Sienna Miller is the cover girl for the August issue of Nylon Magazine. I don’t think much about the cover shot, or of the accompanying pics from the whole shoot (Here’s Nylon’s slideshow). It looks like Nylon decided they didn’t want to airbrush Sienna into oblivion, so they just put some kind of extremely bright lighting on her. It washes her out in a lot of the pics, but there’s one photo where she doesn’t look washed out, she just looks beat. Of course, the lighting in that picture is normal. So that’s probably what Sienna looks like naturally – beat, tired and sun damaged.
The site has an excerpt from the cover interview, and two pieces caught my attention. First, the obvious one: “I don’t want people analyzing the shape of my muff!” Easy-peasy, Sienna. If you don’t want muff-analysis, keep your muff covered. Sometimes the easiest solutions are the hardest to think of, I know. The second quote that caught my attention was when Sienna is talking about her April “awareness-raising” trip to the Congo (DRC). Sienna says about the trip, “If I’d done it for publicity, I would have taken a photographer… I’m not just lending my name to it. We went to a war zone, we lived in camps.” Here’s more:
On paparazzi assault: “I was doing a scene for this film, Hippie Hippie Shake [out later this year], where we all had to get naked and swim in this lake… And a photographer snuck onto the set and hid in a bush all night and got photos of me naked and put it on the cover of the News of the World. Me, full-frontal naked. I don’t want to be naked on the cover of a Sunday newspaper! I don’t! I don’t want people analyzing the shape of my muff!”
On choosing G.I. Joe over another indie project: “It’s really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!… certain really great directors have wanted to do films with me, but unless you’ve had a film that’s opened with a certain amount of money, you’re not bankable to studios… if you want to make amazing, artistic films, you’ve got to have some sort of box office credibility, which I don’t have.”
On her recent mission to the Congo: “If I’d done it for publicity, I would have taken a photographer… I’m not just lending my name to it. We went to a war zone, we lived in camps. I would like to see those [detractors] doing the journey we did… I basically realized that I was so resentful for so long about the state of my celebrity, but I wanted to turn it around and do something good.”
On what you should say if you meet her when she moves to NYC: “I’ll be in a customs line and the guy will be like, ‘Hey, can’t wait for GI Joe!’ And I’ll be like, ‘Woo!’
[From Nylon]
For those who checked the post from April, I’d like to make three points. First, Sienna did go into the DRC’s refugee camps and war zone briefly, but the first part of her “awareness-raising” blog was about the luxury hotels she was staying in and all of the wine she was drinking. I don’t know why other people were criticizing her, but that’s why I was. She sounded like a vapid dilettante blogging about her cool African vacation rather than a young woman trying to understand more about the world and challenge herself.
Second point: she didn’t take a cameraman or a photographer? Then who was the guy claiming to be “David Serota, cinematographer” who had a hissy fit about us calling Sienna out for her wine-soaked blogging? Go back to the original post if you don’t believe me, he commented twice. He was most likely one of Sienna’s PR lackeys who’s paid to comment about her.
Third point: Sienna says, “I basically realized that I was so resentful for so long about the state of my celebrity.” Puh-lease. She was upset that people kept on criticizing her for openly carrying on an affair with a married man for more than a year, and attempted to change the subject with one quick trip to the DRC. Notice she hasn’t stuck with it? No goodwill ambassadorships, no honorary chairwomanships to a well-meaning charity, no plans to return. It was purely a public relations trip designed to change Sienna’s image. And in my mind, it failed. That failure also denigrates the work many celebrities do for genuine, serious, well-intentioned reasons. So Sienna hurt more than herself.
Photos thanks to CoverAwards and NylonMag
uhhh… ‘state of my celebrity’… you’ve got to be kidding me!? Is she that dense that she thinks she is such an importatn celebrity?! I know a lot of women who are white trash whores—really, we are calling that celebrity now? This b*tch needs to disappear for a good 3 years before her reputation is fixed if the only thing she plans to do is go on a trip to Congo and get wasted. Refuckingdiculous.
I have absolutely no idea who Sienna Miller is, and I’m not exaggerating even a little. Have never heard her name in all my life. And I like to think I keep pretty current, too.
I can’t help it, I love her.
Kaiser you clearly just have a grudge against Sienna, are you jealous? I agree the photos look poor but that is the magazines and photographers fault. As for going to the Congo, the UN are reluctant to send people its so bad there now so yes I do applaud a white girl travelling there – You need to read up about the counrty, your knowledge is poor!
I guess she realized there’s room for only one Angelina Jolie.
Well, when she says “people”, she means women. Considering her story, it’s hard to believe that she has problems with men analyzing her muff…
Sienna, just a reminder: your “state of celebrity”= dating Jude Law/some married guy. No one ever saw your stinking movies. And I don’t think anyone ever will.
Seeing as I’m all Team Sienna, I just thought I’d pop by again! ‘Alfie’ wasn’t exactly a cinematic masterpiece but I do really rate ‘Interview’ with her and Steve Buscemi.
As a long time “Muff Analyzer” I would give her a 7.8. Sorry, Sienna, but your form is a bit off, and you really need to work a bit more on your technique.
Some people are letting their personal feelings about Sienna’s private life get into their commentary/reporting.
