Sienna Miller covers the April issue of Nylon. This photoshoot is AWFUL! I’m sorry, Nylon editors, but… really? While Sienna isn’t Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton next-level editorial content, she’s a decent subject and she’s very good with strong styling. It’s like all the stylists could come up with was, “Er… maybe we’ll dye her hair with Kool-Aid?” Anyway, Sienna is still Sienna, only now she’s going through a quieter phase. But I believe one day soon, we’ll be talking about how Sienna and Tom Sturridge split up and Sienna’s jump-off is some married dude. It’s just my gossip sixth sense. Trust. So, here are some highlights from the Nylon interview:
She works on projects based on the ‘collaborators’ not the role: “In the past I was always drawn to the roles, and was often really exploring characters, but then the final result was not what it was supposed to be. My modus operandi after I had the baby was to work with great people, no matter the capacity, even if I had a smaller part.”
Parenting & perspective: “Life is really short. A lot of what we do is a reaction to what people think you’re supposed to do. ‘Have a kid by 30. Move in, but live together for at least this amount of time.’ All of those rules I want to rebel against. Because I’m a spiteful little sh*t, basically.”
Being 32 years old: ”My twenties were a bit crazy. I spent those years working and being repeatedly persecuted by the media. Nowadays, I can be the woman I truly am, more calm, and freer too. I turned 30 and I suddenly had much less energy!”
Whether she’s good at selfies: “I’m not very good at the selfie face. I can do it for, like, three seconds and then I crack up.”
Being hacked by the Murdoch press: “I feel very let down by that system, but there is a more important thing going on: this conversation about hacking people’s phones and privacy. I’m really proud of the things I’ve done standing up for myself in that way. But it doesn’t make it easy that suddenly Jude [Law] and I are back on the cover of every newspaper in London.”
[From People Magazine & My Daily UK]
I end up feeling the same way about Sienna as I do about Drew Barrymore: I just want to pat them on the head and say, “Okay, honey. Whatever you want. You’ll change your mind in a year.” I don’t begrudge Sienna her “life change” or her new sense of happiness with a daughter and a life partner (or whatever she calls Tom) – I just think that Sienna hasn’t gotten all of that “wildness” out of her system, and like Drew Barrymore, Sienna is a woman who goes through phases. This is her “settled down” phase. Eventually, the “spiteful little sh-t” side will phase back. As for being persecuted… well, she was hacked and she was stalked by the UK press for several years. But no one forced her to bang Balthazar Getty, you know?
Photos courtesy of Nylon.
It’s a tough life.
Especially when someone spray paints “slut” across your front door. (Cough) No, seriously, say what you will about Sienna, but that was lame.
Yeah. I don’t think she’s exaggerating on this one. In one of her interviews she said the phone hacking thing nearly drove her crazy, cause she’d say something to 3 people who were closest to her (mother, sister, plus Jude or some friend) and next week it’d be in the papers. She said at one point after changing her phone many times and doing many other things to make sure she wasn’t being spied on etc she got them all in a room and asked straight up which of them was selling her private stuff to the tabloids. So…yeah.
Yeah–on one hand, I do feel really bad for her. Because she was hacked, and the married dude she was banging didn’t even get hardly any of the grief she got (but, I’ve heard of her before, based on her film roles, I’ve never heard of this Getty guy, except that he left his bitch face wife to mess around with Sienna, so it could’ve also been a fame thing, as well as sexism)……but I bet you she’s a lot more careful with what she says over the phone. What she does. It’s like this, sometimes–if you don’t want your parents to know you’re doing it, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
But, meh. I just want to know–I heard the rumors that the wife, Rosetta, is the one who blueballed her career…is that true? If it is, I think that’s shitty of the wife. I mean, yeah, Sienna was screwing her husband–but it ain’t like Sienna held a gun to his head. Or unless Sienna was harassing HER, even after the affair ended or something SWF like that….
Balthazar Getty’s wife IS one of the more well-connected Hollywood Wives, but she’s not the only one who torpedoed Sienna’s career. Sienna had a lot to do with it too.
As influential as Rosetta may be, Rosetta is not bigger than Harvey Weinstein. If Harvey wanted Sienna to have a thriving career, she’d have one. But back then there were also a lot of rumors that Sienna was/is a very sloppy drunk/user. Like showing up on set & at industry events just off her head. Costing production money & embarrassing the execs who were backing her. Eventually Harvey moved on.
