Sienna Miller: I'm so proud at Tom's first night in No Quarter

Fiancé Sturridge is amazing and so is motherhood, says actress
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Emer Martin|Louise Jury17 January 2013
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Sienna Miller spoke of the joys of parenthood and her pride in fiancé Tom Sturridge as she attended his first-night performance in a new play.

The actress, 31, wore a faux mink coat to the Royal Court in Sloane Square to see Sturridge in No Quarter, the third of Polly Stenham’s trilogy on the damaged upper-middle classes.

Last week, she left Sturridge to put the finishing touches to his role as a drug-taking musician after flying to Los Angeles with her mother Josephine and baby Marlowe for the Golden Globe awards.

She said it had been “absolutely wonderful” to be nominated with “so many talented women” for best performance in a TV film for her role as Tippi Hedren in The Girl. She was competing against Nicole Kidman and Sigourney Weaver and lost out to Julianne Moore.

But last night was all about Sturridge. “I have come to see my boyfriend. He was absolutely amazing, and I am obviously really proud of him,” she said.

Miller, who gave birth to their daughter last July, added that “everything was great” about motherhood.

Sturridge, 26, who was last seen in the Jack Kerouac movie On the Road, said: “It’s an extraordinarily beautiful play and I wanted to be part of it. The fact it was written by someone I regard as a friend meant that I violently wanted to realise her vision.”

Sturridge, who was nominated for his role in Punk Rock in 2009 for outstanding newcomer in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, said he was so close to the drama that he could “scarcely articulate” what he admired about the play but was sanguine about the effort of playing the alcoholic innocent.

“For the next four weeks, he’s me,” he said. “I would feel churlish to call it draining when so many people do more difficult things.”

Stenham, 26, who was garlanded with awards for her debut That Face, used the first night to reveal finally the beliefs driving her writing — that young people today have been betrayed by the “bullshit” thinking of the Sixties generation. “It’s in the play — they thought they could take what they wanted and there would be no consequences,” she said.

“But I feel my generation are now dealing with a world that has been drunk. We’re at a do or die moment — there’s a perfect storm brewing and we’re probably f***ed, environmentally, economically. But we have to keep going on, be brave and choose to go on.”

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