Kaiser, I read this interview too and I have to say I don’t see it the way you do. What’s obnoxious about a girl saying she doesn’t want her muff splashed around in newspapers?? I think that’s a very, very fair statement. She didn’t bad mouth the photographer or anything, all she did was explain her perspective. Which is totally fair in my eyes! (And I might add in the court of law, she won her lawsuit against the photographer and the newspaper)
I thought her comments about lacking box office status were endearing. “I was having to pay people to see my movies.” She’s basically admitting she is fodder for tabloids and that has overwhelmed her films.
This interview isn’t bad. I don’t undestand all the Sienna bashing. And even though the photos are crap, Sienna is a very very beautiful girl. I would kill to look like her! Great smile, great eyes, great nose, great hair, great figure – she’s got it in spades.
Ugh! When will women like her STFU?
Elisabetta – I actually thought the muff part of the interview was funny, and I wasn’t bashing her for that. It’s the whole awareness raising stuff that really bothered me.
Wench – I just saw Interview for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and I was impressed with her performance. She was very layered in that, and I give her credit for being a half-decent actress, although she sucks as a person.
Uh, not much else there to ANALYZE really, is there ?? The comatose acting and hippie clothes and fuorcking around on everybody is boring.
She’s physically perfect and she doesn’t take herself seriously, what more do you want?
Maybe people wouldn’t analyze her muff if she kept it covered. Silly girl.
ditto gg
So Sienna doesn’t want people analyzing the shape of her muff splashed all over the newspapers, but she doesn’t mind if it’s in a movie? Idiot.
She is one of the stupidest and most self centered vile brats that ever walked the planet. Please, girl, just STFU!
If she doesn’t want people analyzing her private parts, then why is she even talking about it in the first place? That’s like wearing a bright yellow shirt and saying that you don’t want people to look at you. She just needs to learn to shut up or think before she opens her mouth. She says one thing and then does another, and then gets upset when people call her out on her hypocrisy.
The problem with her box office status is her. Does she really think that compliments about her “style and beauty” make it okay for her to have a very public affair with a married man and rub it in his wife’s face? Since the Vogue interview didn’t do much to redeem her career/image(all beause she was stupid enough to play the victim and then pop up in public with the married man 1 week following the release of the interview), she thought that she would try again with this interview from Nylon. SM “vacationing/dining” and engaging in pda with the still very married man under the pretense that they are “just friends” in 3,2,1.
If she was as serious about the Congo trip/had learned anything from this trip like she wants us to believe, she a)most certainly wouldn’t continue to depict herself as the victim time after time(she saw victims of war, so she knows what an insult playing a victim every week would be to the real victims); b)would have shown more consideration to RG and her 4 kids since she is concerned about the plight of women and children (Unless what she meant was that she is only concerned about the plight of women and children ONLY if they are not attached to the married man she is currently sleeping with.); and c)wouldn’t focus on herself, but rather the men and women who spend more than just ONE WEEK in the Congo (So she spent a WEEK in the Congo, that was just one less week that she spent flaunting her affair with another woman’s husband and walking through airports because she cares so much for the environment).
The state of her celebrity is in the condition that it is because of her bad behavior and poor decisions. If she wanted to turn it around to do something good, she wouldn’t still be having such a public affair with a still very married man and spreading lies about his wife. She will have credibility when she owns up to her bad behavior, stops flaunting her affair with a man who won’t even divorce his wife, stops spreading lies about the married man’s wife to justify her actions with the woman’s husband, stops trying to push the notion that she is suffering more than the married man’s wife and kids/that they are not suffering at all, and stops trying to sell her affair as something cute or romantic.
The “I won him” smirk doesn’t work in her favor either. She looks like the cat who swallowed the canary. If she wants box office appeal, she needs to stop gloating over the fact that she is sleeping with a relapsed alcoholic who doesn’t give a care about how his wife and kids are handling this affair.
Why do those who defend SM always think that people dislike her because they are either jealous or have a grudge against her? In the real world, ADULTS are responsible for their own actions and being “pretty or wearing pretty clothes” doesn’t exempt one from the consequences of their actions. If she is bold enough to keep pulling these “Me, me, me Look at me” stunts, then she should be bold enough to deal with the outcome. It was stupid to whine about how she was hurt by JL public affair in the Vogue Interview and then show up in public kissing and sticking her tongue in the married man’s ear on Father’s Day. It was stupid to berate JL nanny for sleeping with JL and then years later have a very public affair with the married man,expecting everyone to turn a blind eye simply because she was the other woman. It’s a waste of time to keep blaming others for her bad behavior.
I like sienna Miller.
and Kaiser all a gotta
say is, kittys got claws.
you guys are vicious with
this lady.
No one is as vicious than Sienna Miller. Why should anyone respect SM when she disrespects other women and then does everything in power to demean another women to justify her actions with the woman’s husband? SM criticizes JL for cheating on her(see Vogue interview), so why shouldn’t she be held by the same standards that she imposes on JL? She berated JL nanny, so why should things be any different for her now that she is the other woman? She complained about there being no sisterhood, and then was “spotted” kissing another sister’s husband. If she is going to set up these standards, then she needs to learn how to follow them.
This is my second visit to this blog. You have done a admirable job.