It seems that Sienna Miller may actually be a very good actress. The reviews from the first screenings of Factory Girl are good good good, and they're actually talking Oscar! Below is an excerpt from Jeffrey Well's (of Hollywood Elsewhere) review.
I know award-quality when I see it, and Sienna Miller's capturing of Edie Sedgwick -- the doomed mid '60s scenester and Andy Warhol girl who died in '71 at age 28 -- in George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl (Weinstein Co.) totally rates. It may be the most eerily accurate reviving of a dead person I've ever seen in a film. And yet Miller projects dimension and gravitas in spades -- an unmistakable sadness and snap and aliveness like nothing I've gotten from an actress in any movie so far this year.
Miller isn't just a dead ringer for the real McCoy -- she gets her fluttery debutante laugh, that mixture of Warholian cool and little-girl terror, the giddy euphoria, the cracked voice. It's more than convincing -- it's a kind of rebirthing. (I feel I can say this with some authority having seen the real Sedgwick in John Palmer and David Weisman's Ciao Manhattan! way back when, and having looked at her photos for years.)
Am I the only person who is incredibly jealous? She's super gorgeous, super stylish, and now it would seem she is super talented too. Its a shocker.
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