![]() I really must need help if this is what I enjoy doing!” she adds with a laugh. “It made me think, remember and put myself back in that position. Miller recounts what happened when they filmed the scene in which James confesses the affair to Sophie: “I had a mic on my chest, and there’s a heartbeat that comes in-it was my actual heartbeat, getting faster and faster, being picked up by the monitor.” It may have been unintended, but it was ultimately (and unsurprisingly) kept in. I know that sounds weird-you’d think it would be deeply unpleasant to sit in that space.” And so, in a kind of twisted-tourism sense, I wanted to see how it would feel to react differently. her way of dealing with what’s thrown at her is the absolute antithesis of what my way is. “I’ve experienced some of the things that she experiences,” she says. She says the most interesting thing about her character is that it was familiar terrain. ![]() But more than that, it’s a (painfully) perfect vehicle for Miller, who also saw her private life become overwhelmingly public. The six-part series couldn’t be more timely it deals not only with consent but also the toxic privilege that so many people in politics have. Miller plays Sophie Whitehouse, an MP’s wife whose world is upended after her husband, James (Rupert Friend), is accused of rape by a colleague with whom he’d had an affair. ![]() One of the reasons this era is at the surface again is Miller’s latest project: Netflix’s adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s hit novel Anatomy of a Scandal. It’s a period of her life she calls “frenzied,” a time when she “couldn’t see a way out of anything just one foot in front of the other.” In the early 2000s, a period of insane celebrity-tabloid culture, a very different kind of storm raged-one that was not as brief but was just as brutal. ( Layer Cake and Alfie were both released in 2004.) After an early career as a model and having had a few small TV parts, Miller fell in love with her Alfie co-star (and very famous man) Jude Law-and subsequently fell into fame.Īnd that’s the other thing with Sienna Miller: As much as she is focused on her life today as a 40-yearold mother to nine-year-old Marlowe and as an actor with two decades of work behind her, our conversation is inexorably tugged back into the past. At a glance, it could be 2003 again, when 21-year-old Miller was in every magazine and newspaper, headlining every celebrity-style page-and this was before her first big film roles. Her hair is pulled back in a messy bun, and her skin is so clean it could squeak. She bounds through the door in a white T-shirt, weathered blue jeans and layered gold jewellery. But by the time I meet Miller, the storm has passed. It was brief and brutal-trees were wrenched up by their roots, and riverbanks burst. The night before, Storm Franklin had struck the U.K. ![]() She can’t help but go deep, even when she isn’t sure if she should. This, I discover after two meetings, is how it goes with Sienna Miller. We’re only minutes into our conversation at a hotel bar in central London, England, but we are already deconstructing the actor’s trauma-inspired dreams. “It sums up absolutely everything about what I was experiencing- nothing belonged to me at all.” Each one was one of my memories, and people could go and suck the chocolate off and just leave the raisin.” She pauses and looks at me. “And one of the rides, or experiences, was a jar of chocolate-covered raisins. Sienna Miller is telling me about a dream she had a few years ago. ![]()
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