{"id":27719,"date":"2014-02-25T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=27719"},"modified":"2015-01-05T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:29:30","slug":"suki-waterhouse-rollacoaster-issue-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/02\/25\/suki-waterhouse-rollacoaster-issue-11\/","title":{"rendered":"SUKI WATERHOUSE – ROLLACOASTER, ISSUE 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
Suki Waterhouse is this year\u2019s high profile multitasker – juggling music-making, a Hollywood acting career, fashion campaigns and SMS politics with lover Bradley Cooper. Hell, we\u2019ve all been there.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n Suki Waterhouse is full of flu and, as she admits to Rollacoaster on the day of her cover shoot, is \u201cat the her most vulnerable. Ask me anything, I\u2019ll probably tell you the truth,\u201d she says. Does this mean she\u2019ll finally talk to the press about her relationship with fellow actor Bradley Cooper? \u201cOh god, probably. Journalists have given up even trying. But go on, then.\u201d (Earlier that day, Waterhouse is overheard whispering relationship mantra \u201ctreat \u2018em mean, keep \u2018em keen,\u201d after receiving a text from Cooper. \u201cYou have to give it an hour or so before answering\u2026\u201d).<\/p>\n Things didn\u2019t get any less strange in the half an hour I spent chatting to the London-born model and big screen hope. We careen everywhere from her adolescence, which was spent on Burberry sets as the brand\u2019s ash blonde avatar rather than at sixth form college, to her biggest film role to date alongside the likes of Lily Collins and Sam Claflin in US rom com, Love, Rosie \u2013 out later this year. Before it wraps, she promised to send me some of the music she\u2019s started to make, and ten minutes later a track called \u201cLeopard on the Run\u201d drops into my inbox (think Sky Ferreira-meets-The Cardigans; smooth synth-pop. It\u2019s great.). Here\u2019s how things unfolded.<\/p>\n How was today?<\/b><\/p>\n Yes, great. Someone coughed in my face on the plane earlier, though.<\/p>\n You just shot a campaign for Italian shoe brand Superga. What else were you in LA for?<\/b><\/p>\n I had lots of meetings for film projects I\u2019m doing. I got offered something and I can\u2019t do it, because I don\u2019t have a bloody acting Visa. You have one for modelling and a separate one for acting, apparently. I can\u2019t really talk about it, but it was a TV show part.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve always wondered how models deal with seeing their faces on billboards. How do you digest something like that?<\/b><\/p>\n It\u2019s good, but I\u2019m pretty hard on myself. I\u2019m never over the moon about it, or anything. I\u2019m always more focused on what I\u2019m not doing and should be doing, rather than what\u2019s actually happening. I\u2019m always asking: \u2018What do I need to do now?\u2019 I don\u2019t really feel like I\u2019m fulfilled yet, in my career. I probably never will be.<\/p>\n What is fulfilment for you? Is it making a fun new film like Love, Rosie, or pursuing other passions of yours, like photography?<\/b><\/p>\n To be honest with you, taking pictures is like a fun hobby. I\u2019m doing an exhibition in LA called Girl With A Gun soon – but it\u2019s not like I want to be a professional photographer.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Who are your favourite photographers?<\/b><\/p>\n Sally Mann. She\u2019s the bomb. I really like James Kelly\u2019s work, too. I don\u2019t know if you know him, but he takes pictures of bums in LA.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s talk about your modelling career. You were scouted in a bar when you were 16, right?<\/b><\/p>\n It was in a club on Oxford Street. I was out and shouldn\u2019t have been, really. Someone asked me and I thought about it for like a year. It was only really when I signed to (modelling agency) Next that I started taking it seriously. I just felt comfortable with them, and they nurtured me into it. I was so lucky, because I got to train with Sarah Leon. She\u2019s an amazing agent and got me some early special bookings. We hit it off – I was quite lucky. After that, I just stopped going to college. They charged my parents loads of tuition fees still, and they weren\u2019t very happy.<\/p>\n