British actress Sienna Miller gives an award-worthy performance in her new thought-provoking drama, Wander Darkly. The drama focuses on some heavy topics, which enabled Miller to turn a performance that's unlikely to go unnoticed as we head into awards season.
Five Things You Need to Know:
- The plot of Wander Darkly follows a traumatic accident that affects a couple's memory as they're force to deal with the trauma.
- Miller was born in New York City, but raised in London. She began her career as a model, but soon made a name for herself with several TV and film roles. Her breakthrough came in the 2004 films, Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in 2006's Factory Girl. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.
- Miller returned with her role as actress Tippi Hedren in the television film The Girl. She also appeared in Foxcatcher, American Sniper, Mississippi Grind, The Lost City of Z, Live by Night, and American Woman, as well as most recently, the miniseries The Loudest Voice.
- Diego Luna plays her husband in the movie with Tara Miele directing. Principal photography began in Los Angeles in August 2018. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020. In September, 2020, Lionsgate acquired distribution rights to the film.
- Wander Darkly doesn't steer away from some heavy topics including death. Miller said, "This film asks a lot of questions and it deals with grief, something we all have to deal with and it’s a real internal experience of grief. I did think about death and I do think about death, and as a culture, we don’t spend enough time thinking about it, and it happens to all of us. I think that was intriguing, what happens and what your beliefs are. I kind of waiver between loving the idea there is something bigger than us and loving the idea of the science take on it, which is you know, this is it and make the most of it." Although Miller has played in many heavy roles, she would love to do a lighthearted comedy and have an easy 2021 saying, "I would like to tap dance and sing my way through the next five years."