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Sienna Miller on Andy Warhol’s Work: Miller says she was a fan of certain parts of Warhol’s work prior to working on Factory Girl. “I think I like what it represents and, having really thought about it, I think he’s an absolute genius. He was so ahead of his time. A lot of them were. With the way that he made his movies, putting the microphone in and making it real… He just had real people having real conversations. Flash forward to us now, and our culture and our generation is obsessed with reality TV - but he was doing it in 1965. This man was just so forward-thinking. And the mockery of America, with the Campbell soup cans, throwing it back in its face, I think that’s really interesting stuff.
I prefer other artists, personally, but I really appreciate what he was doing. I wouldn’t mind having a Marilyn in my house, to be honest.”
On Working with Guy Pearce: “We actually went to New York in September and October, and we sat and went through the script with the director, George [Hickenlooper], and really re-wrote some of our stuff and read it out loud. We had a couple of nights where we’d put on the make-up and run around the hotel room, being them a bit. And then I got back to London and Guy would call me every now and then, going, ‘Edie, it’s Andy,’ and we’d have this conversations, just because it was so much fun. We really adored each other. We got on really well, which is great, and I think important. But on the days where the relationship wasn’t so good, we wouldn’t really talk. We did it as much as we could and then, at the end of the day, we’d be like, ‘I’m sorry. I love you.’”
Miller and Pearce would sometimes stay in character all day long. “We’d just been doing it for so long and, because it was a biopic and they are real people, I just felt - and I think he did too - a huge responsibility to do it as best we could. And also we were having fun. We were all in the clothes and we looked like them. We didn’t do it religiously. But I think it’s hard if you’re doing a scene where you have to hate each other, to be like, ‘I love you.’ You want to keep a little bit of tension.”
Guy Pearce has hours of footage of he and Miller goofing off in character as they prepared to film The Factory Girl. “We would just be in my room and I would put on some eyelashes and he’d paint his nails black. I think he has a video of us. He used to film everything. Guy filmed everything because Andy used to film everything. He has hours and hours and hours, and days of footage from all of us on set that I think would be a brilliant film, in itself.”
Edie Sedgwick’s Fashion Sense and Personal Style: “I haven’t gotten to keep any of the clothes yet. That’s something I’m still working on. But, I love ‘60's style. She had such a unique sense of style, and really accidentally came upon it. She used to do these jazz/ballet work-outs, and she’d wear her leotards with her black tights, and then she couldn’t be bothered to change, so she’d just put a coat over it, and it caught on and became this huge trend. It was sort of an inadvertent thing that happened. But, she had extraordinary clothes - beautiful clothes.”
Up Next – A Role in Stardust: Miller reunited with her Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn for Stardust. “He just phoned me up, out of the blue, and said, ‘Listen, there’s this little part in my new film. Will you come and do it?’ And I wasn’t working so I said, ‘Sure.’ I only worked on it for two weeks, and I play this horrible girl. Well she’s not that bad, but she’s the catalyst for why Charlie Cox’s character - who I had also worked with on Casanova, so it was a no-brainer to do it… She decides that she wants a shooting star and she makes him go across into the Wonderland to get it. She’s quite bossy and demanding and not very warm. But it was a cameo.”
Miller didn’t get in on any of the big special effects scene. “No. I was in a scene with Robert De Niro where he was over the other side and I was supposed to look at him. And, of course, I held the look for about an hour, trying to make the most out of it. But, no. No special effects.”
