‘It would break my heart if everyone said I’m s**t’.’: Sienna Miller details her crippling anxiety around her performances and reveals she’s NEVER watched her movies back
Sienna Miller has discussed her battle with anxiety and her fear of criticism.
The Layer Cake star, 39, spoke to Grazia about her struggles with looking back at her work and admits she was hypercritical of her work when she was younger and admits she would still be devastated if she was given bad reviews.
She said: ‘I’ve never gone back and watched films I’ve been in. I haven’t even seen them all! I had moments when I was younger where there would be a screening. I would watch in a total state of anxiety… I was very, very critical.’
Worries: Sienna Miller has discussed her battle with anxiety and her fear of criticism around her work
Sienna explained: ‘It would be a total lie to say that I don’t want people to respond positively. I had to dig extremely deep, so it would break my heart if everyone said: ‘She’s s**t’… I’ve never gone back and watched films I’ve been in…
‘I haven’t even seen them all! I had moments when I was younger where there would be a screening of some of the first films I did and I would watch in a total state of anxiety wishing that I had worked harder. I was very, very critical.’
Sienna burst on to screens in 2001 in romantic comedy South Kensington, where she starred opposite Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson.
Three years later her career hit a turning point when she appeared in Layer Cake as the love-interest of a cocaine supplier before going on to star in Alfie with Jude Law, with whom she had an extremely high-profile romance and later split.
Hard hitting: The Layer Cake star, 39, spoke to Grazia about her struggles with looking back at her work and admits she was hypercritical of her work when she was younger (pictured in her breakthrough role with then-boyfriend Jude Law in 2004)
Their headline-hitting, two-year romance came crashing down when it was revealed he had an affair with his kids’ nanny Daisy Wright.
In December 2009, it was reported they had rekindled their love after starring in separate shows on Broadway late that year. They spent Christmas 2009 in Barbados, with three of his kids, yet they announced they had split again in February 2011
Her glittering career continued after the 2005 split and she has scored a series of award nominations, including a BAFTA and BAFTA Television noms.
Way back when: Sienna burst on to screens in 2001 in romantic comedy South Kensington, where she starred opposite Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson (pictured in 2003)
Sienna’s role as Debra in 2018’s American Woman won her the Film Talent Award at the SCAD Savannah, Georgia Film Festival Awards and FCAD Deauville, France American Film Festival Awards in 2019.
Last month, Sienna admitted she ‘really relates’ to Britney Spears, and likened her own early stardom to ‘living a video-game existence, being hunted relentlessly’.
The actress explained how she battled a ‘perpetual state of anxiety’ while adjusting to life in the spotlight when she first shot to fame.
Wow: Sienna is pictured filming Anatomy Of A Scandal with Rupert Friend
Sienna said she sympathised with Britney, 39, while watching ‘unmanageable’ moments where the singer ‘cracked’ in explosive documentary, Framing Britney Spears, which looks into her life and controversial conservatorship.
Speaking in an interview with The Guardian‘s G2 supplement, Sienna said: ‘I was definitely a victim of that, and I couldn’t handle it. I don’t know how anyone could.’
Sienna, who admitted in 2017 that her former ‘party girl days’ were ‘hurtful to her career’, was previously one of the It girls of the London social scenes.
Award winning: Sienna’s role as Debra in 2018’s American Woman (pictured) won her the Film Talent Award at the SCAD Savannah, Georgia Film Festival Awards and FCAD Deauville, France American Film Festival Awards in 2019