Mia featured in “Teen Vogue”

February 1st, 2010 • E-Articles, Magazine, Photoshoots

Hello visitors,

Mia is featured in March’s issue of Teen Vogue, which goes on sale February 9th! And they have an online article on her, including some stunning photos of Mia behind the scenes of their photoshoot!

The original story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins with a bored little girl making the ill-considered decision to follow a foppish rabbit down a very steep hole. As she falls (and falls), she ponders whether cats eat bats and considers what life is like in Australia, where she imagines that people “walk with their heads downwards” and where she expects—given the duration of her tumble—that she might very well end up.

So perhaps it’s only fitting that the tale of Mia Wasikowska (pronounced Vah-shee-kov-ska), the 20-year-old Australian actress who’s been picked to star in a new big-screen adaptation of the classic book, starts in what Brits call the Antipodes. Like Alice, young Mia was at loose ends, looking around for something fun to do, when she set her sights on distant Hollywood. The ex-ballerina daughter of two visual artists was attracted to filmmaking because of the opportunity she felt it would afford her to “express a feeling” without having to worry, as she did in dance, about achieving physical perfection first. Not that Mia didn’t have other concerns: Although she was only fourteen, she felt positively over-the-hill. “I thought, Oh, what’s the point, I’m much too old to start acting,” she reports with a giggle. ” ‘Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.’ ” Nevertheless, she began telephoning talent agents in Sydney, about 150 miles from her native Canberra, and when one finally answered, she made an appointment. “I was really adamant,” she explains. “I was trying to make it work.”

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