Chloë Sevigny is constantly raising the bar in fashion and film, and now it's time for her to spill the tea. From her iconic POV, she shares what's hot and what's not, including who her favorite current style icon is. Chloë even reflects on embarrassing on-set mishaps, favorite co-stars, and more!
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00:00Now, looking back, I was like, I was so young.
00:01I could have done everything.
00:03I wasn't tired back then.
00:04I'm almost 50.
00:05I'm like, now I'm tired.
00:06Like, what were you thinking?
00:08Hi, I'm Chloe Seveni.
00:10And today, I'm going to let Elle ask me anything.
00:17I mean, it seems like every trend from the 90s
00:19has come back, so it's hard to pick one that hasn't.
00:22You really don't like a, like,
00:25I can't remember what they even call it,
00:26like a soft floppy hat.
00:28Slouchy beanie?
00:29Yes.
00:30And I feel like actors, especially LA actors,
00:33love that look.
00:34I'm like, I don't want to see a slouchy beanie.
00:36If I see a slouchy beanie,
00:37it's the end of the world for me.
00:40Oh, that's a complicated question.
00:42I thought it was nice to see that Gypsy Rose
00:46had come to New York and was enjoying Times Square
00:49and enjoying her life.
00:51I mean, she grew up with so much suffering.
00:53And I mean, what her mother, you know,
00:56did to her is just shocking and appalling.
00:59And I don't even have words for it.
01:02So I'm glad that she's learning how to own herself
01:06and finding some joy and love in life.
01:10She's still guilty of murder, but yeah.
01:11Other than that.
01:14A Gen Z fashion trend that I love.
01:18I like the fluidity.
01:20I like, you know, the boys and girls,
01:22the girls and boys, the kind of, you know,
01:24I think that that's my favorite part
01:26of the new generation coming up,
01:27that kind of anything goes.
01:29I feel like you can see people on the carpet wearing things
01:32and it's not criticized anymore.
01:33There's more openness, there's more freedom,
01:36there's more acceptance.
01:36And I think that that's great.
01:39My favorite Ryan Murphy show besides Feud,
01:42Capote vs. The Swans,
01:44is probably the first season of American Horror Story.
01:47I was terrified.
01:50Terrified, shocked, surprised.
01:53Couldn't like walk into the other room alone.
01:56I was shook by that show.
01:57I had no idea that's where I was going
01:59and hauntings, ghosts are definitely something
02:03that I've always been very scared of and believe in.
02:06And so I will say that first season really shook my world.
02:12Which celebrities do I look to for fashion inspiration?
02:17The way Hunter Schafer owns herself on the carpet.
02:19I think she really balances like modern cuts
02:24with this like a classical elegance.
02:26I think that she really, I mean, she's like a supermodel
02:28and she pulls everything off.
02:29But I think her red carpet and casual style
02:32is really inspiring.
02:36It's funny, I was also watching Just Like That.
02:39If I had to pick one, I mean, can I say Carrie?
02:43I guess so, I don't know.
02:44Weirdly, I've never asked myself who I am.
02:46Maybe I'm a Miranda, probably.
02:51The co-star I'd least like to get into a feud with
02:54is probably Diane Lane.
02:55She's kind of a tough broad.
02:56I have a feeling she could make you feel pretty unwelcome
03:00and unwanted and I feel like a little more intimidated
03:03by her than the others between you and I and the internet.
03:07That's a verbatim.
03:11My favorite part of 1960s fashion,
03:15it was just like such an opening.
03:16It was such a like the times changed
03:19and there was such freedom of expression.
03:21For me, I'm kind of known for my legs,
03:23so a mini with like a, you know, a boot.
03:27But I think it's more also just hair.
03:29I love hair, I love furry big hair
03:31and I think like just that everyone kind of just let it go.
03:34Probably my favorite.
03:34I don't know if it's really fashion, it's more beauty.
03:37I think one of my roles is the most underrated.
03:41Maybe it was in Russian Doll, my friend Natasha Lyonne show.
