Many commenters have pointed it out, but I only realized this recently - Sienna Miller loves to play the victim. Most recently, Sienna’s interview in Vogue was a study in the push-pull of Sienna’s own victim complex. She talked on and on about Jude Law and what had happened between them (re: the nanny), and how she was in a different place, all of which was designed to make us remember “poor Sienna”. Meanwhile, she only made some cryptic allusions to her on-again relationship with married Balthazar Getty, saying she was “naïve and trusting”. Let me point out - Balthazar is an extreme douchebag, and I’m not absolving him of his fair share in the culpability of this affair. He’s the one who is married, but for her part, no one is forcing Sienna to wander around topless with him month after month.

Unlike many of the celebrity girls with a martyr complex, Sienna has never and will never be a poster girl for The Sisterhood. But she’s trying! After the scandal with Sienna dropping out the Russell Crowe version of Robin Hood, some sources (Sienna’s people) went around complaining about how Sienna was just too young, thin and beautiful for the role. Sienna is now trying to roll that back, saying that the casting of Cate Blanchett was “better”. She even describes all of these rumors as part of some vague “vendetta”:

Sienna Miller has insisted she holds no grudges against Cate Blanchett for taking a film role she was originally meant to play.

The actress was initially down to portray Maid Marian in Ridley Scott’s epic Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe, but the role was recast to Oscar winner Cate.

“Cate’s 10 years older than me, which is more suitable for the script,” Sienna told Total Film magazine. “The script kept changing and evolving to the point where I was no longer appropriate for it.”

She also admitted: “If they’d recast with Keira Knightley I’d have been heartbroken but they’ve gone for something different - and better in my opinion.”

“If I had the choice between Cate Blanchett and me I’d go for Cate Blanchett.”

Sienna also hinted she thought there was a “vendetta” against her in the media.

“There were several people supposed to be doing the film who no longer are but because it’s me it becomes this enormous drama - I think it’s a Sienna thing! There’s just a vendetta against… I don’t know.”

“Films take two-and-a-half years to come out. I understand why I made them at the time but I’m absolutely not there now. I have to be more strategic in the choices I make.”

[From Total Film UK via The Press Association]

Sienna is one of those young stars who needs a really great publicist, and she needs to learn how to take career advice. Someone needs to sit her down and explain in detail that people don’t have a “vendetta” against her, we just think she’s rather trashy, drunk, narcissistic and trampy because we’ve been provided with lots of evidence. Doesn’t Sienna have good representation? Someone to tell her to break it off with Balthazar for good, and maybe give one interview where she takes some responsibility?

Here’s Sienna taking a wine tasting trip with friends in the Bordeaux region of south France on June 26th. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.