Sienna Miller covers the January issue of Vogue to promote her role as BCoop’s military wife in American Sniper. She was photographed by Mario Testino, and I think the coat is Burberry. I’m not feeling the cover, but Sienna’s career has hit a new stride. She played Mark Ruffalo’s wife this year in Foxcatcher. Sienna just wrapped Unfinished Business with Vince Vaughn (ugh), and she’s appearing with Tom Hiddleston in High Rise. Plus there’s Black Mass with Johnny Depp and Cumby. Oh, and she’ll appear in Ben Affleck’s next directorial effort, Life by Night (based upon a Dennis Lehane novel).
Everything’s coming up Sienna these days. That’s surprising, considering where her career was five years ago. Sienna barely took any time off when she had a daughter (Marlowe) in 2012 with Tom Sturridge, but she had a big gap (via her IMDb page) in the three years prior. That was the period of time when Sienna struggled to recover from the Balthazar Getty debacle and the resulting (alleged) “vendetta.” Vogue has yet to release any of Sienna’s interview, but the cover alludes to her “second act.” She talks about her comeback in a new interview with the LA Times:
Praise from Clint Eastwood on Sniper: “Yeah, he’s quick. I definitely had heard that before I started shooting, so I was, like, ‘I better bring it on the first take.’ But if you want another one, he’ll give you another one. I understand this way of working now — there is something about the first time you say a line that can never really be repeated. Normally, I’m anxious and over-complicated and my process is quite thorough. I would keep going because I very rarely feel satisfied. But somehow with him, he’s so relaxed that you just kind of trust it. On our first day, after we’d shot an emotional scene, I went up to him, ‘I was just thinking, maybe –‘ and he was, like, ‘Have a great weekend.’ And as he was walking away he said, ‘You cast the right people,’ and that was the end of the day and I was, like, ‘Whoa.’ So that was kind of a great day — liberating. But then I had a bit of a meltdown.”
On her second act as an actress: “I think it’s narrow-minded. I struggled in Hollywood because people had really strong perceptions of who I was and it was hard to see me as anything other than this persona. I just think I was well known for the wrong things, maybe. My personal life. It got very tabloidly. My phone got hacked and I was in newspapers all the time in London, which is the most vicious city in the world for that kind of attention. Or I was known for being fashionable.”
How she fought that perception: “I sued everyone in England, basically. [Laughs] I have an injunction against paparazzi, so that’s now illegal. I obviously went to court with News of the World and the phone hacking and all of that. I took active steps and worked very hard to have a private life, which I have now had and enjoyed for six years. … So as a result of not having all those photos and not being on social media, I felt I’ve had the space to do my work.”
She tried social media: “I did have Instagram for a week, and it sort of fueled the worst part of my soul. I’d wake up every morning and have more followers and people were, like, ‘Welcome! We love you!’ And I was like, ‘Hee-hee, wow! This is actually fulfilling me!’ But I realized it was filling that part of you that will not ever be filled.”
[From LA Times]
Sienna is correct about her “tabloidy” personal life. That’s what happens when you date Jude Law, fool around with a married Balthazar Getty, and dump Rhys Ifans. Especially the second one. Now that’s she’s “sued everyone in England,” Sienna appears in the tabloids less, but it still happens sometimes. I’m surprised she’s still with Tom Sturridge. Maybe she really has settled down? I’m also interested to see whether Sienna’s new crop of movies will take off and establish her as a serious actress. Directors seem to have faith in her.
Update: Vogue released their interview with Sienna – go here to read. Most of the quotes are pretty similar to the LAT interview.
Photos courtesy of Vogue & WENN
Absolutely right! She was sloppy in her personal life by being with inappropriate men. So of course she’s going to be a hot topic.
Wasn’t Jude law also married when they were fooling around? Or am I mixing up stories? I feel like there was quite a bit of scandal around them dating. #OldSchoolGossip
It’s a bit blurry. I think he officially broke up with Sadie and then dated Sienna but had already met Sienna before he broke up with Sadie… I think more of the scandal was to do with the wife swapping thing between him and Sadie and the guy from Supergrass and Pearl Lowe (Daisy Lowe’s mother).
It’s terrible I know all this but it was in the paper a LOT when I lived in London and I had to read something on the tube 😉
I think they were engaged and he cheated on her with his kids’ nanny.
While she obviously made some questionable decisions in her private life, I’m inclined to be sympathetic. The 20s are hard as hell. You don’t have much life experience, and yet you can suddenly find yourself with all this sexual power. If you’re a woman, men are only too eager to encourage it, and others are only too eager to tear you to shreds. I can’t imagine going through all of that in the public eye. So maybe she was incredibly stupid–even selfish–but I don’t necessarily think she’s disingenuous when she talks about her past.
