Thompson, Hickenlooper, "Factory Girl"
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 02, 2007 at 09:52 AM
Risky Biz blog's Anne Thompson has written that a "juicy Rush & Molloy gossip [item] about Sienna Miller's Factory Girl canoodling with Hayden Christensen" -- the item alleged that Miller and Christensen literally did the deed while filming a love scene -- "reeks of a gossip column plant designed to drive curiosity seekers to check out the movie."
Maybe, but not on George Hickenlooper's part. I checked with the Factory Girl director about Rush & Molloy's reporting, and he says (a) it's dead wrong and (b) running such an item degrades Miller and Christensen's dignity.
"This story in the Daily News is completely untrue," he said. "There was no sexual intimacy during the filming of this scene. Sienna and Hayden are actors. The physicality of the scene was completely simulated. So I completely deny the claims. I know -- I was in the room with them.
"Here are the details of how I was misquoted. After the Factory Girl premiere, I went to the part where I was cornered by George Rush. There he kept persisting that there were stories about Hayden and Sienna having sex while we were shooting. What I told him is that I don't ever deign to comment on questions like that because they are insulting. He kept asking about Hayden and Sienna's romantic relationship and I said to him I don't comment on the personal lives of my cast (as I have consistently done with respect to Sienna over the past two years). He asked if Sienna and Hayden were close, I replied that we were all close while making the film."
Rush & Molloy reported today that that "of course, Sienna Miller [has] denied she and her Factory Girl co-star and then-boyfriend Hayden Christensen actually had sex on camera, as several knowledgeable sources told us this week. She was standing next to her parents when we asked her.
"We suggest anyone who doubts it go see Hickenlooper's vision of Warhol girl Edie Sedgwick, which opens today. We freeze-framed the movie's hot spots (as rigorous journalism demands), and there's no question Sienna and Hayden are deep into their roles."
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Posted by: bipedalist![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 2, 2007 10:33 AM
I'm sure this couldn't have been planted by Hayden Christensen's camp in their never-ending quest to make sure the world is reminded he's hetero.
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February 2, 2007 10:39 AM
How slow a day must it be for this to be lead item, followed by two really-who-gives-a-shit pieces about Eddie Murphy's chances come late February?
Nothing like insightful looks at what is really important in the world of film...
Posted by: RoyBatty![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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February 2, 2007 11:09 AM
Actually, RoyBatty, this turns out to be the ONLY important happening in the world of film today. Wake up! Time to die.
I don't care for Miller or Christensen, and the film's a dud (after all the hype! Imagine!). I guess Hinkenlooper's trying to set the record straight now re: his Daily News comments. But "I can't comment. You'll have to ask Sienna about it" is still thuddingly out there. Or maybe the question to George was, "What's Sienna got in her pockets right now?"
Don't ever talk to journalists. Would be my advice.
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February 2, 2007 12:26 PM
"reeks of a gossip column plant designed to drive curiosity seekers to check out the movie."
Oh great! Now I'll be afraid to see the movie and have people think I'm there just for the graphic sex.
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February 2, 2007 06:41 PM
I saw FACTORY GIRL in a half-filled Arclight cinema at yesterday's 5:05 p.m. show.
Underwhelming. Yes, Sienna and Guy Pearce are good (with James Naughton's dinner-scene cameo the film-stealer), but Hickenlooper seems as tone-deaf to Warhol's universe as he was to Rodney Bingenheimer in the KING OF THE SUNSET STRIP documentary.
Essentially, FACTORY GIRL is the love child of CARRINGTON and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
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