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– a biopic centred around her relationship with the late Lucian Freud – is officially in production in London; here’s everything we know so far about the film. Ellie Bamber will appear as the supermodel British actor Ellie Bamber will appear as Moss in the movie, while Emmy winner Derek Jacobi will take a turn as Freud. Bamber is due to embody the model throughout the Noughties, a decade in which she dated Jefferson Hack, welcomed her daughter Lila and entered her 30s in fabulous, frenetic fashion.

The first pap shots from the set show Ellie wearing a recreation of the navy sequined gown Kate slipped into for her -themed 30th at Claridge’s (the look originally belonged to Bond girl Britt Ekland, who bought it for the 1974 premiere of ). is set during an intense period of Moss’s life Freud painted Moss over the course of nine months during her pregnancy with daughter Lila. “He taught me discipline, because I could not be late,” Moss recalled , with their sessions lasting from 7pm to 2am, three nights a week.



“If I was five minutes late, he would kick off. But only once I was five minutes late, and he said, ‘Are you on drugs?!’ And I said, ‘No, I’m pregnant!’” Famously, Freud first approached Moss after she mentioned in a conversation with that one of her ambitions in life included being the subject of one of his portraits – in spite of the fact that he rarely painted celebrities. Their relationship would prove transformational for them both, with .

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