I’m so tired of people excusing bad behavior because the 20s are hard. So what. At 22 most people are out on their own, supporting themselves, and not having affairs with married people. Most people in their 20’s know that there are certain lines that shouldn’t be crossed just because you have the hots for someone. It’s called being adult and exhibiting self control. Either Ms. Miller is lying to herself or lying to others about her past since her wreck of a personal life during that time period is well known.
Thank you so much for this comment. It reminds me of when people who cheat justify their actions by saying “oh but we were so in love we didn’t have a choice!” No. No no no no no. You ALWAYS have the choice NOT to sleep with someone.
How sad is it that she’s basically saying that he hooha was overriding her brain when when was in her twenties at the expense of other people’s children. Just an excuse for selfish immature behavior IMO.
Haha you guys are SO boring. I’d rather be the entertaining one that the ‘together’ one. Live yo life!
I have to disagree with you on that one @flotsamrose. I’m in my 20s and that is surely not happening. I like to think I have my shit together. I moved out of home to another whole country by myself and I’m trying to give myself some proper life experience in my work. I think Miller struggles because she knowingly did stupid things (whilst living in the public eye) She created her own career stumbling block. The best she can do is acknowledge it, pull her head in and work hard…and she seems to be doing that
Ms. Miller struggles in Hollywood because she isn’t a very good actress who also has to overcome her “tabloid persona” and the fact that she kept having affairs with married men who have children. This isn’t slut shaming, it’s stating what is known and acknowledging the fact that such actions can impact a career. Just as Mr. Law and Mr. Getty are viewed as weak. It is what it is.
She’s not the greatest actress ,but imo she’s a good actress. She was very good in Factory girl and Layer cake.
I think she is a good actress also, she was good as Edie Sedgewick, she did a good job in the role.
i agree its not like she is the next Meryl Streep who got sabotaged by made up stories. no, she cant act and did all those things for real. she’ll have to deal with the consquences of her actions.
I thought she was wretched in Factory Girl.
I feel like if she were an amazing actress or had had a big break out role, she would have weathered all the personal stuff better. I only remember seeing her in a few things and she was ok but didn’t have that special presence on screen.
She is really quite bland as an actress and frankly overrated as a ‘glamour’ figure whenever her publicists use that angle to present her to the public. She has no charisma and her foolish behaviour has insured that she lacks mystery to intrigue the public. If she’s real, real, REAL lucky, she’ll get a major part when she’s not the hot young thing and will actually do well in it.
She only had herself to blame for the car crash that her life and career took, thou she LOVED the attention from the paps and it was a well known fact that she (and her publicist) actively courted it. She only started suing when it started to affect her ability to get good jobs as no one really wanted to hire a party girl who had more men than hot dinners. She was too immature to handle the party lifestyle of Hollywood.
She seems to have grown up so all the best going forward.
I read Lainey’s encounter with her back when she was the IT GIRL…omfg. She was so thirsty, it made me wince.
http://www.laineygossip.com/Sienna-Miller-Attention-whore-at-Burger-King/5659
What the bottom barrel options is with Vogue?
Look, Vogue is supposed to be refined, the aspiration, the elite, the pinnacle… And they have the same panderingly low, cheap tabloid attention-junkies as well, In Touch, Daily Mail, Us weekly and the enquirer. Losers.
I do not want to be like Ms. Miller or the Kardashians. I am exhausted of them and don’t want to buy or read of them.
Agree. I miss models on the covers and I’m not talking about Cara Delawhatever or Kendull Jenner. Too tabloidy for me. Think it’s time
for Anna Wintour to step back. I’ll never buy Vogue again because of
her poor choices.
The September Issue with Karlie Kloss, Joan Smalls, Cara Delevigne was the worst selling September issue in recent Vogue history
wwd.com
US Vogue September 2008-Keira Knightley : 559,000 copies
US Vogue September 2010 – Halle Berry: 559,000 copies
US Vogue September 2012 – Lady Gaga: 602,000 copies
US Vogue September 2014 – Multi Models: 359,703 copies
The average American does not have much interest in ‘supermodels’ or ‘instamodels’ and has not for some time
For what its worth Jegende, I’m not American and my opinion matters too.
Just can’t warm up to her, it’s not even about the affairs, okay maybe it is or more specifically the completely remorseless, above the reproach of the peasants, way, she flaunted the Getty affair.
Those two relationshisp were basically centred around cheating which obviously is going to attract (bad) press.
