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  Chloë Turned 31 on November 18th (Posted December 12, 2005) Chloë turned 31 on Noveber 18th, 2005. There were 135 birthday wishes for her 30th. This year it's up xxx to 175 Birthday wishes. Read Happy 3st Birthday Wishes or wish her a be-lated Happy Birthday. |
 Blash's 'Lying' adds Sevigny
to young cast (Posted
November 8th, 2005)Chloë Sevigny has joined the ensemble cast of "Lying," currently shooting in upstate New York, the producers said Friday at the American Film Market. Sevigny will play Megan, who invites her New York friends to the country for the weekend and discovers a pathological liar in their midst. She joins a cast that includes Meryl Streep's son, Henry Gummer, in his feature debut, as well as Jena Malone and Leelee Sobieski. The movie marks the directorial debut of M. Blash. Sevigny's recent credits include "Broken Flowers," "Melinda and Melinda" and "Shattered Glass." She received an Oscar nomination for her supporting turn in 1999's "Boys Don't Cry." (Reuters/Hollywood Reporter) |
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Chloë
Sevigny Reveals Spider-Man 3 Villain?
(Posted November 3rd, 2005) The New York Daily News spoke to Chloë Sevigny who says she's trying to land a role in Spider-Man 3. "I'd love to be in 'Spider-Man 3!'" Sevigny says. "There's a villain in it who's a blond, buxom girl, and I'm trying to get it! She adds, "That [may] surprise people, since actors are always thought of as their last film or who they were. I think I'll always be drawn to films more difficult to watch, but I don't want to be a snobby cinephile." Could we see Spidey facing Black Cat in the third film? It's not confirmed, but this is definitely interesting. (Source: Mary, Lester G) |
The High Priestess
of Cool- Interview - October 28, 2005 (Posted
October 30th, 2005) CHLOE
Sevigny traces her iconoclastic style to the day when a new girl sporting
blue hair, Doc Martens and a kilt arrived at her junior high school in
the affluent New York suburb of Darien, Connecticut. "I grew up in a small
town that was pretty sheltered, pretty conservative," Sevigny says. "I
had never seen a girl like that before. She totally changed my life. She
is one of the most influential people in my life ever." Today, Sevigny
is herself one of the most influential figures in international fashion.
Her idiosyncratic mix of thrift-shop finds and designer pieces has established her as a renegade, followed with near religious zeal by millions among the fashion establishment who scrutinise, salivate over - and occasionally scorn - each and every one of her clothing selections. It helps, of course, that Sevigny is also an accomplished actor. Once a darling of art-house cinema (including Kids by Larry Clarke, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny), Sevigny has since staked her claim on the red carpet through accomplished performances in more mainstream films, such as Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda and the upcoming Cannes Grand Prix winner Broken Flowers by Jim Jarmusch.  If
truth be told, however, it is the clothes, not the cinema, for which Sevigny
is most notorious, a fact she readily acknowledges. "Because the fashion
magazines have such wide distribution everyone sees me in them, and because
most of my films have been independent so they only play in art houses
and not many people see those, I think there is a misconception that I'm
not working so much," she says. In the past she has been frustrated by
the focus on fashion, in 2001 telling Harper's Bazaar: "For some reason
the public has embraced me as a fashion icon, and I feel like it has diminished
me as an actress." Now, however, having turned in a couple of wide-release
features, she is more comfortable with the coverage of her clothes. "I
still feel a little funny about that, but I also think there is a great
tradition of film stars like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth being
celebrated for their style." Sevigny is certainly feted for her own. She
regularly takes top honours in the best dressed lists of publications
including style.com and Vogue, and in a recent double whammy for both
her fashion and film-star status, she appeared in the Louis Vuitton campaign
for winter 2004, modelling Marc Jacobs alongside Christina Ricci, Scarlett
Johansson and Diane Kruger.  It
is Sevigny's style that brings her to Australia today, as a guest of Motorola
during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. The invitation was a canny
one. While other marquees will feature mainly local, more accessible,
celebs, Sevigny's reputation as the high priestess of international cool
- Jay McInerney proclaimed her "the coolest girl in the world" in his
1994 New Yorker profile - will deliver Motorola press and prestige no
amount of free champagne can buy. It is reassuring then, given she orbits
the remote stratosphere, that Sevigny, on the telephone from her New York
apartment, is anything but an ice-queen. She giggles, she ums and ahs,
and her words tumble out in a torrent of candour and enthusiasm, despite
the fact she is extremely tired. "I was out dancing until 5am last night,"
she confides. "I'm definitely going to stay in tonight."  Occasionally,
Sevigny unleashes a loud, and somewhat endearing, braying laugh. "My personal
style? Ha, haw, haaaaaaa! Um, I guess it's pretty eclectic, I have a base
of preppy conservatism but I try, while I'm still young enough for it
to be appropriate, to be a little sexy." When, I ask, is it no longer
appropriate to wear a mini-skirt? "It depends on how well you maintain
