Her stark appearance is both modern and unknowable, making her an unsettling muse. Bambi-eyed, bare-browed and with pale skin and hair of a similar shade, Goth looks like a Deviant Art version of Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring”. Ironically, her raw scenes in The Survivalist and Nymphomaniac have earned her acclaim, not controversy, while the Miu Miu ads drew fire for presenting her as ‘underage’ for reasons no one can really quantify. Anyone attempting to typecast her will be left scratching their heads. If a part speaks to her, she won’t cease until she’s created a whole new language around it and made it her own. That someone willing to co-opt the lifestyle of a feral wretch could also be tasked with playing ambassadress to Miuccia Prada’s line speaks to the genius contradictory streak Goth is clearly cultivating in her work. When the movie that Goth gave up basic hygiene, nutrition and sanity for hits cinemas this winter, she’ll also be unmissable in a widely promoted campaign for Miu Miu. “You don’t feel you have to prove to yourself that you are that character, because you really are living (in) that world.” They even camped out to channel their characters’ sense of terminal desolation. Though it’s easy to marvel at such dedication, Goth says the whole cast shared a similar commitment to the project, shot in Northern Ireland last year. I didn’t wash my body, hair, clothes or anything for the entirety of the shoot.” Every day I would just pack my bag and start walking through the beaches and the forest. I had a boiled egg in the morning, some nuts later on and I would just walk. “I lived on a very strict diet because food wasn’t in abundance,” she explains. Goth threw herself into the role with grim intensity, pushing herself to physical extremes. ![]() In a Darwinian exchange of sex for shelter, and young blood devouring old, Goth becomes the survivalist’s sole sanctuary and source of hope. In apocalyptic thriller The Survivalist, Goth plays Milja, the teenage daughter of a beleaguered, ageing mother (Olwen Fouéré) desperate for refuge with a hermit character (Martin McCann), the titular survivalist. “Roles that are far away from me – the further away the better! You have to take that step and morph yourself into someone else.” On the phone from Berlin one morning, Goth sounds lovely – a chirpy conversationalist with a crisp, expressive British accent that feels ten shades lighter than the difficult characters she embodies. “I just love roles that scare me,” the 21-year-old says. And yet, through unrelenting roles in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac to Stephen Fingleton’s forthcoming The Survivalist and a strangely controversial Miu Miu campaign, there’s a thrilling sense that Goth is only just getting warmed up. The upstart instigator gone apocalyptic straight out the gate. The partner (in crime) of Hollywood apostate Shia LaBeouf. ![]() The inscrutable model who has angered media watchdogs by simply looking like herself. She’s the actress who has pissed on a French icon. ![]() Mia Goth, not quite a star yet, is already primed to be notorious. Taken from the autumn/winter 2015 issue of Dazed:
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