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Maddison Brown on choosing Nicole Kidman over Louis Vuitton
Vogue has five minutes backstage with model Maddison Brown.
You’re now filming Strangerland with Nicole Kidman? How is it going?
Yeah, she’s really good. She’s very sweet, very kind of giggly, and very pleasant to be around. I’m really excited to shoot with her.
You’re playing her daughter?
I am, yes.
How did you land the part?
It was quite a long process! My agency in Australia only has a small boutique list of girls. They’re affiliated with Chic Management, which is my modelling agency, and they pick up girls wishing to move over into the acting side of things.
I first auditioned in October last year. I auditioned seven times. It came down to the last week before rehearsals, which was a month ago, and I had the choice of either going to Paris to do Louis Vuitton or to come home on a gamble and see if the director wanted to see me. So I came home from New York and she did! I had one last audition and I got the part.
Are you filming in Sydney?
It’s all over the place. I’m going to Broken Hill in a couple of weeks and then I’ll be back in Sydney in the beginning of May. I’m only there for a few weeks because my character goes missing so you have to find me…
Is acting something that you want to pursue?
Yeah, I actually did acting before modelling when I was quite young but my acting agent said I should move into modelling because I was quite tall for my age.
Do you see yourself ever giving up modelling for acting?
No I think I can do both. A lot of people have been asking me lately, ‘so are you going to be an actor now?’ and I don’t really think I have to choose. I’m not about being one or the other I’m about choosing opportunities and whichever works for me at the time.
Do you have a dream role in both modelling and acting?
To shoot with Steven Meisel and in acting, I love Quentin Tarantino films – I guess that’s on the bucket list.
Maddison Brown for You Are Not Ilona
'NOUVEAU NO. 5' features our gorgeous Maddison created by the ever-so-talented Ilona Hamer. Shot by Darren McDonald, we like to think this shoot looks like something for the latest Chanel Campaign....!
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"It seemed only fitting to shoot one of my favourite faces and rising star Maddison Brown, having just wrapped Strangerland with Nicole Kidman who serendipitously worked on the first film with Baz for Chanel ten years ago." - Ilona Hamer
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