Mia featured in “Teen Vogue”

February 1st, 2010 • By Tran :: 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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“Vanity Fair” Class of 2010 Spread

February 1st, 2010 • By Tran :: E-Articles, Magazine, Photoshoots

Hello everyone,

In the upcoming Vanity Fair magazine, you will find that the lovely Mia is part of the magazine’s Class of 2010 spread. Below is an online article in relation to the preparation of the photoshoot.

Mia Wasikowska, 20, is the daughter of a Polish photographer mother and an Australian painter-and-collagist father. Her breakthrough on the HBO series In Treatment, as the fragile and yet fierce gymnast Sophie, suggested a deep intelligence and a reservoir of talent. Director Edward Zwick cast her in Defiance, about a group of Polish Jews banding together to escape the Nazis. Next she will play the title role in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, the love interest in Gus Van Sant’s next film, and the daughter of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening, two gay moms, in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right.

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Furthermore, you can watch the Behind the Scenes of the shoot, which I have also screen capped.

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TeenVogue – Young Hollywood 2008

September 6th, 2008 • By Tran :: Magazine, Photoshoots

Hello everyone,

Warm thanks to Annika for notifying us of Mia’s feature in the Teen Vogue website.

Mia Wasikowska, Cate, Nicole, Russell—and now Mia. As the newest rider on the Australian fame train, this eighteen-year-old is in good company. Just four years after she started acting, Mia has already starred in HBO’s intense series In Treatment, and has filmed two big movies: Defiance, a Holocaust drama, with Daniel Craig, and Amelia, the Oscar-courting biopic of Amelia Earhart, with Hilary Swank. But her greatest coup so far is landing the lead role in Tim Burton’s 3-D production of Alice in Wonderland. Still, Mia has managed to keep things in perspective. “There’s the kind of fame where people follow you around on the street and talk about your bum,” she explains. “And then there’s the kind where you’re known for your work. I prefer the latter.” –DANIELLE NUSSBAUM

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