Sienna Miller: 'I loved being detestable'

Sienna Miller has said that she grew to relish playing an unpleasant character on Broadway.

The actress appeared opposite Jonny Lee Miller in After Miss Julie, which closed last year.

Miller told Stylist: "In New York, the audiences were very vocal, which was quite difficult because my character in that play was quite poisonous as a person.

"Every night they'd be like, 'Oh, she's disgusting! What a vile woman', and it's hard not to take that personally.

"At first I was really trying to go for the sympathy vote, but by the end of it I sort of loved being detestable. I was ashen on the floor, spitting on Jonny. In the end I found it really liberating."

Asked if, as an actress, she could not disassociate herself from the role, Miller added: "A lot of what inhibits me is my attachment to what people think. I overcame a hurdle with After Miss Julie because I didn't need to be loved [by everybody]."

Quizzed on how she responds to online criticism of her as a person, she said: "I just don't read things. In our family we have a 'no Google' policy. In fact, I rarely use the internet. I don't even do social networking."