There is no way to get bored in the houses of Sienna Miller. Neither in her beautiful and bright apartment in the West Village of New York nor in her tiny (but much photographed by design magazines) 16th-century country house in Buckinghamshire, the two places where the Anglo-American actress lives with her daughter Marlowe. and with the memory of a good handful of interesting women. With that of the writer Caitlin Macnamara, wife of the poet Dylan Thomas. With Edie Sedgwick’s, musa trgica de Andy Warhol. With Francesca’s, the only woman Casanova failed to make his own. With that of Celia, the daughter of Duke Frederick from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. With that of Tippi Hedren, the actress from Marnie the Thief and The Birds, harassed and mistreated by the teacher. With Maggie, the character from The Cat on the Zinc Roof and with Sally Bowles from Cabaret. All of them have been played by Miller, who now presents herself to the world as Sophie Whitehousewife betrayed by a British Conservative MP in Anatom of a scandal (Netflix). Cinema, theater, television: women and extraordinary lives.
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Sienna Miller in ‘Anatomy of a scandal’ or why the “rich and white woman” look works
Sienna Miller in ‘Anatomy of a scandal’ or why the “rich and white woman” look works
What the, huh? smiles Miller, from his home in New York. When you study a text, when you really do your best to become someone else, to inhabit their world and create a moment of truth on stage or in front of the camera, something remains within you, even if the words may fade. I have a good memory and I remember the gags: from time to time I enjoy, with friends, citing some to see if they recognize the character.
Miller was -is- a influencer when the word and social networks do not yet exist, a matter that, by the way, he does not see favorably. For 20 years she has regularly graced the covers of fashion magazines and, although modeling is a profession of the past or almost to her, she is often seen in magazines. mood boardsthose collages inspiracionales that stylists use as style guides. Her bohemian air, of a bourgeois but nonconformist girl, is a source of eternal inspiration.
Every time they ask me about my style, I answer that 20 years ago there were still no social tools to see other people’s outfits on a daily basis, everything was much more natural. Now they call that aesthetic ‘early 2000s style’, they talk about the indie sleazebut so we dressed as we wanted and there was no name for any style.
Miller is American and English, by fate and choice: I was born here in the United States to an English mother and an American father. I studied in England but for many years my base was New York because most of my work was here. But now it’s time to go back to England. The work has changed, now many attractive productions are in England. He went through Heathfield, an elite boarding school for women, and the Lee Strasberg Institute, one of the most prestigious drama schools in Manhattan.. The theater was the magic door that she went through to discover the profession of an actress: Love for the theater is a family affair: my mother took me with her since I was a child. She took me to the ballet, to the opera, to the theater. The idea was that even when she wasn’t old enough to understand what went on there, she could absorb something, an idea of ​​culture. Sure, I found it difficult to sit for three hours, but I could get lost in the fantasies of the story I was watching, and then something would change. Among my childhood memories are the lights going out, the murmur of expectation from the public… Then I knew what I wanted to do with my life. Then I discovered that being an actress is a terrifying profession, based on a tension between desire and fear that never leaves you.
There is a complicated relationship between stage fright and the hope of overcoming stage fright. There is the adrenaline rush of facing your fears on stage and the promise of overcoming them. The reward is not fame, that is a consequence and it only happens if everything goes well. The real reward is losing yourself completely. The disappearance of the self, for an instant, will be in the life of another. It’s good for the soul, but it’s also a strange job. The goal is to withdraw from yourself, but when you succeed, when you disappear, the result is that the ego expands. Well, over time the ego part weighs less when compared to the sheer joy of disappearing.
That absolute, pure joy was evident in 2011, on the Royal Haymarket stage in London, where Miller left spectators and critics mesmerized in Flare Path, a work by Terence Rattigan. She was then 29 years old and the world considered her then as a model who might become an actress. It was then that Miller’s perception changed.
- I remember the wood in the theater creaking and when his character said, at the end of the play, I thought our happiness was too important to be influenced by the war or the commitment made in marriage… emotion, an absolute general sadness.
