Factory Girl (2006) on Netflix
Edie Sedgwick leaves Cambridge for New York City and becomes the muse of artist Andy Warhol, starring in his underground movies. Her friend Syd introduces her to folk singer Billy Quinn.
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Plot summary
Edie Sedgwick grew up on a California ranch in a prestigious family and has been studying art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She and her friend Chuck Wein move to New York City, where she meets Andy Warhol, a pop art painter who also makes underground films. He is intrigued by her and asks her to appear in one of them; she performs in several and becomes his muse, joining the bohemian circle around his studio, the Silver Factory. The films and her work as a fashion model bring her fame. Her Cambridge friend Syd visits and introduces her to Billy Quinn, a folk singer; the two begin a relationship, and Andy becomes jealous.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Factory Girl (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Katie Holmes was set to star as Sedgwick, but it was reported that Tom Cruise convinced her not to do it because it would be bad for her image. Holmes said she declined the role based on her own decisions about the movie, and that she would have had to drop out anyway because she was pregnant.
- Bob Dylan threatened to sue, saying through his lawyers that the script insinuated his responsibility in Sedgwick's drug abuse and death. Although the name of the character in question was changed to Billy Quinn, Dylan still attempted to halt the film's release.
- Lou Reed, singer-songwriter of the Velvet Underground and one of the Factory people who knew Sedgwick, hated the film, telling the New York Daily News that there was no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money.
- Sienna Miller defended the film against Dylan's allegations, telling the Guardian that it blames Warhol more than anyone because he did abandon her, that she needed help and no one helped her, and that it is not that Dylan drove her to heroin addiction.
- In the autumn of 2008 Hickenlooper uploaded a rough director's cut of the film to YouTube, now referred to as The Unseen Director's Cut, but it was removed because the Weinstein Company owned the footage and the material was not authorized for release.
