SIENNA MILLER MESHES INTO FACTORY GIRL

Sienna Miller met family and friends of Edie Sedgwick to become her for Factory Girl.

Sienna Miller took over a year to become the essence of Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl from the way she danced, and laughed, even to the way she smoked. Most of all she wanted to do justice to the woman who famously became Andy Warhol’s muse.

Sienna says she met everyone she possibly could who would give her insight into Edie.

“I researched it for about a year. There was just tons to research. There was tons to read and tons to watch and books and people to meet and that was kind of the best part that you were feel you were kind of like a detective you know meeting all the people that were friends with her. I’ve met everyone from Edie’s brother to her best friend to Andy’s best friends. I mean all these people had such interesting stories. They were really the vibrant 60s characters and that was kind of the best thing for me, was hearing their stories.”

In getting to know Edie, Sienna came to empathize with how she lived her life and ultimately destroyed it. In telling her story truthfully Sienna also had to act out the uncomfortable aspects of her life.

“I think that when you kind of delve into Edie’s history and you see abuse that she suffered as a child and everything. She was just this constantly loving, very vulnerable, very fragile but very sweet and very charismatic girl who just derailed. I mean she was just trying to escape from reality constantly and got heavily into drug addiction and tried to save herself. I mean there were moments that were really vulnerable where I had to do stuff that was really challenging either nudity or the acting that you’re on heroin. You really need to have a safe environment with people you trust and everyone really supported each other. It was a real collaborative process, the whole making of this film.”

Ironically the name of Sienna’s next film is Interview, but has no relation to Andy Warhol’s magazine. She’ll play a soap opera actress interviewed by a former political journalist played by Sopranos star Steve Buscemi who also directs.