Sadie Frost: I don’t want to be pigeonholed

Sadie Frost has explained why she doesn’t want to be pigeonholed.

Sadie Frost refuses to be “pigeonholed”.

The 61-year-old star has enjoyed success as an actress, a producer and as a fashion designer – but she’s recently directed Twiggy, a documentary about the legendary fashion model, and she’s loved that challenge, too.

Sadie told People: “To be able to change careers at my age? I never thought this twist would happen.”

Sadie admitted to drawing inspiration from Twiggy’s successes.

She said: “What is so inspiring about Twiggy to me is that she evolves with time, and I think I’ve done similar things in my life where I don’t want to be or do just one thing.

“And I don’t want to be told I can’t do something because of my age. I don’t want to be pigeonholed. You can do anything whenever you want really, if you really put your mind to it.”

Sadie relished the experience of directing the Twiggy documentary.

She explained: “Life is about taking risks, and Twiggy is a huge testament to that. To tell her story has been such an honour.”

Earlier this month, Twiggy explained how her life was changed by a trip to a hair salon.

The 77-year-old model was initially discovered in improbable circumstances, after a fashion editor saw a photo of her in a London hair salon.

Twiggy told People: “It was mad, really.

“I couldn’t have planned any of it. If I’d gone to a modelling agency and said ‘I’d like to model,’ they’d have turned me away. I was too short. I was too small. I just didn’t have the measurements.”

In 1966, Twiggy headed to a salon in preparation for a night out.

The iconic star said: “It was serendipity, because I went to that salon to have my hair styled, and Leonard [Lewis, the celebrity hairdresser], saw me and said, ‘Can I cut your hair?’

“The funny thing was, I didn’t want my hair cut, because I was a mod, and I liked it long and parted in the middle.

“[But] because I was so timid and in this posh Mayfair salon, I was too shy to say no to him!”

Twiggy ultimately walked out of the salon with her iconic pixie cut, and she now admits that the distinctive look changed her life.

She said: “The photographer, Barry Luttigam, that was the first shot he did of me, which is amazing really, because it became the most famous shot. He just pulled me in front of the camera and said, ‘Look in the lens’, which is what I did.”