your body. Demi Moore still dresses sexy and looks incredible." Sevigny,
30, says her own look has evolved considerably since she made her acting
debut in Kids in 1994. "I wore my own T-shirts in that," she says. "A
few years ago I was into an immigrant look with long skirts and a head
wrap, but now it's more flirty and short." She pauses. "I think I'm moving
more away from black, I used to be head to toe black all the time." Ever
the chameleon, Sevigny is the subject of constant media scrutiny. "It
is hurtful when the tabloids make fun of my outfits, but I think it's
really funny when they make fun of one and then next month it appears
in Vogue. That's very satisfying for me." One can well imagine this would
be the case, considering every outfit she wears is a carefully considered
construction. "I love fashion and style as a way of expressing myself,"
she says. Sevigny's passion often crosses over from her own cupboard to the wardrobe departments of her film sets. She was the costume designer for Gummo, the 1997 indie flick by her long-time creative collaborator and former boyfriend Harmony Korine, and has regular input into what her characters will wear onscreen. "My favourite thing from Gummo is the rabbit ears that Bunny Boy wore," she says. "I made them on my sewing machine, I fashioned them from pale pink felt, but unfortunately on the first day of shooting it rained and they just fell apart. Felt doesn't deal with rain. But I still have them at home." On other films, Sevigny believes she is "very frustrating for costume people because I'm very picky. I'm not afraid to say what I like and what I don't like." Sevigny's self-expressive and discerning nature is largely the product of her vintage obsession. "There is nothing more frustrating than when I'm in a vintage store, and they bring me out things because they think they know what I like and what I don't like. They never do. I just wish they would leave me alone." While she buys only vintage - "I feel uncomfortable in new clothing" - she does wear items by designers with whom she enjoys a personal relationship. They include Marc Jacobs, Alber Elbaz and Tara Subkoff from Imitation of Christ. "I met Marc when I was 17 when I did a music video for Sonic Youth. We shot it in the showroom where he did his grunge collection. He's a lovely man. I actually watched princess Diana's funeral at his house." Sevigny met Elbaz when he began at Yves Saint Laurent. "I was wearing a lot of YSL at that time, so they invited me to a lunch to see the new collection. I immediately fell in love with him, I just thought he was very respectful of the house. Now at Lanvin, what he is doing is so incredible, because you see a lot of high fashion and the quality seems kind of poor. Alber's workmanship is really worth the price."  Subkoff,
like Sevigny, hails from Connecticut, but the pair did not become acquainted
until they worked together on The Last Days of Disco. Sevigny is now a
creative director of Subkoff's Imitation of Christ label. "We have a similar
upbringing and aesthetic, an understanding of each other that I don't
have with most of my other friends. I always have tonnes of ideas, I help
her streamline her ideas and edit down the collections and style the models.
It is kind of a hobby for me." Has she plans to turn her "hobby" into
a fashion label of her own? "I haven't really given it that much consideration,"
Sevigny says. "What would you do, there are enough handbags, shoes and
beauty products already out there. Anyway, I can't stand things like Elle
Macpherson Intimates and Iman make-up, all those models putting their
names to things, it's too much." Sevigny has also had a gutful of red carpet. "In general there are very few women out there who have a great sense of style. A lot of them have a stylist (Sevigny never uses one) and they pile on too much, too much hair and make-up and too many accessories; they should pare it right back." Ironically, then, our conversation ends with Sevigny talking about another shopping trip. "I need to get a lot of hats," she says. "Thatthing, hats, I have never done. But I need to get a whole lot of them together to take to Australia." (Source- © The Australian - October 28, 2005) |
Through Being
Cool (an interview by Oliver Burkeman) (Posted
October 30th, 2005)
 Sevigny
stings so sweetly that it often takes a moment to realise how venomous
she has just been; it's not even clear that it's always intentional. During
our lunch in a cafe in New York's East Village, she employs similar delicacy
to skewer the director of her latest film ("on the page it was a lot clearer
than his editing . . . maybe he just spent too much time with it?") and,
in an expert piece of verbal jujitsu, the stars of two of America's current
top five movies. "I went to see Flightplan," she says. "It was a choice
between that and In Her Shoes, and I decided I'd rather support Jodie
Foster than Cameron Diaz. I love Jodie Foster, but . . . well, it was
disappointing." .  It
should be noted, in fairness, that Sevigny turns her laser-like scepticism
on herself as regularly as on others. She has said that when she watches
her own films, she thinks: "What the hell am I doing there? What was I
thinking?" Being the coolest person in New York was the first of several
mantles she seemed unsure she deserved, or wanted. The next, which followed
her debut role in Larry Clark's 1995 Aids drama Kids, was spokeswoman
for her generation. Now, at 30, having been nominated for an Oscar for
Boys Don't Cry, and having worked with the likes of Woody Allen and Lars
von Trier, she's well ensconced in the third role - queen of the indies.