Also, she had NO issues showing off with her married lover Getty by partying, kissing, naked sunbathing and dining all the time under the eyes of the paps. Miller was addicted to the attention up until the point people just got sick of her behaviour and moved on. Then she realised her career was in tatters and now she thinks she can rewrite history. It’s not perception when it was clear as day that she didn’t give a damn about her image when she was (in)famous which made her selfish and cunning just like anybody else in that town. The phone hacking, no matter how horrible that must have been for her, only proved that even more.
Sorry girl, but some people will never forget your antics.
And she can thank her lucky stars that Wintour, for some odd reason, allowed her to pose for Vogue. SM forgets that after the ‘The September Issue’ controversy, she was quick to make up with AW and be BFFs again. She’s been a fashion darling and that’s what kept her relevant too because the parts sure as hell didn’t when her personal life eclipsed her professional life. She’s basically breadpudding with eyes and she got all these chances so just hush and move on.
I loved the ‘september issue’ when Sienna opens the curtains and is dressed in that white fluffy-whatever-the-hell-that-was-dress and Anna’s face is priceless lmao just thinking about it. 🙂
Is she a good enough actress to justify this kind of career resurgence? I have seen a few of her movies and found her utterly forgettable. Perhaps she found some gravitas.
Tom looks like her son, not that she looks old, but he just looks ‘wrong’ with her-anyone else??
Maybe she should start staying out of the sun: there’s premature aging for you.
Just a reminder: Angelina Jolie exhibited the same tabloid tendencies but seems to get a pass. Not just Brad Pitt, either. Billy Bob was engaged to Laura Dern when he and Jolie eloped. She was still married to Jonny Lee Miller when she dated Timothy Hutton. I’m not saying Sienna is a good role model, but I hate when we apply different standards to celebs based on who we like more. A crappy person is a crappy person, no matter what they do for PR.
Even if you believe Jolie ‘homewrecked’ Pitt’s marriage and BBT’s relationship then you still can’t compare. Miller FLAUNTED the relationships and she couldn’t get enough of the attention. She never got into real serious relationships (and the hacking proved how callous she was) and she sure as hell didn’t change her attitude. And the men were dogs too, basically the worst.
Totally different from Jolie’s relationships that were very much real and about love and usually ended in marriage.
Also, Jolie walked away from a bad relationship and worked on herself. She then became a mom and changed even more. Miller didn’t change until she met Sturridge and she still doesn’t seem to acknowledge that it wasn’t the press but her behaviour that ruined her career.
Lastly, all of Jolie’s partners have said there was no cheating involved whereas Miller is a confirmed cheater.
Laura Dern begs to differ:
At the time, these two eccentric thespians seemed like kindred spirits. The only problem was that while they met, Billy Bob was already engaged. Thornton was set to marry Enlightened star Laura Dern, but broke it off as soon as he and Jolie hit it off. Commenting on the situation, Dern’s quoted as saying, “I left our home to go and make a movie and while I was away, my boyfriend got married and I never heard from him again.”
Also, by that logic, (the “ended in marriage” bit) Tori Spelling and LeAnn Rimes should get passes.
Sorry, nope. Split someone up? Home wrecker. Period.
With Sienna it wasn’t necessarily the cheating so much as the fact that Getty had a wife and 4 children and was a very publicly carrying on that affair. It completely ruined his career as well.
Yeah and Dern also claimed they were engaged and that turned out to be a lie too.
Family of Dern have said that BBT broke it off weeks before starting with Jolie. Jolie said ‘the situation wasn’t available’ when shooting Pushing Tin implying that when he was with Dern, nothing happened between them. They kept contact afterwards but not that much besides business functions: http://www.angelfire.com/dc/lia/ajus.html
BBT himself said (when Dern was giving quotes about the break-up & cheating) that it was over.
They were quite open about how it all went down.
Dern however, has had overlap herself with two relationships, one being the marriage of BBT and the other one was Ben Harper. Their children were only 1 month apart I think (very close together either way!). Nobody brings that up though.
Well then Laura Dern’s a homewrecker too since Ben Harper was married, with children, to his first wife when they took up together. Marriages are almost always more complicated than those on the outside know. But happy marriages don’t end over another person. My natural father (who was a Scott Peterson type) had double lives and actually got engaged to another woman while married to my mother–who thought the marriage was intact if not blissful. (He actually took my mom’s engagement ring, yelled at her for losing it, filed a false insurance claim and then used it to propose to his girlfriend) Now was his ‘fiancee’ a homewrecker? No, that was my natural father.
