
Ever since Sienna Miller began shooting for the drama 'Factory Girl', people were quick to cast their votes and say that it would turn out to be nothing more than one hundred percent crap. And even that is putting it as mildly as possible!
Anyway, due to the fact that the first screenings of the movie resulted in the most dreadful reviews, the entire cast and the producers had to go back on the set and re-shoot many parts of 'Factory Girl'. In fact, rumor has it that they redid the film almost in its entirety but, since this was never confirmed, we can't rely too much on it.
Then, there was the scandal that almost got the movie killed, when legendary singer Bob Dylan felt so offended about the way one of the characters resembled him and about the way he was somehow portrayed as the killer of Edie Sedgwick. When this one was also over, the movie went ahead as scheduled, premiering last week during the Sundance Film Festival, the biggest event for independent movies.
'Factory Girl' was eventually bought by a national distributor and is now premiering in all the major US cities. But controversy is still attached to it, more precisely to the steamy sex scene that has as protagonists Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen. The moment the film opened, people already started talking about how said scene was too good not to be the real thing.
This was in turn fueled some more by the rumor that the two actors took their onscreen romance behind the cameras and by the director's evasive replies each time he was asked about it. 'I can't comment. You'll have to ask Sienna about it', Hickenlooper told the reporters when they asked him about how real was the sex in the movie.
TMZ did just that: after a well-placed call to Sienna's publicist, the news agency got a statement according to which the sex scene is so good not because it shows actual sex but because both are such wonderful and talented actors. 'When you do a love scene there is a minimum of five people in the room. There's no real sex and the scene proves she knows how to give a good performance', the rep said.
Good acting or real sex, I imagine some of us will definitely be buying tickets for 'Factory Girl' and not necessarily to see the dramatic life and untimely demise of Edie...