Civitas Blog

While Sienna Miller's acting admittedly is never going to win her any awards, she certainly seems to deserve one simply for acting in the latest film that she is in process of making in New York, given a report about it posted yesterday on World Net Daily (hat-tip, as ever: Little Green Footballs).

The film is a re-make of one originally made in 2003 by Theo Van Gogh, who was brutally stabbed to death in Amsterdam a year later by an Islamist angered with the Dutch film-maker for having made a film for tv that was highly critical of Islam’s treatment of women.

Although the current film has nothing to do with Islam, because it is being made in tribute to the murdered director, Ms Miller has, along with her co-star, received threats warning she will be sorry unless she pulls out of the film.

Since these warning letters clearly have in mind something other than the disappointing reviews the film is likely to receive, one can only take off one’s hat to Ms Miller and her co-star for their determination to press on regardless of them.

Mind you, some starlets will do practically anything to keep themselves in the limelight.

Still, putting your life on the line to do a film surely goes well beyond the call of beauty, or at least of that particular one. Certainly, given what befell Theo van Gogh, the threats Ms Miller and her co-star have received cannot be taken lightly.

Three cheers then for Sienna!

We can only hope and pray that the only corpsing to which Ms Miller and co-star may fall victim on set is that from which a rapid recovery is possible upon a subsequent take.