Warhol - The Movie

Sienna Miller is to play Andy Warhol’s drug-addicted muse Edie Sedgwick in new movie Factory Girl. Jude Law’s estranged fiancee had been touted for the role earlier this year but dropped out. Factory Girl director George Hickenlooper said she was offered the role again last month when Tom Cruise’s new love, Katie Holmes, pulled out. He said Miller was able to take the part of the original It girl, who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971, because filming was pushed back. The director denied that it had anything to do with Miller’s increased media profile since Law confessed to sleeping with his children’s nanny. Guy Pearce is set to play Warhol. For the full story - click the title Irish Art