The former downtown it girl and Sassy magazine intern rose to wider fame thanks to 's Kids , picked up an Oscar nomination in for Boys Don't Cry , gained status as a queen of indie cinema, and then took a part in 's Brown Bunny. The film required her to perform "unsimulated" fellatio on director, costar, and former boyfriend Vincent Gallo and the world absolutely lost it. Before the film's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, there were false reports that her then-representatives at William Morris Agency dropped her. The agency still represents her. It was a different time. Paris Hilton's sex tape wasn't even out then, and it really seemed like Sevigny's career would be forever tarnished by one scene. Of course, the actress was kind of 'whatever' about it then, and is even more so now. Especially because, well, as it turns out her career wasn't ruined by the incident. In fact, she recently explained that part of her reason she decided to do it was to push back against her growing fame at the time, and, ironically, it might have helped her in the long run. As it turned out director John Waters whose film Pink Flamingo also featured unsimulated fellatio happened to be in the audience, and Sevigny gave him a shout out.
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I said I thought it was the worst film in the history of the festival. That was hyperbole -- I hadn't seen every film in the history of the festival -- but I was still vibrating from one of the most disastrous screenings I had ever attended. The audience was loud and scornful in its dislike for the movie; hundreds walked out, and many of those who remained only stayed because they wanted to boo. Imagine, I wrote, a film so unendurably boring that when the hero changes into a clean shirt, there is applause. The panel of critics convened by Screen International, the British trade paper, gave the movie the lowest rating in the history of their annual voting. But then a funny thing happened. Gallo went back into the editing room and cut 26 minutes of his minute film, or almost a fourth of the running time.
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Even before her movie debut in Kids in , author Jay McInerney profiled her for The New Yorker , labelling her "the coolest girl in the world" after she modelled for Sassy magazine and appeared in a video by rock band Sonic Youth. She lived up to the cool moniker by appearing in edgy film roles and several seasons creating fashion lines carrying her name, for her friends at the fashion retailer Opening Ceremony. There was also an autobiographical book on her personal fashion style that came out in Yet the early fame also meant she suffered from casting-couch problems. She handled the situations when they arose. But I ask if, looking back, she feels she had too much fame too soon? I was insecure. What she does regret is all the acting jobs she let pass by.
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