Praise from Clint Eastwood on Sniper: “Yeah, he’s quick. I definitely had heard that before I started shooting, so I was, like, ‘I better bring it on the first take.’ But if you want another one, he’ll give you another one. I understand this way of working now — there is something about the first time you say a line that can never really be repeated. Normally, I’m anxious and over-complicated and my process is quite thorough. I would keep going because I very rarely feel satisfied. But somehow with him, he’s so relaxed that you just kind of trust it. On our first day, after we’d shot an emotional scene, I went up to him, ‘I was just thinking, maybe –’ and he was, like, ‘Have a great weekend.’ And as he was walking away he said, ‘You cast the right people,’ and that was the end of the day and I was, like, ‘Whoa.’ So that was kind of a great day — liberating. But then I had a bit of a meltdown.”
On her second act as an actress: “I think it’s narrow-minded. I struggled in Hollywood because people had really strong perceptions of who I was and it was hard to see me as anything other than this persona. I just think I was well known for the wrong things, maybe. My personal life. It got very tabloidly. My phone got ****** and I was in newspapers all the time in London, which is the most vicious city in the world for that kind of attention. Or I was known for being fashionable.”
How she fought that perception: “I sued everyone in England, basically. [Laughs] I have an injunction against paparazzi, so that’s now illegal. I obviously went to court with News of the World and the phone hacking and all of that. I took active steps and worked very hard to have a private life, which I have now had and enjoyed for six years. … So as a result of not having all those photos and not being on social media, I felt I’ve had the space to do my work.”
She tried social media: “I did have Instagram for a week, and it sort of fueled the worst part of my soul. I’d wake up every morning and have more followers and people were, like, ‘Welcome! We love you!’ And I was like, ‘Hee-hee, wow! This is actually fulfilling me!’ But I realized it was filling that part of you that will not ever be filled.”
[From LA Times]
Cele|bitchy | Sienna Miller: ‘I struggled in Hollywood’ because of my ‘tabloidy’ persona