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Like most of us, it took blinking twice for Sienna Miller to truly understand the legitimacy of gauche billionaire, Donald Trump, becoming president of the free world. “It was really funny initially until I realised it wasn’t a joke,” Miller told Variety. “I’m really horrified. I’ve never been here [in the U.S.] for an election. I’ve never felt as invested in the outcome as I do now.”

Miller, who attended the New York Film Festival across the weekend for the her new movie The Lost City of Z with Robert Pattinson and Charlie Hunnam, said she would relocate should Trump win on November 8. “I don’t know if I can stay if it goes the wrong way, so I’m really hoping Hillary comes through.”

Miller plays Nina Agnes Paterson, the wife of South American explorer Colonel Percival Fawcett. An avid explorer in the late 1800s/early 1900s, Fawcett was convinced a lost city, which he called “Z”, existed somewhere in the Mato Grosso region in Brazil. He set out on what would be his last expedition in 1925 along with his eldest son, Jack and Jack’s friend. Although the travellers were well equipped for the journey, the last anyone ever heard from them was via a letter Fawcett sent Paterson via a native runner. It is believed either the three died of natural causes in the Brazilian jungle or were killed by a native Indian tribe, many of whom had never encountered a white male.   

“She’s a really interesting character,” says Miller. “She was a suffragette and she was a Buddhist and she was raising children on her own. She was competent and strong.”