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We heart Sienna Miller’s entire on screen wardrobe in The Girl.
We had a sneak preview of the trailer for The Girl and we heart Sienna’s entire on screen wardrobe.
- Guardian.co.uk
Tippi: My fears that Sienna Miller’s portrayal of me in Hitchcock biopic won’t show how I stood up to legendary director
Alfred Hitchcock became obsessed with her, made her a star and, she says, tried to control her life.
The battles Tippi Hedren fought with the legendary film director are being chronicled in a biopic starring Sienna Miller as the object of Hitchcock’s infatuation.
But although Miss Hedren is an adviser on The Girl, the veteran Hollywood actress has revealed her fear that the BBC film will not show how strong she was in standing up to a man with the power to destroy her career.
Miss Hedren, 82, said: ‘I am thrilled Sienna is playing me. She is terrific for the part. If I have one reservation about the film it is that I worry they will not portray me as as strong a character as I was – and still am. I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock.
‘He was so insistent and obsessive but I was an extremely strong young woman and there is no way he was going to get the better of me.’
Hitchcock’s fascination with Miss Hedren began in 1961 after he saw her in a TV commercial.
At 62, the married director was twice her age.
He directed her in his classic The Birds in 1963 and in Marnie the following year.
Miss Hedren said: ‘I admired Hitch tremendously for his great talent and still do.
‘Yet, at the same time, I loathed him for his off-set behaviour and the way he came on to me sexually.
‘He was a great director – and he destroyed it all by his behaviour when he got me alone.’ She described how, after Marnie, Hitchcock said her career would prosper only if she began sleeping with him.
‘He wanted to possess me completely,’ she said.
‘There were so many wonderful films we could have made together but it was all thrown away because of his mindless lust.
‘I was a highly moral girl. I couldn’t submit to him no matter that he threatened and did ruin my career.’
After Marnie Miss Hedren refused to work with Hitchcock again although she remained contracted to him and her career suffered. London-born Hitchcock died in 1980.
Miss Hedren, the mother of actress Melanie Griffith, now runs a wildlife sanctuary in California.
She will appear at a show called Hitchcock and Hollywood at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon on Saturday.
- dailymail.co.uk
Sienna Miller fears she got “swept up” in Hollywood at the beginning of her career.
The star’s big break came when she appeared in 2004’s Layer Cake, and she went on to feature in movies including Factory Girl, The Edge of Love and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
Sienna isn’t entirely happy with all the career choices she has made. She worries she didn’t think long term when she first became famous and is pleased she took some time out to reassess her life.
“It’s a weird industry, Hollywood. You have all these people pushing you in all sorts of directions and I think, for a while, I got swept up in trying to play this game. So I didn’t work for a bit, which was really nice, and I was lucky to be able to afford not to have to,” she explained to the British edition of Vogue magazine.
“And since then I’ve made a film with Nick Cassavetes, where I play someone with Tourette’s, and I made a film with Rachid Bouchareb about belly dancing, with a crew of nine of us – stealing locations and getting chased out of places and shooting without permits, complete guerrilla filming. I’ve no idea how it will turn out, but I did it for the experience, and to work with someone I really admire.”
Sienna has been shooting The Girl recently, which is a TV movie about director Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hendren. She portrays the lead character in Alfred’s 1963 movie The Birds, with the director seeing her as his muse.
Sienna plays Tippi in The Girl, and has been shooting scenes while pregnant with her first child.
“I’ve no idea what I’ve done in terms of this film,” she laughed. “I was working 15 to 16 hour days, with an eight-hour turnaround, which is just knackering. But then again, it’s not as bad as poor Toby [Jones, who stars as Hitchcock]. He’s got that, plus four hours of prosthetics every morning and then an hour to take it off at the end of each day.”
Have a read of this new interview Tippi Hedren gave to The Independent – she speaks about Sienna and The Girl briefly, and has nice things to say about Miss Miller!
Also check out the photo of Tippi at the source link – you might remember that Sienna was seen wearing a replica of this dress when snapped on set last month.
Tippi Hedren – Hitchcock’s caged bird
Tippi Hedren’s career was destroyed by the British director’s obsession. Yet there was an upside, she tells Geoffrey Macnab
To call Tippi Hedren’s attitude toward Alfred Hitchcock ambivalent would be to understate the case in the extreme. The star of The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964) is due in Croydon next month to introduce an evening of clips and music from Hitch’s films.
She waxes nostalgic about the British director’s favourite composers one moment before describing, in chilling detail, how he sexually harassed her the next.It’s a story that has long since passed into movie lore. Hedren was the glacial blonde who was supposed to take over from Grace Kelly as Hitchcock’s favourite leading lady. He put her under contract and groomed her to be a star but, gradually, became ever more obsessive about her. The portly film-maker in his sixties wanted the actress to sleep with him. When she refused, he kept her under contract on $600 a week, but stopped her from working for almost two years.
“He ruined my career but he didn’t ruin my life,” is how Hedren sums up it up today.
A new BBC film starring Sienna Miller as Hedren and Toby Jones as Hitchcock will be on our screens soon. The Girl, which has been directed by Julian Jarrold, looks at what its writer, Gwyneth Hughes, has called Hitchcock’s “twisted and obsessive love” for Hedren. The title comes from how Hitchcock referred to Hedren when – as she puts it – “I was not in favour”. The film promises to be harrowing in the extreme but has still been made with the 82-year-old Hedren’s full blessing. Sienna Miller, she says, came out to see her at Hedren’s Shambala Preserve wildlife sanctuary. The two women got on famously.
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SOUTH African model Andrea Biondi said locking lips with British actress Sienna Miller was the best kiss of his career.
The pair hummed songs after sharing a kiss in a love scene of the 1950s drama The Girl, which is being filmed at locations around Cape Town.
Biondi’s modelling portfolio includes a cover shoot for Men’s Health magazine.
Said raven-haired Biondi: “The kissing scene with Sienna was amazing and, from a professional point of view, it was the best kiss ever.
“Sienna is a lovely, humble person, a regular girl and a wonderful actress. Working with her was real easy. We both love [UK band] The Smiths and ended up singing the songs together.”
An HBO and BBC co-production, The Girl chronicles filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessive relationship with actress Tippi Hedren, played by Miller.
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Sienna is back to work again! She was snapped filming The Girl in South Africa earlier this week, looking tres glamourous in a floorlength white gown. I can’t wait to see this movie, and am excited to see more of her costumes for the project. I’ve added a few photos from this sighting to our Gallery for you.
OrlandoWeekly.com have also listed The Girl as one of their top international titles to look out for in 2012.
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