Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut has been slated by most critics – but she did win praise for her “great legs”.
The actress appeared on the opening night of After Miss Julie in New York on Thursday.
Sienna, 27, stars alongside Jonny Lee Miller as an aristocrat’s daughter in the play by Patrick Marber, a reworking of Strindberg’s 1888 classic Miss Julie.
But critics were less than impressed by her performance.
New York Times’ Ben Brantley wrote: “If Julie’s written as clashing chords of conflicted impulses, Ms Miller plays them like a novice at a piano, plunking down each note loudly and individually.”
He said that she should be praised for her “good diction, good posture and great legs”.
He continues: “Commendable as these attributes are, they are of limited use in portraying a tautly wound, death-courting neurotic who is eaten alive by her own demons.”
Meanwhile, Terry Teachout, the Wall Street Journal’s theatre critic, said: “A model turned second-tier movie star, all she does is stalk around the stage striking vampy poses. She has no more business playing a classic stage role than I have posing for the cover of Vogue.”
Miller is appearing at Manhattan’s American Airlines Theatre – a block away from where ex-boyfriend Jude Law is starring in Hamlet.
It is New York-born Miller’s first theatre role since As You Like It in the West End in 2005.