Sienna: New Movie's A Small Dig At Tabs
In her new movie "Interview," British actress Sienna Miller plays a pop star who tangles with a journalist assigned to write about her.
In some ways, the film imitates a not-so-great part of her life.
"I think it's an interesting social study, the level that people will go to destroy (each other)," she told TheShowBuzz.com Tuesday. "It's a small sort of dig at tabloid journalism."
The 25-year-old actress says that often reporters approach an interview with her based on the image of her she says is created by gossip.
"I have people who deliberately don't take me seriously in any way and believe what they read in the tabloids — I don't read them so I don't know but I imagine they're horrendous — and therefore come in and there's no respect or dignity," she said. "They just want to know is this true, is this true, where'd you get that top? The stuff that I really don't think about."
The world of tabloids is just like high school — once you've earned a reputation of class tramp it's hard to shake the label. The latest gossip surrounding the actress is accusations she broke up the relationship between Diddy and his longtime model girlfriend Kim Porter. Both Miller and Diddy deny that they are anything more than good friends.
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Miller is amazed at the gossip about "the amount of people I've supposedly slept with regardless of the fact that I've been in back-to-back relationships since I was 19. People believe that and that's the perception that the tabloids want to create about me and that's absolutely couldn't be farther away from who I really am."
Her way of coping is to just focus on her acting, and ignore the gossip.
"It's very frustrating, so now I just don't read it," she said. "At the end of the day all I can do is try and do good work and interesting work and do my best. I'm not late for work, I've never missed a day's work and that's what counts."
Steve Buscemi who directed and executive produced "Interview," also stars in the movie as the hard news journalist tapped to write a fluff piece about Miller's character. He doesn't think media interest in Miller's personal life helps his film.
"She lives her life and then she has her work, but the media is really interested in her personal life so that becomes the focus and I do find that distracting," he said. "People have asked me, 'Is this good for the film, that Sienna has her own tabloid interest?' I don't think that's necessarily true. I think it's distracting."
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Still, Miller isn't going to change her behavior, or her openness with the press, because of the interest in her personal life.
"I refuse to conform," she said. "I don't want to go in and be 'the actress' because it's boring for you and it's boring for me and I am who I am, I'm not afraid to be who I am. I work very hard and what I do with my spare time is up to me. I'm not going to change … I'd be miserable if I'm not going to be myself."
Sienna Miller has appeared in "Factory Girl," "Casanova" and "Layer Cake." Her new movie, "Interview," opens this Friday.
By Judy Faber