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Ellie Bamber on playing Kate Moss in Moss & Freud: ‘The fear set in very quickly’

Ellie Bamber on playing Kate Moss in Moss & Freud: ‘The fear set in very quickly’

If the preparation sounds extreme, the film gives Bamber little room to hide. Moss & Freud is a fashion film but only in flashes: the Corinne Day feathered-headdress shoot on the beach for The Face, Moss eating a Magnum topless on a Vivienne Westwood catwalk, and other moments of fashion folklore. Bella Freud, the fashion designer (and one of Freud’s 14 officially acknowledged children) played exceptionally by Jasmine Blackborow, is a constant presence, having introduced the model to her father, Lucian. Other memories are more uncomfortable, including a flashback to Moss vulnerable at 17, posing with Mark Wahlberg for Calvin Klein. Mostly, though, it is about the sometimes charming, sometimes challenging relationship the then 28-year-old model developed with the 80-year-old painter, famous for his refusal to flatter his subjects. Source link

The silencer and the White House Farm murders: is this the evidence that could free Jeremy Bamber? | Jeremy Bamber

The silencer and the White House Farm murders: is this the evidence that could free Jeremy Bamber? | Jeremy Bamber

On 7 August 1985, five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex, England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas; and her adoptive parents, June and Nevill Bamber. All five had been shot with a rifle. Caffell’s 24-year-old brother Jeremy Bamber, who was also adopted, had alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and had been outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizophrenia and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the rifle lying on her chest, pointing towards her neck. There were two gunshot wounds to her neck and chin, and a bloodied Bible by her side. The case was initially thought to be open and shut, a tragic murder-suicide committed by Caffell. But a month later, Jeremy Bamber was arrested. He has now been in prison …