“What did I find hard? Erm, all of it,” Ellie Bamber says laughing, but only just. Playing Kate Moss on the big screen was never going to be as simple as shrugging on the supermodel’s 1990s John Galliano Union Jack blazer and stumbling through the streets of London in front of a camera.
Not that either endeavour is unimportant. Bamber, 29, undertakes both convincingly in biopic Moss & Freud, out tomorrow. The film follows the model’s life between 2001 and 2002, when she sat nude for artist Lucian Freud three nights a week, from 7pm until late, over nine months, including while pregnant with her daughter Lila. The sittings resulted in Naked Portrait 2002, an almost life-size, full-length oil painting which sold at Christie’s for £3.9 million in 2005.
