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Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller @ Vogue London Fashion Week cocktail party (feb. 17, 2 HQ)



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She looked so old at the Casonova premiere and was she on drugs? She was acting a bit crazy....
 
From what I can see she looks great at London fashion week. Her skin is gorgeous.
 
Interview From The Times Magazine today. It's amazingly long, so sorry about that!
www.timesonline.co.uk


Super trouper

By Martyn palmer
When the glare of the tabloid spotlight fell on Sienna Miller and Jude Law last year, she didn’t blink. On stage and on screen, the young actress played on – and now her career is blossoming

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Sienna Miller is a lot tougher than she looks. Willowy and blonde, delicate-featured, with blue eyes and a smile as bright as a flashbulb, at times she seems like a beautiful waif caught in an unrelenting media storm without so much as an umbrella. And while it is impossible not to feel more than a twinge of sympathy for the way her life has been hijacked and turned into a tabloid soap opera, Ms Miller is not, repeat not, going to have anyone casting her in the role of victim.
“I guess when people read those things about you they feel involved in some way,” she says. “It’s wonderful to feel supported, but there’s a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head. I don’t want to feel like a victim in any way. I’m proud. I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am… It’s just so weird when an entire nation knows what you are going through.”
NI_MPU('middle');You can say that again. At one time the Sienna and Jude saga seemed to be generating more column inches than if Posh and Becks and Sven and Nancy and Kate and Pete were all carted off to Celebrity Love Island or locked in the Big Brother house together (now, there’s a thought). Indeed, that’s often how it feels to Sienna Miller – it’s as though she’s a reluctant contestant on a reality TV show. “It’s reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people’s lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that. You get these people on reality TV shows who are so desperate to be famous and they tell everything about every sexual experience they’ve had, and it seems the more that they do it, the more everyone is expected to do it: actors, musicians, everyone. But I don’t want to share intimate details of my private life. You wouldn’t meet a stranger on a bus and say, ‘Oh God, I had great sex last night, let me tell you all about it.’ No, because it’s your business. All this is getting out of hand.” The danger is, of course, that a media firestorm such as this consumes everything in its path, leaving nothing but devastation in its wake. And unlike those desperate for their 15 minutes of fame at any cost, Miller wants, indeed has, a career, and the talent to sustain it, and that’s what she’s desperately trying to protect and nurture. There’s far more to Ms Miller than being Jude Law’s ex.
 
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“The second film I did was Alfie, and I met Jude and fell in love with a man who happened to be a very successful, very talented actor. And all the attention I received was only because I happened to fall in love with someone who was famous.”
And that thrust her into the limelight far more quickly than she wanted. “It happened in reverse to the way that I would have liked it or planned it,” she says. In other words, Sienna would have liked to have had the career before the fame. And to her credit, despite the distractions, she is building that career. This week, Casanova, her first film as a leading lady, hit the cinemas in the UK, with Heath Ledger playing the title role.
It’s a romantic comedy in the same vein as Shakespeare in Love (indeed Tom Stoppard, who wrote the latter, was called in to give a sprinkling of magic to the script). It’s fun, pretty and perfectly enjoyable, with Sienna playing the one woman in Venice who won’t fall under the libertine’s spell – and who is consequently the one woman who can teach him all about real love. “It’s a romp, a laugh,” she says. “I loved my character. She’s like an early feminist and she’s not seduced by this man who’s supposed to be the best lover in the world. She doesn’t buy it.”
We met first just over a year ago, on the set for Casanova, when Miller was engaged to Law and obviously happy and in love. She was tired after a long day filming a tricky dance scene at a masked ball in one of Venice’s spectacular palaces. She was dressed in sweat pants and a big baggy T-shirt and puffed on a Marlboro light. “Those bloody corsets! I stupidly said I wanted to wear one exactly like they were back then. My God, you can’t sit down, you can hardly breathe. They kill you.”
She was enthusiastic about her director, Lasse Hallström, about working with Ledger, and playing Francesca. “Francesca is highly intelligent and keeps her corset tightly shut – which is good for all those people who are saying I have a talent for taking my kit off,” she joked.
This was a reference to the fact that in her first film, Layer Cake, a British gangster movie in which she played little more than eye candy opposite Daniel Craig, she scampered across the screen wearing some lingerie, a seductive smile and not much else. Then, in Alfie, she was a needy, self-destructive young woman who does her best to keep hold of the compulsive womaniser, played, ironically, by Law. And in that, too, she was required to disrobe. “As my work demonstrates, I don’t have a problem with it,” she said then. “There are times when you are self-conscious and you would probably not prance around in a G-string and a pair of boots, as I did in Alfie, in front of a crew of men.
“I had one journalist who read me a list of these actresses who won’t do nudity and their reasons why and then sat back waiting for me to say something. I was looking at her and it was like, ‘What? So I’m a crap horrible tart then?’ As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions then you are not doing your job. And I’m fascinated by people who are extrovert, so I guess I’ve got a lot more nudity to come. My breasts will feature again in a few films.”
We met again, at Casanova’s world premiere during the Venice Film Festival. Sienna was appearing in As You Like It in the West End and had taken two days off from the play to attend the premiere – nothing remarkable about that, except that most of us believed she wouldn’t show up. Two weeks earlier the “Jude and the Nanny” story had broken. In July last year, one of the Sunday tabloids described, in lurid detail, how Law had had an affair with his children’s nanny, Daisy Wright, forcing him eventually to make a grovelling public apology to Sienna. The engagement was off. Turning up at a film festival – with hundreds of photographers and journalists present – hardly seemed wise. But she glided up the red carpet wearing a strapless Christian Dior dress and a diamond choker, and was poised and suitably gorgeous as a thousand flashbulbs went off. Inside, she must have been dreading it, to say the least, and yet still she had the guts to sit down in front of the press the very next day.
“Was it daunting? Yes, a bit. But you know, I wanted to be here for the film and for all the guys I worked with because they’re a great bunch.” Miller is not, then, one to hide under the bedclothes when the going gets tough. Indeed, the night after the story first appeared she was back at the Wyndham Theatre, flanked by two bodyguards and minus her £20,000 engagement ring. “It helped going on stage,” she says. “For three hours you inhabit another world and even though things were pretty bad, it meant that I had something else to do, someone else to be.” That determination – she calls it stubbornness – is as much a part of her as that blonde mane or megawatt smile. “I’m a Capricorn. I just don’t budge. I will fight a point and I won’t back down. I do find it hard to admit that I’m wrong sometimes
 
