Does Sienna Miller Deserve Another Chance?
Is she really a home wrecker? Maybe Sienna Miller is an OK lady.
I'd like to preface this post by saying that there is a very good chance that I am not related to Sienna Miller<. My mom informs me that my Kraut ancestors were nervous about (or ashamed of) their German name. So at Ellis Island (or wherever) they flipped the script, dropped the umlaut and replaced the "ue" with a simple, dignified "i." As far as I know, her family is from the English-y, Irish-y branch of the Miller name (though her dad, I believe, is American). Fun fact, Millers ran windmills and other mills and did not just milling about. It was very important work and dangerous. Flour dust is more explosive than coal dust, so the Millers (yes, all of us) were sort of like the fishermen on Most Dangerous Catch except with less money and homoerotic beardedness.
I digress, Sienna Miller and I are, indeed, probably not related and I still think she's not all bad. Why do I think this? Number 1, did anyone see that GI Joe trailer during the Super Bowl? That jam is going to be awesome. Or an unmitigated disaster. Either way, Sienna Miller is in it. Any actress willing to star in a movie about Edie Sedgwick (Factory Girl) and follow it by playing a vampy villainess in GI Joe, can't be all bad. She also played the sexual tension roommate in the brilliant (but cancelled) Keen Eddie.
I know, "Great. You think she's hot and you like her stupid movies. Should your opinion really be valid in this matter?" And that's a fair criticism, but I don't really think she's all that hot (something about not kicking someone out of bed). And of the films I've seen of hers I really only like Layer Cake (Keen Eddie was on TV).
In her favor, she basically got flattened by Jude Law. Yes, he's an irresistible force of charm. No, the nanny had no chance escaping his laser beams. Yes, Sienna Miller could have left sooner. No, he wasn't fully divorced when they began dating. Yes, he apologized and tried to salvage things. No, she was not 100% in the wrong.
After a yes-no of that nature, it's easy to see why she may be like, "F*ck it. I'm getting mine." At which point she boldly strode forward and then did (or did not) become entangled with the likes of taken (or married) gentlemen: Diddy, Sean Penn and Cillian Murphy. She most definitely steamrolled right on over wiry Welshman Rhys Ifans and had some kind of something with trust fund actor Balthazar Getty. If you're keeping score at home (and why wouldn't you be?), that's one confirmed affair, three alleged affairs and one spurned Welsh actor against once* cheated upon.
Discussion
Both comments spot on, why Miller got the part of Maid Marion in the first place is beyond me. She mostly plays conflicted damaged characters however something tells me she plays these roles effortlessly not because she is an "exceptional " actress but maybe because she see herself in these characters. They seem a lot like her that is why " Miss Julie " is the role for here, true to life. She needs roles outside her comford zone than we might believe she is a good actress.
As for her private life that should be private, but when you have an affair with a married man and are seen on a boat at sea in photo's that are near pornographic then all bets are off. But what amazed most people was the fact that after all that she paraded around LA in front of his wife and children and showing a lot of PDA, when the wife had only just realised she was separated, that must have devastating for the wife. Both Miller and Getty are scumbags And what is really funny now she is modelling for UNICEF for money for children, what kind of person uses her for that role, she has just had no sensitivity towards his children and split up a family. Give me a break, what are the people in Hollywood thinking.
The only person coming out of this affair with some grace and character is Mrs. Getty.
Sienna was the same manipulative opportunist now as she was before she got her hooks into Jude. Any girl who, as a teenager, brought guys home to sleep with, with mom's blessing, ain't 'xactly naive. She fervently pursued Jude on the set of Alfie, according to director and costars, and yes, his divorce was granted the next month after they started filming, so Sienna had nothing to do with that. She suddenly dumped her boyfriend who she was still living with and took her stuff to Jude's place. So spare me the "Jude flattened her" song and dance crap. I think we had enough of those violins back in 2005 when she ran that train as far as she could take it. I for one could care less who he screwed while he was with her. She's a party girl, she was a party girl when she was with Jude, and she practiced that talent when Jude was away filming, flirting and sitting on men's laps...doesn't sound like someone who can be flattened, now does it? Yet she threw him to the dogs with her pitiful little act, parading in front of paps for attention (Paris Hilton is the only bigger famewhore that comes to mind), which is a clear indication that it wasn't her heart that was hurt (when someone you love has hurt you, you don't have the emotional energy to behave like she did) but merely her pride. Bottom line, the girl just needs to quit making a spectacle of herself and quit using the tabs for fame and sympathy. Funny, she's used tabs to gain her celebrity (her acting obviously wasn't bringing it) and now she whines about the tabs. The girl just needs to stop it if she wants a career. And acting lessons wouldn't hurt, either.
Oh what so it's Jude's fault that Sienna breaks up marriages and goes through men like Kleenex? Give me a break! Sienna is a grown woman. Jude wasn't even married to her when he slept with the nanny! And she got her own back by sleeping with his best friend Daniel Craig. She has had her revenge. Women get cheated on all the time but they don't all turn into vengeful, man chasing, marriage wrecking dingbats. Try again.
Are Sienna and Getty really over? No split has been announced so, bearing in mind the fiasco last November/December (where it was "announced" then denied) I will only believe that has ended when one of them announces it on video. Until then I view it for what it is - a "non-separation" to take heat off both of them so that they can attempt to rebuild their ailing careers. Once things are back on track (if that ever happens), the two scumbags will be back together and it will be business as usual (if they were really apart, it would have been announced. Don't let them fool you - again).
People always talk about what a good actress Sienna is but I think her accomplishments are viewed with the sort of wonder reserved for those who can dress or feed themselves unaided. She really is nothing special - there are far more talented actresses out there. But the fact that Sienna is reasonably attractive and dresses in a way that some people like to copy (and willingly takes her clothes off onscreen) blinds them to her dubious acting ability. Her performances can only be described as patchy at best. At times she seems really good but she is given to overacting to an embarrassing degree and she can be wooden. Her accents are also deplorable. I thought Sienna was truly atrocious in Layer Cake. Considering she is supposed to be British, her pseudo cockney accent was really bad. I live in London, amongst the kind of people with accents that Sienna tried to portray. Her accent was painful to listen to - like Dick Van Dyke's in Mary Poppins!
Sienna has got to the age of 27 without winning any acting awards and she will NEVER win any major acting awards. She is, at best, an okay actress: she would be applauded if she were in a school play, she can be really good at times but her performances are not predictable. You cannot rely on her to deliver a great performance time after time. I personally don't think she is good enough to be acting professionally but again, that is my opinion (and is supported by the fact that she is usually the last choice for acting projects, after they have been turned down by numerous, more talented actresses).
Does she deserve a second chance? I don't think she is talented enough. I also don't think she will win back the public after the humiliation she put Mrs Getty through. Okay, she wasn't the one who was married but she was the one manhandling Mrs Getty's husband in public! No one wants a party to adultery in their living rooms. It might give their men ideas! On a more serious note, actresses like Sienna Miller are two a penny and there are plenty of other, better (and prettier) actresses around without her disaster of a private life overshadowing their work and making them box office kryptonite. Some might be tempted to chuck some work in her direction but whether the public gives her a second chance remains to be seen.
