Director Sadie Frost wanted to celebrate Twiggy in her new documentary about the iconic model, actress, and singer who was dubbed “the face of 1966”.
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00:00Well, Twiggy's such an exciting, wonderful human being. She's done so many things that
00:19people maybe do or don't know about, but I just wanted to document that and celebrate
00:23her life. So from the moment she kind of became a model and it all just, in 1966, it all just
00:29changed. She became the face of 1966. Right up until now, she's still relevant today,
00:34doing Charlotte Tilbury campaigns, on the cover of Vogue, still modelling, still being
00:39active recording albums. I just wanted to tell that story and celebrate women and celebrate
00:44her. I mean, I think in a way she's quite a private person and she was quite nervous
01:04about telling her story and people had asked her before, but there was a certain amount
01:09of trust between the two of us. We got to know each other. I mean, we knew each other
01:13from afar, but we weren't friends. So I'd kind of teased her when I was on her podcast
01:19when I was doing press for the Mary Quant documentary and I teased her just kind of
01:24on the spur of the moment and then we realised actually it could become a reality and then
01:29she rang me up and said, let's go for lunch, let's discuss it. And then the BBC got involved
01:34and then Film Soho and I had a really amazing team, producers, editors, felt so supported
01:41and the intuitive responded and I pushed her sometimes because she didn't want to reveal
01:46certain things, but you can't, you know, you have to kind of find your journey and your
01:51arc in a documentary and I think we did.
02:03You can do anything you want to do. You should never sacrifice your family. I think work
02:08is important, but your family is ultimately important as well and it doesn't matter, you
02:13know, she came from the wrong side of the track. She was one of the first working class
02:17models of that time and she did open doors for other working class young models and she
02:23just, she is always on that mood board or reminds people that you can do anything if
02:27you put your mind, there's always, there can always be a change.