In this capacity, she returns to the topic of Aids for her new film, 3
Needles, directed by Thom Fitzgerald  But
there is evidence that she's uncomfortable with this state of affairs
as well. She has described herself as "sick of being in this independent
movie rut", and now, looking genuinely worried, she says: "I suddenly
had this thought the other day. It occurred to me that I was really 1990s.
I had this whole crisis." She laughs, but it sounds like she's hyperventilating. Perhaps
this preoccupation explains her latest move: signing up for six years
on a new HBO television show, Big Love. It's a family drama with a difference
- the difference being that the family are polygamists, on the fringes
of modern-day Mormonism, and Sevigny is playing one of three wives. "I'll
never be the perky romantic comedy girl," she says. "But I'd like to do
sci-fi, or an action feature." She pauses. "If it was smart."  Sevigny
is the most compelling thing about 3 Needles, a rambling and disjointed
film portraying the arrival of a blood-borne epidemic, never explicitly
named, in Montreal, South Africa and China. Her character, Clara, is a
novice nun, sent to Africa to convert dying villagers to Jesus before
it's too late. She ends up understanding that saving lives is more important
- even if it means dealing with a morality that comes in shades of grey,
entailing a fraught sexual relationship with the local plantation owner.
 Sevigny
is less contemptuous about Clara's initial moral rigidity than one might
have expected. Her own upbringing was deeply Catholic - "Mass every Sunday,
religious school during the week" - and one of her best childhood friends
is now a nun in Ohio. She researched the film by talking to the priest
in her old parish, where she grew up in Connecticut, and pestered religious
friends to explain the nature of their "calling". "I'm actually very traditional,"
she says. If there's any doubt about that, it's dispelled when she talks
about marriage. "I definitely want to be married before I have babies
- and for a while, to make sure I don't get divorced," she says. "That's
one thing I hate about celebrities in America, this lack of respect for
the institution of marriage. You know - Renée Zellweger, she's married
for, what, 30 days? I mean, come on! I just get really angry."  The
subject exercises her so much that she's driven to an un- actorlike candour
about her own relationship with Matthew McAuley, bass player in the New
York band ARE Weapons, which is managed by her brother Paul. They've been
together "for five years - well, we had a year of not being together and
now we're kind of together again. I guess. I'm not really sure. It's not
really defined right now. But I'm 30 and I want to get married and have
babies soon. And he's not ready. So I'm kind of at the point of 'Do I
stick it out, or do I move on?'" Such contemplations on family values
may surprise those for whom Sevigny's most prominent recent role was in
The Brown Bunny, in which she performs oral sex on the director and star
(and Sevigny's ex- boyfriend) Vincent Gallo. Critics united to excoriate
the movie; this paper's reviewer called it "so autistic, so painfully
sincere, that it goes off the so-bad-it's-good scale into something else
entirely".  "Have
you seen it?" Sevigny asks. I haven't, I admit. "Then I'm not going to
talk to you about it," she says. But she does. "What about 9 Songs?" Sevigny
demands, referring to the 2004 Michael Winterbottom film that is essentially
one extended sex scene, and an explicit one too. "9 Songs makes Brown
Bunny look like Sesame Street. And yet there's no hullaballoo over that
film. I mean, that's what I couldn't understand. That was shocking compared
to Brown Bunny." Sevigny has described Gallo's movie as "an art film"
that "should be playing in museums", not exposed to the harsh expectations
of the commercial market. But this seems to go to the heart of the dilemmas
she faces. How do you make that kind of movie while also leaving your
indie rut? Can you do both, and be judged by different standards? Can
you be the It girl, and then the face of various cosmetics firms, and
make cool low-budget films but also big-budget films that lots of people
will see? How do you decide? And while we're on the subject of deciding,
do you stay with your boyfriend, who won't commit to marriage, or do you
leave him? "I can't make a single decision myself," Sevigny says, with a directness that disarms, though it turns out she's moved on to different matters. "My mom's in town today. I need to buy [window] shades. But there are a thousand different kinds. Really - there are too many options in the world. Can't we just have two different kinds of shades, and that's it? I'm a 30-year-old woman. You'd think I'd be able to make a decision on my own. But it's just overwhelming." 3 Needles screens at the London film festival on Monday and Tuesday, and will be introduced by the director. Details: www.lff.org.uk or 020-7928 3232. (Source- Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005) |
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Chloë