Ahhhh. I get it. I don’t know much about what happened beyond the bare minimum (and even then, hadn’t known that Sienna was cheating on Jude Law), so I get it. And it does make sense. Affairs don’t ruin careers.
What ruins your career is when you diss all of the producers, cast, crew, and become unreliable….also known as the Katherine Heigl syndrome.
How is Rosetta powerful? Like is she related to a lot of the producers/directors? Or is she a producer/director? I thought she was an actress.
I don’t know exactly who Rosetta was friends with. I just remember it was always implied that she was very good friends with highly connected women, who were very upset their good friend had been hurt. Women like the wives of powerful execs and/or women who were the powerful execs themselves.
That said, I’m not even sure Rosetta had to do much.
If Sienna had delivered a Pretty Woman-type breakout performance, she’d still be working today. She didn’t deliver a hit. With young up & comers like Carey Mulligan, Blake Lively and Jennifer Lawrence vying for Harvey’s attention, he was only gonna wait on Sienna to deliver for so long.
Heard and read a while back something about her and Tara Summers (wonderful boarding school connections, don’t you know) making absolute fools of themselves at a party in which they ought to have been promoting themselves. Being shitfaced, bad mouthing locations, banging supposedly unavailable men…that’d be too much negative press for anyone to really consider taking her on, probably.
Please don’t compare her to Drew! Drew is full of gratitude for her life, unlike Sienna who needs a whaaaaaambulance because she was “persecuted” ( aka people noticed she had a penchant for married dong). Drew is also respectful of people and doesn’t cause people harm. The same can not be said for Sienna. Drew is charming and full of love. I find Sienna to just be gross.
I agree…they are nothing alike!
I barely know who Sienna is, but I agree about Drew. I think she has really grown into a lovely woman after a tough beginning.
WAAAA, WAAAA….Here’s some good advice, Sienna….if you don’t want to be ” persecuted” by the press, DON’T SLEEP WITH MEN THAT ARE ALREADY IN RELATIONSHIPS!!!!! And I’m not letting the men off the hook, believe me….but to be honest, I mostly know this chick from her “relationships”, than any role she’s played. Don’t act like you weren’t doing anything, and the press just made shit up…Not persecuted, YOUR OWN FAULT…
+1!
Me too.
Meh, given her predilection for taken celebrities, she knew the attention would come.
Misuse of the word persecution, big time.
I’ve always liked her for some reason. I’m surprised she and Tom are still together, though.
Me too.
And she’s a decent actress. She was really good in The Edge of Love.
I’ve always liked her, too. There was a moment, in 2005, I think, when she really felt like the most stylish girl around. I loved her style during that period. She seemed really liberated in a carefree kind of way, but then it just turned into a sense of hurtful and destructive carelessness. It’s unfortunate, now, to look back on that and see how it all fizzled. She didn’t have the cultural impact and career she felt poised for. She does a certain “sloppiness” – is that the word? – to her that weakens her appeal. There was a lovely charisma there, though, in the beginning.
Poor Little Slept with a shitton of questionable (puff daddy? YUCK! Rhys Ifans) sometimes married or taken ( Craig, Getty) dudes (duds?) drama courting persecuted victim… Spare me, She Lapped that attention UP you saw her being chuffed at the paps and general attention until basically she got called on it and a wife made her life uncomfortable and THIS is when she stopped being a general shithead
Boo Hoo Sis!
P.S.: You also are not that riveting an actress, good looks? Sure, but lets face it we know you for clothes and who you slept with
That semi frog pose or whatever it is called is a bad look on any woman. It presses her thighs and calves in to make them look as squishy and fat as possible. Why did they so that?
“I spent those years working and being repeatedly persecuted by the media.” And having affairs. She forgot having affairs.
Those photos don’t even look like her. I do feel bad about the hacking, but I think all of her other media problems were self-inflicted.
well they obviously didn’t photoshop her, that’s refreshing.
She’s lucky that she still gets offered roles because her peak was 2004-2006 (ended with Factory Girl) and her next projects were either unforgettable or plain baid. I think she can act but she’s quite bland at the same time (save for her cheating scandal and temporary ‘hippie fashion icon’ status) and some things you can’t overcome.
About her parenting perspective: she’s got it totally wrong, what she’s doing is what most people are doing. It’s more rule than exception. How very ‘Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior!’ of her 🙂
She was quite loved by the media, especially during her Law-years because they were such a hot couple and she had a lot going on for her. She didn’t have any problem enjoying herself but she expects the media to be what? Fair, impartial, during cheating scandals? Uhm ok then Sienna. This girl LOVED attention, it’s a double-edged sword. She didn’t seem to bothered about it.
