Has Sienna’s onscreen love triangle 流出／こぼすd over into real life?

By Laura Collins, Mail on Sunday Feature Writer and Kitty Dimbleby
Updated: 17:50 BST, 13 June 2008

It is a tale of seething jealousies and violent passions ? but it is one 速く in danger of 存在 matched by the real-life 演劇s of its 主要な actors.

When The 辛勝する／優位 Of Love opens later this month, it will do so まっただ中に fevered 憶測 that the on-始める，決める closeness of two of its 星／主役にするs, Matthew Rhys and Sienna Miller, was the
catalyst for the end of Sienna’s year-long romance with actor Rhys Ifans.

On the town: Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys at a showbiz 機能（する）／行事 last year

Certainly the chemistry between the two as they take on the 役割s of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas at one of the most volatile periods of their marriage is undisguisable.

But while that on-審査する frisson may bode 井戸／弁護士席 for the film’s success, it seems to have done for Sienna’s 関係 with Ifans.

Last week, it was 報告（する）／憶測d that the couple had 分裂（する） when Sienna, tired of Ifans’s jealousy and 疑惑, called a 停止（させる） to the 関係 that once looked 運命にあるd to end in marriage.

On 場所: Rhys and Miller in their 役割s as Dylan Thomas and wife Caitlin

Ifans, 40 this year, is understood to have been unhappy at the 量 of time that Sienna, 26, was spending with Matthew, 33, during ますます たびたび（訪れる） visits to Los Angeles to 準備する for the film’s 宣伝の （選挙などの）運動をする.

The pair have been seen dining out together in LA several times and, while they 否定する any romance, Ifans’s unease was 高くする，増すd by the fact that Sienna had 時代遅れの Matthew up to the time when Ifans and she became a couple last summer.

Ifans ? best known for his 役割 as Hugh 認める’s flatmate Spike in Notting Hill ? is a successful actor and popular man, famous for his wild-living, natural charm and haphazard approach to personal grooming.

Happier times: Rhys and Sienna strolling 手渡す in 手渡す in West London last month

But he was branded a ‘反逆者’ by Matthew and Fantastic Four 星／主役にする Ioan Gruffudd ? fellow members of the Hollywood ‘Taffia’ ? when he and Sienna got together. Until then, the three men had been 会社／堅い friends.

Such 衝突s of love and friendship also 嘘（をつく） at the heart of The 辛勝する／優位 Of Love. The film 焦点（を合わせる）s on an 悪名高い event in 1945 when the Welsh poet was said to have been 発射 at by the husband of Dylan’s first love ? Vera Killick.

Keira Knightley plays the glamorous former ダンサー turned singer Vera. Keira, 23, was 初めは c ast in the 役割 of Caitlin but 選ぶd for the more sexy character of Vera.

In its depiction of overlapping 事件／事情／状勢s and hedonistic creativity, the story of Dylan, Caitlin and Vera could 競争相手 anything that London’s louche Primrose Hill 始める，決める, on whose 辛勝する／優位s Sienna 存在するd thanks to her 関係 with Ifans, has to 申し込む／申し出.

The 陰謀（を企てる） chronicles the time, すぐに after the birth of Dylan and Caitlin’s daughter, Aeronwy, when their marriage is in 危機 in the 直面する of his alcoholism and their 相互の faithlessness.

Then Dylan has a chance 会合 in London with childhood friend and former lover Vera Phillips and the die is cast.

Vera marries her fiance William Killick, played by Cillian Murphy, 32, but soon 乗る，着手するs on a torrid 事件／事情／状勢 with Dylan.

It is 複雑にするd by the ありそうもない friendship that springs up between Vera and Caitlin ? two women who should, after all, be total 競争相手s.

As the film’s 女性（の） leads, Sienna and Keira embrace the feisty, 解放する／自由な-spirited characters of the women they portray.

The images of the girls ? kicking about in their wellington boots, Forties cardigans, wrinkled stockings and woollen skirts ? may appear carefree and innocent, but an undercurrent of lesbian lust underpins this depiction and 追加するs another 味方する to the love triangle.

When the betrayal is 暴露するd, Vera’s husband, a 特殊部隊員, 開始する，打ち上げるs his furious attack on Dylan. In reality, Killick was （疑いを）晴らすd by a 陪審／陪審員団 of 殺人未遂, にもかかわらず Dylan’s 証拠 about a gun attack.