Claire Danes is probably one of the last celebrities I expected to see on the cover of ASOS Magazine, but she covers the May 2012 issue and I think it’s one of her strongest editorials to date. Photographer Danielle Levitt and the ASOS team flew out to the Chateau Marmont in LA to shoot Claire Danes in in Spring’s tropical prints. Does the styling remind anyone else of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rome + Juliet wardrobe? It makes me very, very happy!
Here’s a preview of Claire’s ASOS interview:
On Romeo + Juliet: “That was a lot of fun. If you’re going to be an ingénue, that’s the one to be – the ultimate. I saw Leo the other day and in some ways, our dynamic is absolutely the same, but then it’s like, ‘Oh, but wait, we’re big fat grown-ups!’”
On fashion: “I’m a sales slut. I’m just very seduced by a sale. In New York buying clothes is fun, because it really is boutiquey. I like Legacy and Opening Ceremony, and I love Prada. I have a lot of J Brand and Citizens of Humanity jeans. It’s funny with jeans now, because if they don’t feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don’t have patience for them anymore! I think I’m becoming increasingly lazy.”
On British TV show The Only Way is Essex: ”Damn, I love that show. TOWIE is just so good. We don’t have anything that rivals it. I don’t even care if it’s real or not, it’s thoroughly entertaining.”
Read more from Claire’s ASOS interview and see the rest of her editorial after the jump…
On the country-house she owns with husband Hugh Dancy: “The country house is beautiful (a couple hours upstate) – there is nobody around except cows, so no judgements. I can look like absolute hell, and not worry about it. I was terrified when we moved in that it would be haunted. It’s not. Well, if it is, it’s haunted by very happy people.”
On her decision to join Homeland: “It was a leap of faith for all of us. We only had the faintest sense of where the writers were going to take the story, and I think they were discovering it themselves as they went along, which is one of the reasons television can be so exciting. But it’s always just such a relief when a story that you care about and a character that you’ve worked so terribly hard to create manages to translate.”
On My So-Called Life: “I was 13 when I did the pilot and I was inexperienced. I knew that the show was special though – it was so fresh, even kind of revolutionary. Devon Gummersall (Brian Krakow) and Devon Odessa (Sharon Cherski) are dear friends of mine. If I’m in LA, I still have Thanksgiving with Bess Armstrong who played my mother. We’re all really, very close. Those gigs don’t happen very often.”
Are you a Claire Danes fan? What do you make of her ASOS Magazine cover shoot?
all images courtesy of ASOS
