5/7/2023 0 Comments Gabriella wilde agent![]() ![]() It was easier for me to establish myself under a different identity, and I want to be doing it on my own.” I wanted to distance myself from modeling and some of the gossip press that existed around me and my family. “It’s a mouthful, and it felt appropriate to leave it behind. “No one could say it right,” she says of her lengthy name. It sounds bizarre, but I felt liberated after I really loved it, like I’d finally found something I enjoyed.”Īll too aware of preconceptions about any model turned actor, she adopted the snappier moniker Gabriella Wilde. When I agreed to the audition, I didn’t tell anyone. I was never in the school plays like them-I wanted to be a painter. “I have sisters who act, and I’d always seen it as their thing. But soon she was asked to read for a bit part, and the rest, as they say, is history. I almost dreaded getting work.” So she sent herself back to school with renewed focus on her childhood ambition of being an artist. “I was earning money, but I didn’t feel any sense of achievement when I was booking jobs. “I went into it full-time, but only lasted three months. It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.”Īs a young model Wilde scored bookings for Vogue and Abercrombie & Fitch campaigns, and then quit her formal education, at age 17, to focus on her profession. ![]() I mean, a trailer-trash homeless girl couldn’t really be further from who I am. “I do find something interesting about dark characters. “It’s been brilliant,” she says of her recent projects. This year she will play a homeless drug addict, in the independent film Squatters, as well as popular high schooler Sue Snell in this fall’s Kimberly Peirce remake of Stephen King’s horror classic Carrie, costarring Julianne Moore and Chloë Moretz. as the face of Burberry, but thanks to her debut role in 2011’s The Three Musketeers, she is now one to watch on the silver screen. Recently though, Wilde has launched a career that is all her own. She is referring, of course, to her privileged upbringing and the tendency of the British press to harshly judge her family and good fortune. “The film industry there couldn’t be less interested in my past.” “I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me it’s in America,” Wilde says. A sign of things to come, those snapshots led to Wilde signing with Campbell’s agency. When we meet in London, Wilde is casually recounting quite telling stories, like when family friend and legendary fashion editor Isabella Blow dressed her, at age 14, in multicolor couture gowns for fashion shoots, or when she met Naomi Campbell at a dinner party and the supermodel promptly sneaked her off to the bathroom to shoot her first model Polaroids. ![]()
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