I like a smoky eye or a red lip – I
just want to be in a costume that
will protect me.” Would she tend to pick a high-necked dress over anything too revealing? “Oh, yes.
I’m not comfortable with booby.”
In fact, says Green, the entire
red-carpet experience is an uncomfortable one. “Years ago, my publicist gave me an article saying
I was the worst-dressed actress in
the world. If you’re too original,
like Helena Bonham Carter with
the one red shoe…I adore her for doing that. But people are, ‘Oh my gahhhd!’” she says, affecting a
shrill American accent. “Even now,
I wouldn’t go [looking] too original.
It’s such a big fuss, to be myself.
But to have to remain safe is
boring. F****** boring. ‘What are
you wearing?’ is all [reporters] care about, rather than about your
movie. It’s not very clever.”
Perhaps now is not the best time
to be asking her fashion questions.
She laughs. “No, but it’s not the
same.” Okay, then: favorite labels? “Haider Ackermann, Saint Laurent, Topshop.” But she wouldn’t wear “those tops that show the belly. Or mini skirts. I’m not brave enough.