My stepfather, who my mom married when I was young, was separated when they met. His wife, who was addicted to pills and booze and mentally unstable, would periodically leave him and move back with her parents. She would leave him with all their kids. He finally had enough and said if she left again, that was it. She did and it was. Some months later he started dating my Mom. His estranged spouse returned, pulled a guilt trip over the kids ‘they need an intact home, etc’ and convinced him to return. Practically as soon as he did, she threw him out and filed for divorce on grounds of his cheating.
Um, I think that you would have to ask the Laura Derns of these situations to get a true idea of whether there was cheating. For the guys to say that there was no cheating is just kind of funny since Laura Dern found out from news reports that her fiancé married Jolie. You really can’t “FLAUNT” more than that. I also vaguely remember that Aniston thought it was cheating. Just because she adopts kids and does charity work doesn’t mean that Jolie hasn’t engaged in cheating. She’s not a saint.
I agree!
They were done, BBT finished it and he (and her family) spoke publicly about it.
Dern btw, is a serial ‘homewrecker’ herself so she got a taste of her own medicine if you believe her side of the story!
By pretty much all accounts, Aniston and Pitt were done when he and Jolie got together. And in fact Aniston has never once publicly referred toBrad as a cheater, while she has criticized how he handled his and Jolie’s relationship. And going way back, Laura Dern was furious at the breakup of her and BBT’s relationship, tthought that three some BBT and Dern are probably the worst when it came to fidelity and respecting the boundaries of others’ relationships.
@Bridget
That’s the thing I don’t like about Jennifer. Jennifer was a grown woman in her mid thirties, and was trashing Angelina for being ‘the other woman’ THREE years after her separation (i.e. “Uncool” comment, “Consider the source”, “something happened”, name off all of said woman’s kids)—fine. Cool. Something like that happens, I don’t blame someone for being pissed.
But every time Jennifer talked about Brad i.e. the guy who she was claiming cheated on her (by dint of how you talk about his now partner), she was saying stuff like “He’s great.”, “I’m so proud of him and all of his achievements.”, “I congratulate him on his babies”, and “our break up was so amicable, Brad did nothing to hurt me, and we are better for it”, AND “nothing and no one got between our decision to divorce”……this was three years after she was separated.
Most normal, level headed women I know, would respond with (when asked about their ex who cheated on them)–“I hope he’s happy with his choices, I’m happy with mine.”. She MIGHT say something nice about him and the side piece IF they had kids together, and he and the side piece are still together. If not, then she just trashes both of them. I’ve never seen someone outright trash the side piece, and then says that the ex did nothing wrong in the ending of their marriage. Never.
She was so cute, what happened? Haven’t seen her in a long time. Looks so different (apart from baby and age), too many bad relationships?
I think she liked all the attention she got when she first got with Jude Law, whether she then courted the paps with her increasingly bizarre “boyfriend” choices, well I couldn’t possibly comment …………………
I remember an article Lainey wrote a few years ago about waiting in an airport lounge somewhere – maybe Heathrow or Cannes – and who should show up but Sienna and her mother. Sienna looked around, saw that only Lainey and her crew were there and weren’t going to start papping her, so she proceeded to whip out her mobile, talking LOUDLY, swearing, pacing back and forth, running her hands through her hair, really putting on a show and attracting attention to herself. Lainey thought it was hilariously obvious, and it goes to show that she is an unremitting famewhore who revelled in all the press she was getting, no matter how negative, despite her protestations otherwise.
Glad she figured it out. Her interview was quite good actually. Sienna was always a solid actress. She just fell into the wrong guy at the wrong time. I never knew so many judged her for this since it was her fiancé that cheated on her. She’s gotten much more blow back than the men. Always the same scenario. She’s mature in her 30s. Settled.
She also didn’t do herself any favors when she gained a reputation for being a loose cannon. There was all kinds of bad publicity when she called Pittsburgh ‘Shitsburg’ in Rolling Stone after filming there–or were they still filming–and had to go on an apology tour. Either way, it seemed, in 2006, to get the bad PR train going.
Good! People used to compare her to Kate Bosworth, etc b/c Siena is a strong fashion presence [she does have great style], but she’s also a good actress. Glad she’s finally getting screen time b/c I like her work; she’s beautiful but also has a strong presence on screen, IMO.
I could never understand how she ended up with Sturridge and I’m amazed that he helped to instrument her comeback…You know, his names keeps popping up in interviews of many actors, such as Redmayne, Carrey Milligan, Kristen Stewart etc – and they all talk of him as a very loyal person, a good friend. I just never thought that Sienna would need a great friend…Perhaps we all do.