Five Minutes With Lily Cole

Lily Cole

Five Minutes With Lily Cole

In a series for the BBC News website, Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in precisely five minutes.

In this video, Matt talks to Lily Cole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmWOGTZ8TU

Five Minutes With: Lily Cole

Lily Cole / What is perfection?

Lily Cole Perfection

Actress and model Lily Cole reveals her unique thinking about perfection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMcLqHwrKI

Red Shoes' starring Lily Cole / A short film by Lorna Tucker

Red Shoes' starring Lily Cole 

A short film by Lorna Tucker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub76MGDYJNU

Red Shoes' starring Lily Cole - a short film by Lorna Tucker

Lily Cole

Interview

Lily Cole: why I made a film about 'violent, awful' Heathcliff

Her appointment to the Brontë Society caused a storm. How will her new film – inspired by Wuthering Heights – be received? We meet the former supermodel at her Impossible HQ

Simon Hattenstone
Wed 25 Jul 2018

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ast December, when Lily Cole was appointed creative partner of the Brontë Society for 2018, it caused a brouhaha. Brontë expert Nick Holland resigned from the society, describing the decision as “a disgrace” and “rank farce”. Yes, Cole might have a double first in history of art from Cambridge University, but what concerned him was that she had chosen to make her living as a model. “The central question,” Holland huffed, “should be, ‘What would Emily Brontë think if she found that the role of chief ‘artist’ and organiser in her celebratory year was a supermodel?’ We all know the answer to that, and anyone who doesn’t isn’t fit to make the decision or have any role in the governance of the Brontë Society.”

Lily Cole: ‘I’m impressed by what technology can do, but [my site] Impossible is driven by analogue instincts, like valuing time and meeting people in the real world.’

Lily Cole interview: 'Our concept of beauty is so restrictive'

In her career, Lily Cole has been feted as a model and actress. Now, playing the legendarily beautiful Helen of Troy, she is confronting what first brought her to attention… her looks

Carole Cadwalladr
Sun 8 Jun 2014

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here's an unpredictability to Lily Cole. She made her name as a model while still a schoolgirl and has trodden the familiar route of model turned actress, but in the meantime she went to Cambridge University, where she graduated with a first in history of art, and soon after leaving took the altogether less familiar path of becoming a model turned technology entrepreneur. Last year, she launched a wish-fulfilment website called impossible.com, a site where people post their wishes and that "encourages people to do things for others for free".