When Andy met Edie, life imitated art
Sienna plays Edie Sedgewick Director: George Hickenlooper Writer: Aaron Richard Golub, Captain Mauzner Genre: Biography, Drama Filming: Filmed in Louisiana, USA from December 2005 to February 2006. Reshoots took place in July and November 2006 Runtime: 1hr 27mins Co-stars: Hayden Christensen (Billy Quinn), Guy Pearce (Andy Warhol), Mena Suvari (Richie Berlin), Madeleine Poirrier (Young Edie Sedgwick), Brian Bell (Lou Reed), Jimmy Fallon (Chuck Wein) |
The year is 1965, and Edie Sedgwick is living every young girl’s dream. Rich, ambitious
and breathtakingly beautiful, Edie’s life changes forever when she meets Andy Warhol,
New York’s most famous artist, and the man who will transform this trust fund baby into
the Big Apple’s most dazzling Superstar.
At the center of this exciting and decadent new world is The Factory, Warhol’s downtown loft,
a place where musicians, artists, actors and all types of misfits gather to create art and
movies during the day, and to throw fabulous parties at night. It is here that Edie takes
her place at Andy’s side as the Factory’s most alluring and irresistible Superstar.
Edie has the world at her feet. Every woman wants to be her. Every man wants to be with her.
But unable to find the love she craves from Andy and The Factory Edie turns to the “voice of
a generation” singer-songwriter Danny Quinn, a captivating and talented musician who represents
everything that Andy is not - where Andy is all cool surfaces, Danny burns with the fire of
his convictions. Danny pushes Edie to free herself from Andy, who has been using her in his
movies but never paying her. Edie quickly falls for Danny, but every affair has its price…
Warhol is deeply stung by the revelation of Edie’s affair, and punishes her for her unfaithfulness
by banishing her from the Factory. As her world collapses, Danny abandons her too. All alone,
Edie struggles to hold herself together as the pressures of fame and the cost of the fast life
turn her world from glamour to tragedy.
A fragile shooting star who dazzled the world with her beauty, style, glamour and wealth, Edie Sedgwick
was one of the great pop icons of the 1960’s. This is her story.
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| International Release Dates |
USA - February 2nd 2007 (limited)
USA - February 9th 2007 (wide)
UK - March 16th 2007
| Media |
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| Sienna Says |
• “Playing somebody who really existed is challenging. You want to do it justice because I think you realize that you’re the one that’s carrying the mantle on. Accent, her voice, vocal physicalities, the way she smoked, the way she talked. Being able to be destructive but also have an audience sympathize with you. Not being seen as some drug addict, but actually to make people feel that she’s a drug addict as a result of a very tortured life - a lot. I’m terrified.”
• [on research] “It ’s fascinating. …Even if this film is terrible, the experience of researching it has been so fascinating. I was with her husband, Michael Post, in Santa Barbara last week and have been hanging out with the people from The Factory that are still alive. Brigid Berlin and Danny Fields and all these incredible, real ‘60s characters. There’s an awful lot of perks. I’m going to Pittsburgh this weekend to the Warhol museum. Guy Pearce is playing Andy Warhol and he’s fantastic. I think he’s going to do a great job. I’m very excited."
• “It was the most profound experience I’ve ever had creatively. When you play someone who existed, you do feel a huge responsibility to do them justice. And you can’t really f*** around and make your own interpretation of how somebody would react in a certain moment because you have all this information, all this background – so you know how somebody would react. You just know."
• “Edie was fundamentally destructive and messed-up, but kind of intriguing and magical and tortured and intelligent. She was like a magnet for people, and yet she destroyed herself, and there’s something completely beguiling about that. You fall in love with her because you empathise with her. She was sexually abused by her father and was from this very messed-up family and she had a very bad childhood, so there were reasons why she went off the rails.”
• "Come on, Edie Sedgwick is an extraordinary challenge. It's going to be tough making the audience sympathize with a drug addict. But I am obsessed about that era. Everything was glamorous and beautiful, and I love '60s music. It's something to really get my teeth into, dramatically really intense."
