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

