MILLER'S TALE

It’s a grower, not a shower,” says Sienna Miller with a grin, referring to her upcoming film, American Woman. That cheeky assessment is fair though, both in terms of the expectation-defying, decade-spanning plot that gets its claws into you slowly, and the film’s own journey. The independent drama was shot two years ago and has toured the festival circuit (Total Film first saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018).

It’s July 2019 when we meet Miller at The Electric members’ bar in Notting Hill. Hunkered down on a sofa, she’s softly spoken but candid, and clearly still enthused about her experience on American Woman. After a string of impactful but screen-time-light supporting roles in a slew of heavyweight films (Foxcatcher, American Sniper, High-Rise, The Lost), she’s in almost every frame of , shouldering a demanding leading role. “I think I have been looking for [] my entire career,” she says. “They’re kind of few and far between.”