Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock, Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren, The Girl The Girl is a BBC biopic about Alfred Hitchcock's Svengali-like relationship with Tippi Hedren, the star of the director's seminal The Birds (1963) and the box-office and critical flop Marnie (1964). Toby Jones, next to be seen in The Hunger Games and Snow White and the Huntsman, plays Hitchcock, while Stardust / Factory Girl's Sienna Miller (also known as one of dozens of phone-hacking victims of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The News of the World) plays Hedren. According to the 82-year-old Hedren — a The Girl consultant, mother of Melanie Griffith, and avid supporter of animal welfare — her career went downhill after Marnie because of Hitchcock, who, Hedren claims, was spurned by her. Hedren told the Daily Mail that Hitchcock, who discovered her in the early '60s while she was between marriages, "wanted to possess me completely. There were...
- 3/21/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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