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DECEMBER 2022 ISSUE
“What People Thought Of Me Was So Loud That I Believed It”: Sienna Miller On The “Chaos” Of Her Early Fame – And Her Stunning Second Chapter
It’s been a year of personal landmarks for Sienna Miller – not to mention her ascension to the heights of prestige television, as she tells Olivia Marks in the December 2022 issue of British Vogue.
Sienna Miller has overslept. I arrive at the kitchen door of her 16th-century cottage, nestled down a bucolic Buckinghamshire lane, during a summer downpour one Thursday morning, to be greeted by a pyjama-clad Miller and a scene of gentle domestic chaos so quintessentially English it veers on parody.
Next to the yellow roses, slung in a green ceramic jug on the large wooden table, is a mixing bowl with a whisk in – I’ve interrupted Miller making crepes (the first is scraped into the bin) for her 10-year-old daughter, Marlowe, who is in the next room watching cartoons. Two (or is it three?) dogs rush in and out. A Royal Mail postman comes down the garden path with a parcel. And, through it all, Miller is busily chatting chatting chatting in her gently cut-glass tones: apologising for not being ready; asking me how I’d like my tea – little cup or one of those big ones that need two hands? – and recounting the story of giving birth to “Mar” (I’m eight and a half months pregnant, a walking conversation starter). It took a cool 27 hours. Nutella goes on the crepe, a straw is punched through a juice carton, and off she rushes upstairs to pop a bra on and brush her teeth.
We all feel like we know Sienna, don’t we? She has been a fixture on screens, in fashion magazines – and on newspaper front pages – for the past two decades. And, if you hadn’t noticed, there is now something of a Siennasance afoot. The 40-year-old actor has finally made her way into the world of prestige TV, a little later perhaps than some of her peers. There’s something of the old school about Miller, with her allergy to social media, who, up until now, has “slightly clung” to independent cinema that “no one sees”. “And it’s kind of devastating,” she says, back in the kitchen and curled into a sheepskin-lined chair. The stripy pyjama bottoms have been replaced by pale blue jeans and a caramel-coloured vest top a shade or two lighter than her deep summer tan. “It’s depressing, all that work. So I’m quite enjoying doing shows that everybody sees. There’s a reward in that.”
And many millions did indeed watch her first proper foray into the world of streaming in Anatomy of a Scandal (it became Netflix’s number one English language series back in April). Miller played Sophie Whitehouse, a Tory MP’s wife, in a tale of betrayal and gaslighting. Then came her turn as American actor Lark in Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani’s clever Chivalry, a rumination on the knotty issues of power and consent in the film industry post #MeToo. Next, she will star in Apple’s Extrapolations, a climate change drama boasting a stellar cast: Marion Cotillard, Gemma Chan, Tahar Rahim, David Schwimmer to name but a few. Oh, and Meryl Streep, who plays Miller’s mother. “I’ve peaked, I’ve ticked every box,” says Sienna with a smile.
The anthology drama series follows multiple stories of how the climate crisis will have impacted our work, world and personal lives in the near future. Miller plays a scientist in the year 2046 tasked with studying the last ever humpback whale. “We’ve got to a place where we can translate whale song into language so we can communicate,” she explains. “And I’m dealing with a billionaire who’s been investing in what people assume is a kind of anti-extinction programme.” Needless to say, there’s something much darker going on behind the scenes. (Or, as Miller puts it, “The whale is getting completely f**ked over.”)
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