There are moments in Anatomy of a Scandal, a hotly anticipated Netflix thriller co-created by Big Little Lies showrunner David E Kelley — which drops on Friday, that must have felt rather uncanny for its star, Sienna Miller.
The 40-year-old actress plays Sophie Whitehouse, a politician’s wife who finds herself at the centre of a scrum after news breaks of her MP husband’s affair with a younger aide. When we see Sophie/Sienna emerging from a black cab outside her picture-perfect London home, trying to keep her expression firmly neutral as she is swarmed by reporters desperate for a headline-worthy reaction, it’s near impossible not to think back to 2005, when news broke that the then 23-year-old Miller’s fiancé Jude Law had been cheating on her with his children’s nanny. “I will not be the long-suffering spouse,” Sophie later tells husband James.
