SUKI WATERHOUSE
SHAPESHIFTER | Model, Actor, and Musician
The model and actor made her name in front of the camera—but it’s music, her most recent pursuit, that has captured her heart. Her second album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, seals her fate as a renaissance woman for the Internet age.
WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT? I’ve been thinking a lot about the upper deck of a London bus and how much it formed me. It can be one of the most peaceful places on earth or the most horrendous. It’s where all worlds collide, and I really miss it.
WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE? Miroslav Tichý’s photographs. A teacher taught me that he built his own cameras out of cardboard and clandestinely photographed thousands of women in public. He kept his work secret for years—it was later discovered by a neighbor. It made me feel like I could watch, document, and create privately and it helped me understand that that process, at the time, was all for myself.
“I loved to interview my parents’ friends, especially about their divorces.”
WHAT’S SOMETHING PEOPLE GET WRONG ABOUT YOU? Sometimes I read that people think I’m from an aristocratic English bloodline.
WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT WERE YOU KNOWN FOR? I loved to interview my parents’ friends, especially about their divorces.
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