Sevigny will join the David Fincher thriller "Zodiac" (Posted October 22, 2005) Variety reports that Chloë Sevigny will join the David Fincher thriller "Zodiac" for Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. have alreadybeen cast to star as well. Sevigny will play the girlfriend of Robert Graysmith (JakeGyllenhaal). Gyllenhaal will play the role of true-life journalist RobertGraysmith, who was also the author of the two books, "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked," upon which the film is based. Downey will play areporter named Paul Avery, and Ruffalo would play the San Franciscohomicide inspector in charge of the case. The books revolve around "the real-life tale of a serial killerknown as the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized San Francisco for 25 years. Graysmith and Avery worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, whichthe killer used as a conduit to communicate with authorities." (from Cinema Confidential ) Cool Site: Zodiackiller.com |
 Chloë Interview - Three Needles ("Simple Life of a Movie
Star") (Posted
September 16, 2005)So much for the glamorous life of a movie star. When Chloe Sevigny was in South Africa filming 3 Needles, the film chronicle of AIDS on three continents that opened the 25th Atlantic Film Festival on Thursday night in Halifax, she had to change in the car and pee in the bushes. But the star of such films as Kids, The Last Days of Disco, Palmetto and Boys Don't Cry, for which she won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress, says the beauty of the Transvaal more than made up for the lack of luxuries. "I couldn't complain. The days were not long, I even enjoyed walking to the bushes, I was there for about a month and a half and I walked away unscathed," she said after a news conference on the film, written, directed and produced by Thom Fitzgerald of Halifax....read more |
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Chloë's
latest Costume Change: Globe Interview (Posted
September 12, 2005) You couldn't have a bigger sartorial chasm between the Chloë Sevigny who stars as Clara, a plain-faced novice missionary nun in the film 3 Needles and the Chloë Sevigny posing for our camera in a hotel suite to promote it: She's wearing, head to sexy heels, Dolce & Gabbana. "Quite different from a nun's habit, which is something I'd always wanted to don, actually," she says, as we settle in for a quick film- festival chat. With a parallel life as a fashion muse and insider for labels such as Dolce & Gabbana and Miu Miu, it's no wonder the Manhattan-based Sevigny thinks of acting as a series of costume changes. In the course of her 10-year career, she has been a grungy club kid in her first film, Kids (1995), a small-town girlfriend in Boys Don't Cry (1999), the buttoned uptown editor in Shattered Glass (2003) and the ill-advised turn that same year as Vincent Gallo's pliant girlfriend in Brown Bunny....read more |
| Chloë
Listed as Fouth Actress Most Likely to Conquer Hollywood (Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004) British actress Keira Knightley has topped a poll naming the actresses most likely to conquer Hollywood. The 19-year-old screen star beat off competition from up-and-coming American actress Scarlett Johansson and Pearl Harbor beauty Kate Beckinsale. The survey - featured in the latest issue of Britain's Film Review magazine - puts the Lost in Translation star in second place, with 14-year-old Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes following in third. FemaleFirst.co.uk |
The top ten
in full is: 1 Keira Knightley 2 Scarlett Johansson 3 Keisha Castle-Hughes 4 Chloë Sevigny 5 Naomi Watts 6 Julia Stiles 7 Kate Beckinsale 8 Sophia Myles 9 Maggie Gyllenhaal 10 Rachel Weisz (webmasters version) |
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 The
Brown Bunny Girl Bites Back (Posted
May 27, /2003)Chloë Sevigny, star of two of the hottest competitors for Cannes' Palme d'Or, has an intriguing take on the term 'gratuitous sex scene'. What's the link between Lars von Trier's Dogville and Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny? Well, they're both in the running for this year's Palme d'Or, announced later today. And they both star Chloë Sevigny. "Also," Sevigny chips in, "they both feature extreme sex and animals in the title." That's choice Chloë - sharp, funny, slightly filthy. Ever since her debut eight years ago as the AIDS-infected waif in Larry Clarke's Kids, she's been the epitome of geek chic cool, a thrift-shop sweetie directors have been clambering over to adopt as their muse. She's dated Jarvis Cocker, and Jay McInerney called her "the coolest girl in the world".It's official, then: you don't get much hipper than Chloë Sevigny. But what's surprising is you don't get much nicer, either. Friendly to a fault, Sevigny is keen to claim mediocrity. "I'm very average, you know, very plain-Jane. Very all-American. So I think I try to play it off by looking like a crazy East European girl. By wearing an insane outfit, I don't think I'm so boring and normal."....read more |
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