Ellie Bamber Is Recreating Kate Moss's Exact '90s Runway Looks
The film explores Moss’s nine-month friendship with Lucian Freud and the nude portrait that later sold for £3.5 million.
- Biographical drama 'Moss & Freud' debuts in U.K. cinemas today, featuring actress Ellie Bamber, 29, as supermodel Kate Moss and 87-year-old Sir Derek Jacobi as painter Lucian Freud, exploring their unlikely friendship.
- Their real-life bond formed during nine months of sittings when Moss was 28 years old and pregnant, resulting in Freud's celebrated life-size 'Naked Portrait' before the artist's death in 2011 aged 88.
- Stylist Aimee Croysdill sourced vintage archival pieces for Bamber's press tour, including a pale pink Versace cable-knit sweater and metallic miniskirt from spring 1994, revived after 28 years, and a Calvin Klein strapless tomato red top.
- Sir Derek Jacobi praised Bamber as 'the most lovable lady and wonderful actress,' while Bamber described the role as 'really empowering,' hailing Moss as 'an enigma of a person' during press interviews.
- The 'Naked Portrait' remains the most compelling element of the narrative; critics noted the artwork 'speaks with a power, directness and clarity the preceding 100 minutes largely lack,' affirming its enduring artistic significance.
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Moss & Freud: this anodyne portrait of their artist-muse friendship lacks dramatic bite
Filmmakers have long found artistic creation both a compelling and a frustratingly elusive dramatic subject. In the right cinematic hands, artworks can be made to speak for themselves – think of the dazzling sequence of canvasses that concludes Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic of van Gogh, Lust For Life. In the wrong hands, the artist’s character and motives can all too readily lapse into cliché and banality. Moss & Freud explores the unlikely re…
Ellie Bamber Is Recreating Kate Moss's Exact '90s Runway Looks
Justin E Palmer/GC Images/Getty ImagesThrough the decades, Kate Moss has remained a perpetual style reference for us all—but Ellie Bamber’s just taken the supermodel’s look to literal extremes. While promoting her new film Moss & Freud, in which she stars as Moss (who also executive produced the project), Bamber took the method dressing route with two distinct vintage outfits. Both hailed from Moss’s own modeling greatest hits of the '90s, showi…
How Ellie Bamber Dealt With the Terror — and Sudden Empowerment — That Came With Playing Kate Moss
The young British actress gets candid about working with the iconic supermodel, who serves as an executive producer on 'Moss & Freud,' a film about her relationship with the late painter Lucian Freud: "With Kate being as iconic as she is, this was going to be a totally different challenge."
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