For Ellie Bamber, successfully capturing Kate Moss‘ effortless charm wasn’t just about nailing her voice, style, or any of the fashion icon’s mannerisms. What unlocked Moss — depicted for the first time onscreen by the rising star in Moss & Freud — was mastering her laugh. “Her laugh is so specific,” begins the actress to The Hollywood Reporter. “It was, weirdly, really important to me.”
Bamber, a former child actor, has slowly climbed the ranks of the British film and television industry to join a select group of young talent now making a name for themselves on a global stage, such as Masters of the Universe star Nicholas Galitzine, an old pal of Bamber’s, or The Little Mermaid‘s Jonah Hauer-King. She nabbed parts in 2016’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Nocturnal Animals, as well as the small screen’s The Trial of Christine Keeler. Then came one of 2023’s buzziest streamer adaptations: Red, White & Royal Blue, in which Bamber played fan-favorite Princess Bea.
Now, she faces what is almost certainly the most daunting role of her career so far: the supermodel of all supermodels and one of the most photographed women in the world, Kate Moss. In Moss & Freud, from director James Lucas and out in U.K. cinemas Friday, audiences are privy to Moss’ much-talked-about friendship with the late artist Lucian Freud (played by Derek Jacobi), whose nude portrait of the A-lister sold for around £3.5 million ($5.3m) in 2005.