- Were you there? Rattigan is an incredibly interesting playwright. In his works everything happens below the surface. It’s like Shakespeare: if you’re an actor, it forces you to go very deep… I would like to do theater every two years. Next year I’ll be back on stage in London, although I can’t say what play. I can tell that the action takes place in the 40s, as in Flare Path. At that time, the public saw me as a very contemporary girl, a product of her present, at least as an image. But that timeless theater helped me broaden the perception that existed. My dream? Play Hamlet. Not Ophelia, not Gertrude: Hamlet. It is a role without limits. I just saw him played by Ian McKellen who is 83 years old even though the character is 18. Many actresses have done Hamlet since the days of Sarah Bernhardt. It makes me want to read it again.
And then Miller looks over his shoulder in the direction of his library.
When we finish with the interview, read again Hamlet. when she was doing Cabaret on Broadway the character brought me home, which in the case of Sally Bowles implies a lot of things… I usually brought home the accents of the characters too.. Now I have a daughter and that makes everything more difficult. Do you come home to your little girl from playing Tennessee Williams and read her a story with a southern accent? It cannot be, it will be unsettling for those around you. Acting is empathizing with the life of the characters, it’s a radical act, but it’s not always nice to feel all those emotions inside of you. When I played Edie Sedgwick [en la pelcula Factory Girl, 2006], my daughter did not exist yet. I spent three months inside that woman’s life and it was hard to get her out of my skin at the end of shooting. And she is also adrenaline. You don’t control it: if now they play me a song of CabaretI know my adrenaline will shoot up. When I played Tennessee Williams on the stage, and I did it for 120 nights, I cried on stage. So when the play was over, at the time of the performance, wherever I was, I was assailed by a great sadness.. The body remembered.
From a very young age, Miller has been seen accompanying and often stealing the limelight from stars like Daniel Craig (Layer Cake) y Jude Law (Alfie). But, after many years, she refers to her job as a feminist act: Being pretty, serving the male protagonist, lending yourself to the male gaze… At the beginning of your career, that’s what they offer you. But an actress always wants to play female leads. Today, the world is changing, the stories of strong female characters sell well… Fortunately. Cancel culture worries her, even if she doesn’t like politics: I worked with Tippi Hedren and I love her. Hitchcock treated her fatally, he was a morally indefensible man. Luckily now there is #MeToo. But Hitchcock movies? They are masterpieces. Knows? Here in the United States Woody Allen’s films have been virtually bannedIt’s a strange moment. Chinatown by Roman Polanski is a fantastic film… Will we also remove the Caravaggio from museums? Are there books by morally questionable writers? Should they be banned? These are difficult questions that come to us at a time of great change. People should be informed of everything, face reality without hypocrisy, but they should also be able to choose what they want to read and see in the cinema.
Now, Miller is about to begin a very special work, a western saga written and directed by Kevin Costner three decades after Dancing with Wolves. I shouldn’t talk about it but I’m telling you anyway: I’m doing four movies with Kevin Costner. They tell the epic of the west for 15 years, like in a great historical novel. They will be released in the cinema every three months for a year. It’s a wonderful idea to get people back to theaters. The emission in streaming arrive later. When I received those four scripts I thought: this is a television series. And Kevin told me: no, there are four movies. They will be seen in the cinema, as I like, even if it sounds like a dinosaur. I don’t care, I still love the big screen experience. Kevin is a wonderful man and a wonderful director, and he knows the American history of that period in a very deep way. I can not wait.
Until that time arrives, Miller frequents another set, this time in fashion. In the next Twin Set campaign, she will be photographed by Lachlan Bailey: I’ve never felt like a model, I’m too short. She worked as a model at the age of 19 to earn something while getting ahead as an actress.. But it’s nice to be at this job again. At this point in my life, the people I work with count: here was an Italian brand and a human value, the work is done by very nice people. And there is a very good photographer. What more can you ask for? Miller is on Instagram. He has 1.2 million followers and never posts anything. He laughs: Apparently if you’re an actress you can’t not have Instagram. They asked me to open a profile, I opened it. So I thought: do I have to take selfies now? Dance in the dressing room? And I came to the conclusion that no, I’m sorry. Can’t.
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