03:45I play her mother who's suffering from schizophrenia
03:49and it's a small part but very poignant
03:51and I don't think that I got enough notices for that
03:54for what I did in that show.
03:56I tend to get a lot of advice from other actors.
03:59I think one of the best is compare and despair.
04:01I think because you so often are seeing
04:04other actresses get parts.
04:05Run your own race.
04:06I know everybody's gonna have their time to do their thing.
04:11My favorite co-star in my career thus far
04:14is probably Jean Tribblehorn on Big Love.
04:16She played the older sister wife Barb
04:19and we just gelled.
04:21I don't know, we were both really into music.
04:23We had a really fun time on set.
04:25I used to go and stay at her house.
04:27She would just really take care of me.
04:28We shot out west, I lived in New York
04:30and she really became this like sister, mother figure
04:34and I'll always cherish how much
04:36she took care of me out there.
04:39Trying to think of the most embarrassing onset mishap
04:41I think is always not knowing lines.
04:42I remember once I did the Mindy project
04:44and for some reason I could not get these lines out
04:47and I started crying.
04:49And they were so in the flow of it.
04:51It's a great sitcom and they've been doing it for years
04:54and they have this rapport and I came in
04:56and I was like, I'm only here for these couple days
04:58and I couldn't get it out.
04:59I was so embarrassed.
05:01I wanted to just crawl into whatever kind of trailer
05:05I had at the time and never come out
05:08and it's just very frustrating, embarrassing
05:10when you have so little to do
05:13and you can't seem to do it.
05:15There were so many roles for my career,
05:17so many great filmmakers that approached me
05:19wanting to be in their films, notably John Waters
05:24and I always regret that because I'm such a huge
05:26John Waters fan.
05:27There was something about the timing.
05:29This French filmmaker, Claire Denis,
05:31wanted me to be in something
05:32who was one of my favorite directors
05:34and I just remember when those offers were made to me,
05:39I don't know, the timing just seemed wrong
05:41and now looking back, I was like, I was so young.
05:43I could have done everything.
05:44I wasn't tired back then.
05:46I'm almost 50.
05:46I'm like, now I'm tired.
05:48What were you thinking?
05:50So I'm still like, oh well.
05:54If I had to live anywhere other than New York,
05:57I always say if New York fell off, I would move to Pittsburgh.
06:00I've shot there a few times
06:01and they call it the Paris of Appalachia.
06:06The last place I would want to live is Los Angeles.
06:09Sorry.
06:10I feel like there's a lot of driving.
06:11I feel like it's very isolating.
06:13I find it very bright.
06:14I find the sunshine monotonous.
06:17I don't like how dry it is.
06:18I don't like how hard the water is.
06:20I don't like that it's a town built around the industry
06:23that I work in.
06:24It makes me feel very self-conscious
06:25and uncomfortable in my own skin.
06:27I don't like the terrain.
06:28I don't like the vegetation.
06:29Sorry.
06:34My go-to hype song.
06:36Usually it's like my go-to cry song
06:39but if I had a hype song right now.
06:41I have a three and a half year old
06:43so sorry to say I just kind of let it go right now.
06:46I mean, he's really into Frozen.
06:48He's like, mom, this is the jam.
06:51The last show I binge watched,
06:54since Fargo, Gilded Age,
06:57which I feel like has a lot of parallels
06:59to Feud, Capote, and the Swans.
07:01You know, there's a lot of women who lounge around
07:04and gossiping and setting dinners
07:05and yeah, weirdly became obsessed with Gilded Age.
07:09I also love Cynthia Nixon, always.
07:13Who would I bring Dead or Alive to Capote?
07:15Well, Capote.
07:16I think they were all vying.
07:19All the Swans were vying to be the guest of honor actually
07:22and there's a scene in our show where he tells me,
07:25you know, I'm not the guest of honor
07:27and CZ is very like heartbroken.
07:29She thought it was going to be her.
07:30So I, yeah, of course I'd want to be there with Capote.
07:34Thanks for watching Elle.
07:36Tune in for Capote vs. The Swans on FX, streaming on Hulu.