--- title: Sienna Miller Won't Take A 'Wife' Role description: The British actress says that criticism bothers her less these days and discusses why she was wary about taking on her newest role canonical: https://time.com/4734270/sienna-miller-the-lost-city-of-z/ author: Zamira Rahim article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-11T14:31:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:24.940Z og:title: Sienna Miller Explains How She Learned to Laugh at Criticism og:description: The British actress has outgrown her worries about the press og:url: https://time.com/4734270/sienna-miller-the-lost-city-of-z/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e25e9b2543cfc74/6988c24597cdff28b26b02f1/gettyimages-635230720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5160 og:image:height: 2903 og:image:alt: ENTERTAINMENT-GERMANY-FILM-FESTIVAL-cinema og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sienna Miller Explains How She Learned to Laugh at Criticism twitter:description: The British actress has outgrown her worries about the press twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e25e9b2543cfc74/6988c24597cdff28b26b02f1/gettyimages-635230720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Sienna Miller Learned to Laugh at Criticism — and Why She's Not Playing 'Wife' Roles > Sponsored content. 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Odd Anderse—AFP—Getty Images by [Zamira Rahim](https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/) ## Zamira Rahim Apr 11, 2017 2:31 PM UTC [Sienna Miller](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/09/british-tabloid-suspends-editor-over-alleged-sienna-miller-phone-hacking/) is used to paparazzi attention. The [actress](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2084083%5F2084082%5F2084132,00.html) has previously spoken about the effect that criticism and media attention has had on her life, but in a new interview with [_Elle_](http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a44446/sienna-miller-lost-city-z/), she says that it no longer bothers her. “I think as you get older, one of the nice things about growing up a little bit is that the things that you gave energy to are just totally misdirected and misguided,” [Miller](https://www.ft.com/content/d12fb0aa-16a5-11e1-bc1d-00144feabdc0) said. “Let people say whatever they want, if it’s not true.” Photographs emerged this week of Miller vacationing in Mexico. “Before, where I’d be like, ‘Argh!’ now I’m laughing,” she said. The star is busy promoting her new film, _The Lost City of Z,_ in which she plays suffragette Nina Fawcett. But she was wary before taking on the role. “I was worried she was just ‘a wife’ when I first read it,” Miller said. “I said, ‘I’m not going to do that. We really have to work and struggle and fight to give her her own story and her own voice.’ “ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4734270/sienna-miller-the-lost-city-of-z/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4734270/sienna-miller-the-lost-city-of-z/"},"headline":"How Sienna Miller Learned to Laugh at Criticism — and Why She's Not Playing 'Wife' Roles","datePublished":"2017-04-11T14:31:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:24.940Z","description":"Miller has outgrown worrying about the press","url":"https://time.com/4734270/sienna-miller-the-lost-city-of-z/","keywords":["motto","film","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e25e9b2543cfc74/6988c24597cdff28b26b02f1/gettyimages-635230720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zamira Rahim","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e25e9b2543cfc74/6988c24597cdff28b26b02f1/gettyimages-635230720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ENTERTAINMENT-GERMANY-FILM-FESTIVAL-cinema","caption":"ENTERTAINMENT-GERMANY-FILM-FESTIVAL-cinema","creditText":"Odd Anderse—AFP—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4734270/sienna-miller-the-lost-city-of-z/","name":"How Sienna Miller Learned to Laugh at Criticism — and Why She's Not Playing 'Wife' Roles"}}]}] ```