She had already earned rave reviews for her performance in As You Like It, and you have to hand it to her that at a time when she was being offered some big, commercial films, she opted to prove herself on stage instead. In the process she convinced the cynics that she could act; most importantly, she convinced herself: “I feel, within myself, that I have a right to be here. I did the play and it was terrifying, but I did it. On preview night I was practically vomiting in the wings. I mean, really, I was literally retching.
“But once you’ve gone through that you start to love it and you come off stage completely high. It’s a wonderful feeling. You’ve sweated and you’ve cried and you’ve laughed and you feel like you’ve earned that applause, and then you bow and you leave and that’s what it’s all about. It’s fantastic.” She was, though, heartily sick of the photographers who waited for her each night outside the theatre and her house. “I’ve had it when it’s 11 o’clock at night and I’m being chased down the street by five men and it shouldn’t be legal. It’s invasive, aggressive, they wind you up and they push you and push you so they can get a shot of you going… [she screws up her face]. It’s hard to stomach.”
NI_MPU('middle');She was even threatening to leave London and move away. “If my life continues the way it’s been in the last couple of months, or gets worse, then it’s not worth it. I love my job and I’m passionate about what I do, but that level of scrutiny, that pressure, it’s just not worth it for my peace of mind. I’d rather not act than have that… I mean, I don’t understand the level it’s at now. I’m going to get a pint of milk, why does anyone need a photograph of that? Who cares? It’s bizarre.” Our final conversation took place a couple of weeks ago, and she sounded a little older and wiser. “I turned 24 in December and for the first time ever I do feel my age,” she agrees. She had just returned to England after two months away, filming Factory Girl in the States, playing Edie Sedgwick opposite Guy Pearce as Andy Warhol and Hayden Christensen as Danny Quinn, a character based on Bob Dylan whom Sedgwick was rumoured to have had an affair with. She was jet-lagged but still elated by the experience. Sedgwick was the beautiful Harvard drop-out who gravitated towards Warhol’s infamous Factory scene – his loft apartment and studio on East 47th Street – in Sixties Manhattan. She was his constant companion at social events all over New York and his “superstar”, who acted in his movies, including Poor Little Rich Girl and b*tch. At just 28, she died from an overdose of barbiturates.
 