• [on the sex scenes] "We wanted to make it realistic and I watched it thinking 'Oh my God, my Dad's going to see it!' And that was going through my head. "But it was relevant to the story in that it's a movie about the 60s, and sex and drugs and rock and roll were a big part of that. We didn't want to hold back because it is a real film and it is a gritty film and there was a lot of shocking things and it wouldn't fit in the film if we had an unrealistic sex scene. It was always a bit uncomfortable but I think it was relevant to the story."
• [on the sex scenes] "I think there were always concerns because it's a vulnerable position to be in but, because Edie really had a problem letting men in, it was such a significant moment for her."
• "She fell head over heels in love with him and then had her heart broken. It was so sad."
• "I hadn't done many films and this came along and it was just a dream so I spent a year researching her. I read everything there was to read, I studied her movements, her dance and the way that she spoke. I was travelling around almost being a detective, meeting a lot of her friends and her family and her husband."
• "It's very close to me as a project. I did about a year's worthy of research. There's a lot to study. She had a very specific way of talking and moving. I loved it. You feel like a historian, you know."
| Trivia |
• In February 2007 rumours arose that the sex scenes between Sienna and Hayden Christensen, as Edie and Billy, were real, but Sienna strongly denied this.
• Revealing Mistake - When Edie reads the paper about Billy's wedding, try to freeze the scene. If you read what the paper actually says, you will find out that, except for the first few lines that talk about the wedding, it also talks about some nonsense stuff that is copied and pasted all over the paper!
| Reviews |
• Philly.com: "Still, Miller, who had her first 15 minutes of fame as the girlfriend Jude Law cheated on with his kids' nanny, is very much back in the game. And this time she's the leading lady of her own story. She's like an alchemist here, turning the strawlike constructs of the empty script into the whisper of gold that, ever so briefly, was Edie."
• SMUDailyCampus.com: "Miller does a commendable job, capturing the naivete and ambition of pre-Warhol Edie in addition to the desperation and severe depression of post-Warhol Edie. Miller carries the film and does so with style."
• NY Metro: "Sienna Miller does the best work of her career (again, not saying much, but only because she’s young) as Edie Sedgwick, the poor little rich girl who became Warhol’s muse and most celebrated “superstar” before eventually succumbing to drugs and depression like so many an innocent cum pop culture icon."
• >LocalNewsReader.com: "But while she gives a raw, vibrant performance, the one we‘ve long suspected was in her, she‘s consistently hampered by the film‘s clunky script."
• NewsDay.com: "Not even Sienna Miller's intense, deeply committed portrayal of Sedgwick can reconcile the movie's divided impulses. Miller ably evokes Edie's mercurial flamboyance while keeping her vulnerability within easy reach. Clearly, Miller studied Sedgwick's underground movies and nailed down the mannerisms. But there's nothing studied or clinical about her all-out performance."
• Unknown Source: "The focus, though, is on Miller. It’s rare to see such a film where an actress on the brink of stardom in real life is showcased so fully in fiction. For Miller, “Interview” is kind of a brave step. This is like seeing her resume on display. She’s sly, cute, funny, deceiving, outraged and miserable, all in the same structure. Luckily, she pulls it off. Katya is a winning exercise for her. Sienna Miller is the real thing. So forget all the tabloid stuff about Jude Law etc. There’s a new girl in town, and she means business."
• EmanuelLevy.com: "In the title role, the British actress Sienna Miller gives a sexy, intense performance, struggling against all odds to find the center of her role, but, alas, she is defeated by the writers and helmer."
• Unknown Source: "Miller was robbed of a best actress nomination, but the film itself is rather shortsighted."
| Box Office & Money |
Opening Weekend: £156,779 (UK), $195,698 (USA)
Total Gross: $1,661,464 (USA) (by April 2007)
Sienna's Salary: ?
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