She keeps using that word. I do not think she knows what it means.
Ha! Amazingly.
She looks different in these photos. Very pretty, but she has a forgettable face.
Yes, I couldn’t quite capture what she really looks like. That could be Liz Hurley on that Nylon cover. She’s been in the biz for a long time now and she’s a tabloid fixture but I couldn’t remember any movie she’s been at. Alright, I know she’s in Factory Girl b/c she promoted that movie so hard. It was really a Guy Pierce movie even if she has the title role.
Honestly, I think she looks like a blonde Leandra Medine on that front cover. I can’t quite figure whether that is a compliment to both ladies (Man Repeller for life!) or not :s I think we can all agree on the fact that whoever styled this didn’t do well.
I think what she meant to say is that she turned 30 and became uninteresting (she stopped actively seeking out married men), and that’s why the media doesn’t care about her anymore.
Um…. http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2014/02/blind-items-revealed_8053.html
I don’t think the affair had all that much to do with ruining her career. I think it’s more this attitude problem. She’s 30-something, yet still manages to come off as a spoiled bratty teenager. In that sense, she’s not appealing to other women and that makes it difficult to relate to her characters.
Affairs that came to light and all the negative press that generated surely doesn’t help. But yes, I agree with her attitude problems. The more she blabs the more she comes across as still being the bratty attention-seeking teen that she was. If only she had enough brain cells to understand what “persecution” and “playing the victim” meant!
AND openly, proudfully and boastfully screwing married men. Let’s not forget all that sweetie. *Biggest eye roll on the planet*
But, I guess Sienna’s selective memory/victimhood is nothing more than a perfect representation of what society-particularly American society-has gotten reduced to in recent years: No matter how atrocious, self-serving, hurtful, and all around dispicable my behavior is, you aren’t allowed to ever criticize/confront me on it because that would make YOU a “bully.” Ugh. Then on top of that there are many who follow that ridiculous doctrine and then throw gender into the mix on top of it and call it “sexism” to reprimand any female for anything EVER. (That is not what sexism is y’all; look into it.) Sigh. Sometimes I really feel close to just throwing in the towel all together!
*Where’s my coffee?!*
I read the sexism angle as Rosetta Getty’s “bitchface” being the cause of her husband’s philandering and the heightened “cat fight” schadenfreude in the media coverage. I remember that there seemed to be a powerful urge to shame and blame his wife (mean old wife!) as well as his mistress (slutty young temptress!), while he was initially either praised or ignored in terms of culpability. The Balthazar-backlash took a while to set in — it came only after it was more than apparent that he was not “separated,” and that he had blindsided his wife and children by flagrantly violating his commitment to his family. And even that didn’t really hurt his career as much as it caused an even more vehement rebuke of Sienna Miller.
So, yeah, I get how sexism is at play here — it’s not just that someone pointed out that having sex with a man who is not single, and not in an open relationship, is wrong. It was the uncalled for, totally gendered approach to the critique of the whole debacle.
THIS.
She sounds like the older version of K Stew, right down to the ‘spiteful little s***’ comment or was is ‘miserable c***’ ? Do people really talk like that in real life?
And if this is her version of stable, I have to wonder what her wild phase will be like. Oh, btw, she calls Tom ‘the guy who walks behind me in all pap pics and carries my bag when I am too busy flaunting designer clothes’ or ‘the guy I’ll soon be calling my ex- fiance’.
She really should shut her trap about persecution, she openly flaunted her relationship with a married man. And Jude was hardly free and single when they got together, let’s be honest here. She was in a lot of mediocre films and not memorable in any of them. She was good as Tippi Hedren, I’ll give her that. I think she was directed very well. She should get part in a t.v. show and be grateful, no one is interested in her as a movie star at this point.
I too feel Sienna was persecuted by the media in her 20s. If it wasn’t for those pesky paparazzi, Sienna wouldn’t have engaged in relationships with married men or been falling drunk at pubs and clubs. Darn those paparazzi and their wicked ways – making a spectacle of an actress, no less. Shame on them!
Regardless of what/who she did, it does majorly suck that her phone was hacked and all the extra dirty details were leaked. No one deserves to be violated like that.
I don’t think it’s fair of us to slut shame her…those married dudes were happy to oblige. But…I will totally bitch shame her….no one likes a bratty, drunken starlet. Finding out about the married men just made it worse.
Oh and her and Jude Law were the epitome of HOT back then. You could feel the sizzle between them!