“It was the most profound experience I’ve ever had creatively,” says Miller, who spent a year researching the part. “When you play someone who existed, you do feel a huge responsibility to do them justice,” Miller says. “And you can’t really f*** around and make your own interpretation of how somebody would react in a certain moment because you have all this information, all this background – so you know how somebody would react. You just know.
“Edie was fundamentally destructive and messed-up, but kind of intriguing and magical and tortured and intelligent. She was like a magnet for people, and yet she destroyed herself, and there’s something completely beguiling about that. You fall in love with her because you empathise with her. She was sexually abused by her father and was from this very messed-up family and she had a very bad childhood, so there were reasons why she went off the rails.”
While she’s been away filming Factory Girl in Louisiana, the stories kept coming: that she’s no longer with Jude Law, had a fling with Daniel Craig (strongly denied); been dating Hayden Christen­sen while they were filming Factory Girl together; and many more. I ask her if she’s still with Law. “I’m sorry, I don’t want to talk about that. I know you have to ask but I’ve reached a point in my life where I’ve made a pact with myself. I used to be polite and try to field questions in a clever way, but now I’ve just reached the stage where anything I say can be so misconstrued that I’d just rather not say anything about anything personal any more.”
She’s happy to be back home, but she’s still not entirely sure that this is where she’ll stay. “I feel the same as I did when we talked before. I feel kind of preyed upon in England. I love it, it’s my home, but at the end of the day I could live somewhere else if I had to.”
There’s no talk, though, of abandoning her career. She has always wanted to act. “Angel Gabriel in the Nativity play – I think that did it,” she recalls. “But I was brought up in a very creative environment. I always went to the theatre and the ballet with my mum and I knew that I wanted to do something creative.”
Her mother, Jo, briefly ran the Lee Strasberg school for acting in London. Her father, Ed, is a banker, and American. Her parents are no longer together and her father lives in the Virgin Islands. “I was actually born in New York but have lived in London since I was 18 months old. I feel English, definitely. I’m a Londoner and I don’t feel American in any way.”
She also plays down her looks in a rather British way; whereas most American actresses would accept flattery as a right, she knocks it away. “God, I’m not being humble, but at school, you know, braces, no breasts – which hasn’t changed that much! Ha! I mean, nice of you to say, but I don’t feel conscious of anything like that. I was really spotty and greasy as a teenager.” And now she’s gracing the covers of magazines. “All totally manufactured! Make-up and air-brushing! In Alfie, in the scene where I walk around with the G-string, they have this pot thing with make-up in it and they air-brush you with make-up so all the dimples go and the light is perfect and it doesn’t look like you’ve got lumps and bumps and marks and the rest of it.”
After school she modelled, briefly, and at 18, she spent a year in New York, studying at the Lee Strasberg school there and appearing in an off-Broadway play. Then she returned home to London and the serious business of getting acting work. TV roles followed and then that big break, being cast in Alfie. And she is serious about her career. “I want to do it because I love it. Not because I want to be famous. Casanova is my third film to be released and I’ve done very little creatively. I don’t feel in any way settled or secure in my career. I’m trying to make the right choices, for creative reasons, and they’re nothing to do with fame or money.”
In a week or so she’ll start work on another independent film, The Interview, a segment of a trio of stories based on the work of Theo Van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker who was gunned down by a Muslim extremist. “We’re recreating his films, in honour of his memory. It doesn’t touch upon his death, it’s a remake of the films he made in Dutch. But it is political and it’s kind of dangerous, I guess.”
Later in the year she’ll star in Camille, an offbeat love story with Nick Stahl and Harvey Keitel, and once again, it’s on a relatively low budget. “Yes, there are films that I’ve turned down that would have been far more lucrative and would have made my agents happier, but that’s not the point. That’s not what I want.” At 24, she’s living the life that she dreamt about, but she didn’t bargain for falling in love with a famous actor and having her emotional ups and downs splashed across a nation’s front pages every day. Does she regret that, one wonders? “No. I don’t have any regrets and I hope to God I never have regrets in my life. Everything I’ve experienced has been for a reason. And I’ve grown up an awful lot in the last six months. And that’s a good thing because I needed to."

"I’d always been one of those people who had never had anything bad happen to them and I was always profoundly happy. But, you know, you get older and you have experiences that change you, and you come out stronger and more mature as a result. I guess that’s the process of life.”
Casanova is on general release
 
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Sienna Miller at the American and British Vogue London fashion Week Cocktail party (celebworld)
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Im pretty sure theyre shorts because if you look at the second one theres some..er 'bunching'
 
angelanna said:
Sienna at the American and British Vogue party, 17th Feb (source - getty images)

i like her hair here, it looks really relaxed and cute!:blush:
 
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