Leelee Sobieski

Black flecked pony skin trench coat with patent leather trim and belt PAULE KA, shoes PIERRE HARDY

Dolce Vita
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM 
photography TERRY RICHARDSON 

 

One funny, flirty, five-minute performance in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut by Liliane Roudabeh Elvieta Gloria “LEELEE” SOBIESKI” seduces Tom Cruise and sends the child actress to the top of the hill of artistic promise. But she quits acting at 18. Goes to university. And now, at 23, she’s back with half a dozen movies coming out this year, including The Wicker Man, with Nicolas Cage, and 88 Minutes, with Al Pacino. We talked to her in New York, after the screening in Cannes of M. Blash’s Lying.

OLIVIER ZAHM — How many movies have you worked on?
LEELEE SOBIESKI — In the last two years I made six or eight. Can’t remenber exactly!…