Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming film.
What is Moss & Freud about?
Set in 2002 at the height of her fame, the film will focus on Moss’ experience of sitting for English painter Freud.
Freud was famous for avoiding celebrity placements, but the artist had a change of heart and contacted Moss after she revealed in an i-D magazine interview that one of her goals in life was to be a subject of one of his paintings, per Art Republic.
But it wasn’t easy. Moss famously sat for him for three to seven days a week from 7pm to 2am, during which time the pair forged an unlikely friendship.
“He taught me discipline, because I could not be late,” Moss told ShowStudio. “If I was five minutes late, he would kick off. But only once I was five minutes late, and he said, ‘Are you on drugs?!’ And I said, ‘No, I’m pregnant!’”
Who’s acting in it?
British actor Ellie Bamber, 26, who recently starred in The Serpent, landed the lead role as Moss, while Emmy Award winner Derek Jacobi, 84, will play Freud, stated Variety.
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Who’s behind it?
Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Phone Call James Lucas is in charge of writing the upcoming project.
“After watching The Phone Call, I knew that James [Lucas] would convey the emotion in the storytelling in a fitting way, one this memoir deserves,” Moss said in a statement. “Having been involved in the project and script development from the beginning, I am now very excited to see the film come to life.”
Moss herself, now 49, will be producing alongside GFG Films and Matthew Metcalfe, with official support of the Lucian Freud Archive, according to reports.
Lucian Freud was a really big deal – and still is
The famous painter specialised in figurative art and is considered to be one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists of all time. Not to mention he was the grandson of Sigmund Freud himself.
Titled Naked Portrait 2002, his artwork depicting Moss was bought by a private collector at Christie’s Auction House for US$7.7 million in 2005, setting a new record for Freud’s selling price, as per Today.
Christie’s said in a statement that the almost life-size portrait of Moss “is very rare in Freud’s oeuvre for being one of only a few portraits the artist has painted of well-known or famous people”.
Freud died in July 2011 at the age of 88.
The painting wasn’t the only art Freud created with Moss
What’s better than being painted by one of the most famous artists in the world? Being tattooed by one of the most famous artists in the world. Freud also ended up tattooing a pair of swallows on Moss’s lower back.
“He told me about when he was in the navy, when he was 19 or something, and he used to do all of the tattoos for the sailors,” she told Vanity Fair. “And I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing.’ And he went, ‘I can do you one.’”
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Of course, having a Freud tattoo is practically priceless.
“If it all goes horribly wrong I could get a skin graft and sell it! It’s probably the only one on skin that’s still around, because when he was in the navy he was about 19. Can you imagine?”
