( EW.com ) -- Why did Sienna Miller fall off Hollywood 's radar shortly after the 2009 release of G.I . Joe : The Rise of Cobra ? The answer 's simple , according to Miller herself : `` I sabotaged things , '' she says . `` I burnt a lot of bridges . '' There 's more blunt honesty where that came from in Miller 's big Esquire UK interview , the magazine 's latest cover story . ( And yes , the article also includes a very tasteful , black-and-white topless photoshoot . ) In between a fair amount of purple prose ( `` [ we ] talked to each other , and at each other , and occasionally over each other about feminism and social media and the press and public morality and twerking , obviously ... Some of this into my voice recorder , some of it into the wind '' ) , Miller gives a lot of insight into her rocky career , which started to slump when her private life became more interesting than her professional life — and Miller freely admits that she 's got nobody to blame for that but herself . ( Although according to interviewer Alex Bilmes , Miller does concede `` that she certainly would n't have been treated in this way were she a man . '' Maybe there 's a Katherine Heigl comparison to be made here ? ) The trouble began when 2004′s Alfie remake was released — and 22-year-old Miller suddenly skyrocketed to fame , due to her roles as both the film 's costar and Jude Law 's girlfriend . `` I was really naive , '' she recalls to Bilmes . `` Not green as grass — I was by no means an innocent — but I had faith in the goodness of everyone . I was very open . And that led me into all sorts of situations that backfired . '' Namely , Miller never really learned how to play the PR game : `` I was English . I was , 'Let 's be who we are ! I 'm not going to have my hair done every morning and yes : I smell of fags ! ' And so I would walk into studio heads ' offices and we 'd crack up laughing . '' And while she claims that she was always `` totally professional '' on movie sets , offset , the actress `` had no business sense whatsoever '' : `` I never read a review or paid any mind to what anyone said , '' Miller admits . She also ruffled feathers with her off-the-cuff remarks , as when she memorably called Pennsylvania 's second-largest city `` Sh -- sburgh . '' And of course , she got caught in one tabloid scandal after another , first due to her tumultuous relationship with Law and later when she had an affair with the married actor Balthazar Getty . As a result , Miller says roles dried up — because `` people do n't want to see films with people they do n't approve of in them . '' ( You know , unless they 're men . ) So Miller `` deliberately disappeared '' from the spotlight , and from the nasty reputation she 'd developed . `` I was sick of myself , to be honest , or sick of that perception of me , '' she says . `` It all felt so f—ing dirty . '' Since Miller 's now doing a huge confessional interview in a big glossy magazine , it 's safe to say that things are looking up for her . After the disaster that was G.I . Joe , she found refuge on the stage and with a well-received turn as Tippi Hedren in the 2012 TV movie The Girl . Two years later , Miller is staging something of a film comeback with roles in three movies , including the Vince Vaughn comedy Business Trip ( which ... maybe she should n't get too excited about ) and the true crime drama Foxcatcher ( which was originally set to open Dec. 20 but has been pushed to an unspecified date this year ) . Her personal life , too , is finally stable : Miller and fiance Tom Sturridge welcomed their first daughter in July 2012 . And maybe most importantly , the tumult of the past 10 years has helped Miller understand what really matters — or , more specifically , what does n't . ( Hint : Everything . ) Take it away , Sienna : . `` When you 're in some massive crisis and you look at yourself in a close-up and then if you visualize pulling back and seeing England and then pulling back and seeing the world , you realize how f—ing insignificant you are . I think that 's really the greatest thing I 've learned recently : that I do n't matter . Nothing matters . It 's such a relief to know that . I did n't get that job -- it does n't f—ing matter . Whatever I achieve , or do n't , will be forgotten , it 's not important . '' Read the full interview at Esquire UK . See the original article at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Miller says she `` burnt a lot of bridges '' in Hollywood . The actress also says she was extremely naive . She will next be seen in `` Foxcatcher ''