Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly, which premiered this year in Sundance and finally is becoming available in the US, Sienna Miller plays a wife and mother who finds her life suddenly disrupted after she suffers a big car crash along with her husband (Diego Luna). Afterward, her character, Adrienne, walks a fine line between reality and what’s going on in her mind, forcing her to explore all kinds of feelings. Although Sienna was able to demonstrate her acting range in earlier films such as The Girl, in which she played Tippi Hedren. She demonstrated her prowess again in several films, such as Foxcatcher, American Sniper, 21 Bridges, which also featured one of the last performances of Chadwick Boseman. From London, where she is now filming the series Anatomy of a Scandal, Sienna told us about what it was like to put herself in Adrianne’s shoes, acting with Luna, why her early acting days were so hard and her memories of Boseman.

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>Did making this film change your perspective on life?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>And did it make you appreciate more what you have, and learn not to take anything for granted? Life can go at any minute, basically.

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>How demanding was it emotionally for you, because this woman goes through so many feelings in this movie?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>This film is also a love story. So how important was your chemistry with the actor who was going to play your husband?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>As an actor, what separates him from others?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>You have a long experience of making movies. Does having a female director make a difference?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But to sit inside a female experience just adds something, especially as the movie is very personal to our director, it really is her own experience. She wasn’t afraid to be gritty or real or have the character be annoying in moments. It was honest, and I think that’s what I am looking for as I work further and further along in my career. I just want authenticity, I want things to feel real and examined, and women are good at doing that.

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>Did the fact that she was also the writer help you as an actress?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>On a sadder note, I need to ask you about a different co-star. Your previous film co-starred Chadwick Boseman. I am sure you didn’t know that he was sick. Can you talk about your experience of working with him?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>In your career, you have shown us that you are an amazing actress. But I think that in the beginning people didn’t take you really seriously. How hard was that, knowing what you could do, but having people pay attention to the wrong things?

Factory Girl which I am really proud of to this day and in which I think I showed that I had the ability, but the noise was so loud around me that it really drowned everything else out. And what’s been wonderful about getting older and fighting a million legal cases to ensure that I have the privacy to do the work that I want to do, is that the world has kind of opened up and there’s breathing room to see somebody as something other than what the media is constantly and aggressively projecting. But it all adds to the story, it was a long time ago, I feel much more settled now and I don’t have to deal with that drama anymore, and that is a huge relief.

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>So, if you could go back in time and tell that 22-, 23-year-old something, what would you tell her?

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>When was the moment you think that people perceived you as you really are? 

Foxcatcher and American Sniper, that was probably a year where people maybe were like “Well …” I worked with Clint Eastwood and Bennett Miller in one year and those directors are kind of chic. (laughs) So that was useful. I had also become a mother and people were sort of, like, “Oh okay, she’s serious now, she has a child.” I don’t know, I think there were moments where the work really did shine through and I did have great responses from people that I very much respect. But that year was definitely really a pivotal moment.

color:black;mso-themecolor:text1′ lang=’EN’>What do you have to find in a project in order to go for it?

David E. Kelley show, I am English in it, something which I very rarely am, and it’s not something I would normally do, but it feels kind of close to home in many ways. I like playing real characters. But that feels like a stretch at this point, because I have done such varied things from The Loudest Voice to American Woman to this: they are really diverse and complicated people, but to play someone with less to hide behind is a challenge right now. I just want to be challenged and I want to tell the truth, and make things that actually have an impact – that make people feel, and think, and sometimes look at the people in society that you never normally look at and think, “What is that life like?” Everybody has a life, everybody has a story, I want to tell those stories.