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172-Leelee Sobieski.Pdf At 15 Leelee Sobieski worked on Stanley Kubrick’s swansong. At 18 she got her first million-dollar pay cheque. And then she went AWOL. Now aged 24, the lanky beauty is back on the Hollywood circuit. Matt Mueller wants to know where she’s been… photography Doug Inglish All clothing and accessories “People think of by Stella McCartney Stanley Kubrick spring/summer 08 as this master filmmaker but he was so cuddly and vibrant and warm. I just wanted to cuddle him... Tom Cruise was wearing a silk vest in our scene and Fashion Editor Anthony it was really soft Unwin, Hair Jonathan Joseph against my bare Hanousek for Executive stomach and I liked Artists/Biolage, Make-up Leelee Sobieski is Yumi for YSL Beauty twirling around it – pottering around the at frankreps.com, I thought he was kitchen of her house Photographic Assistant really cute.” in the Hollywood hills, eating Magda Wosinska, Fashion breakfast and nursing the kind of Assistants Celina Sinden nasty cold where even laughing and Justin Allen Sylvester, makes you cough. Last night she had Production Nicole to decline an invitation from former porn Bomer at CLM US star Ron Jeremy, with whom she worked on her most recent film Finding Bliss, to watch Harry Dean Stanton’s mariachi With her strong, aquiline features and band. “Ron’s my new best friend, but I have Gallic-Slavic heritage, Liliane Rudabet to take care of myself at the moment.” At Gloria Elsveta Sobieski (“Gloria wasn’t the photo shoot, she doled out cash-and- originally there – I added it as a kid because I carry quantities of Emergen-C Immune needed a normal name in there”) was origi- to help everyone ward off her germs. “I’m nally talent-spotted in her school cafeteria sure I’m sick because I just finished Bliss,” by a casting agent for Interview With The she laughs, and coughs. “All of a sudden you Vampire. She missed out on playing the let your guard down and your body’s like, child bloodsucker to Kirsten Dunst, but ‘Oh, now I can be sick!’” hit the ground running with a succession Did she feel the need to take a step Finding Bliss is the latest in a streak of of chewy roles in space-rock blockbuster back from her career? “At that time I films Sobieski has made since coming back Deep Impact, Drew Barrymore-starrer did,” she admits. “But more than that, I from a three-year period of self-imposed Never Been Kissed, Merchant-Ivory’s A just fell in love. I didn’t want to push that exile. A romantic comedy about a gawky, Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries and, most away with time constraints and distance. sexually naive filmmaker who is forced memorably, coming on like Lolita in It sounds kind of crazy to take time off to take a job editing porn movies, Bliss Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. in the middle of everything, but it was was shot in Spokane, Washington State, Sobieski remembers the legendary super-important.” with Sobieski wandering around wearing maverick as “a great guy – he couldn’t have Still only 24, she admits that refocusing summer dresses in icy February tempera- been any more wonderful towards me. He on her film career has felt like starting over tures. “I was taking little heat packs and was like the head wizard in Harry Potter.” again. “It was stressful, but everything in putting them in my bra,” she grins. “It was Dumbledore? “Yes! People think I’m really life can’t come so easy or you don’t appre- super-cold.” weird for saying that because they think of ciate it,” says the actress, who’s had to work In person Sobieski sends out a peculiar him as this master filmmaker but he was so her way back up the industry food chain aura of jaded innocence. Like some refugee cuddly and vibrant and warm. I just wanted from indie projects to a plum role as a from a Disney teen-queen drama, she to squeeze him!” She felt similarly tactile student of Al Pacino’s psychiatry professor liberally drops “super” into her sentences; toward her co-star Tom Cruise: “He was in upcoming thriller 88 Minutes. Describing but at the same time is capable of being wearing a silk vest in our scene and it was herself as a “super-positive freak”, she’s sanguine about having been a child actress really soft against my bare stomach and I also painting, writing and carting her in an industry that loves to feed on its own liked twirling around it – I thought he was laptop and lap-dog Nina Simone back and young. She was a fiercely bright child, really cute.” forth between LA and New York, where she getting the equivalent of a high school At her teen A-list peak, she earned a $1 recently bought an apartment. certificate at 15, which meant she could million pay cheque for demented foster- “It’s hard because I went away for such do more hours on set. “My days were very, parent thriller The Glass House – and then a long time but little by little all of these very long but my mom would be there to vanished completely from screens. During things that I’ve been working on are coming enforce the rules and protect me…” She what she calls her “three-year pause”, out,” she enthuses. “I’m happy the way then alludes to Britney Spears’ meltdown: Sobieski enrolled at New York’s Brown everything is at the moment and I’m happy “It’s really easy – as we can see by a lot of University to study Fine Arts, completed for it to change. I live in the moment.” the stuff that’s been going on lately with the first year, took the next year off to “live 88 Minutes is released in the US on April 18 people who’ve been performing for a long with my [now ex-] boyfriend and cook him time – to take the wrong steps... But I was tortillas and eggs in the morning”, and then always super-protected.” went back to Brown. 000.
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