was." Searching for fulfilment, she’d dabbled in dance, music and fine art but it all came together with acting. “I realised how comfortable I was, how good it felt and how much I loved it.”

Next, she will appear in Nicholas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, playing a “washed-up older model … riddled with insecurities”. The role was another cathartic experience. “I kept looking for outside sources and the director kept pounding me down. Right before we started shooting, he said you have to stop looking out and start looking in. I was like: ‘Oh ****!’” The film is a comment on contemporary society’s struggle for perfection, something Lee herself finds alarming. “It’s insane. You can no longer be thin anymore; you have to be thin and ripped. You’ve got to be muscly now; chicks are getting butt implants because that’s the hot thing.” And for all her magazine covers, bumper advertising deals (she’s still the face of perfumes for Gucci and Versace) and burgeoning film career, Abbey Lee is not immune.

“Unfortunately I’m just as insecure as most women you speak to,” she says flatly. “I don’t think I feel any different to a woman who is not in my field. There is no security in the fact I get paid for my looks. It doesn’t resonate on a deep level with me. It doesn’t change the way I feel about myself – which is a shame.” She is hopeful this will change with age. “My dad always tells me that I’m way too hard on myself.” But for now restless, relentless self-doubt is what drives her: “I will feel successful when I feel content and I haven’t felt any level of contentment just yet. When I can say that in my life I am content, I think that’s when I’ll feel successful.”
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^Yeah, I was expecting her only to have a small scene but she was quite prominent throughout.
 
Agreed, she was terrific in Mad Max and her part was bigger than I anticipated.

I really dislike the way she seems to bag modelling or rather her time as a model.
Granted it's her own experience and understandably it was often very hard work (:innocent:) but she's almost disgruntled by it and rarely has anything good to say.
She did say that she appreciates the fact that it's given her financial freedom but seems to forget that it launched her into a multimillion-dollar brand and dare I say it, has helped significantly with her budding acting career..
Let's be honest.
She just seems angry about the whole experience but....maybe that's just how she comes across because she appears to be quite blunt and dry.
 
I had no idea she was so unhappy with modelling. Obviously it does have its bad sides, but she was a really good model, got good jobs, she made a lot of money and built quite a career.
Well I wish her the best of luck with acting now.
 
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Agreed, she was terrific in Mad Max and her part was bigger than I anticipated.

I really dislike the way she seems to bag modelling or rather her time as a model.
Granted it's her own experience and understandably it was often very hard work (:innocent:) but she's almost disgruntled by it and rarely has anything good to say.
She did say that she appreciates the fact that it's given her financial freedom but seems to forget that it launched her into a multimillion-dollar brand and dare I say it, has helped significantly with her budding acting career..
Let's be honest.
She just seems angry about the whole experience but....maybe that's just how she comes across because she appears to be quite blunt and dry.
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Completely agree. I just don't understand where all this is coming from - the fashion industry gave her everything. She complains about not having a voice, not being able to do things other than pose with a hand bag and stuff...as if that's not what modeling is. There's no doubt the industry has its ugly underbelly that gets exposed every once in a while, but considering her status as a top model, I'd say she came out of it pretty unscathed. It just seems very ungrateful. And Cara is going around doing the same thing. In a recent interview Cara said she even enjoys turning down modeling offers now. I can't help but feel a bit disgusted by this new-found attitude of model-cum-actor types. It's like how Madonna was in the UK for 3 hot seconds and suddenly was speaking like the lady of the manor in her British accent.
 
It's disappointing to know that she feels that way about modeling and has been turning down 95% of her offers but that's purely because I like the majority of the her editorials & ads. She has been getting impressive acting work and I like that she's making sure she won't be typecast.

As for Cara, I've been hoping she'd disappear from the industry since the beginning of 2012 and unfortunately it doesn't look like she's going anywhere with that July American Vogue cover. The damage has been done anyway...
 
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