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From T Magazine/ The New York Times Blog : Agyness Deyn is the latest model trying to make the transition to acting, but she’s doing it via the art gallery rather than Hollywood. In “Mean to Me,” a visually sumptuous 12-minute film noir written and directed by David McDermott and Peter McGough, Deyn trades her gamine look for raven-hued finger waves and crimson lips — all the better to deliver a blow to the head of her lover (the “Law & Order” star Linus Roache), wrestle him into the bathtub, tie him up and extort a sizable check. Set in the Great Depression and named for a popular song of the era, the artist duo’s first scripted film chronicles the disastrous end of an affair. McDermott and McGough began collaborating 30 years ago, and capturing the essence of a time past has always been part of their work, so recreating the 1930s proved no challenge. Period-perfect down to its wallpaper, telephone and radio, McGough’s Art Deco Manhattan apartment provided the set. Deyn’s costumes...

Written by Johanna Cox and photographed by Jamie Siegel : for Elle.com : For her 27th birthday, British model cum actress Agyness Deyn is getting a pretty cool gift: the premiere of her first film, Mean to Me. Directed by multi-media artist Peter McGough, and co-starring Law & Order’s Linus Roache, Mean to Me is a Manhattan-set 1930s noir art short about a courtesan (Deyn) and her newly fortuneless lover (Roache) as they come face to face with the stark, unanticipated reality of the Great Depression. “He’s forced to break up with her,” McGough (who co-wrote the script with longtime collaborator David McDermott) says of Roache’s character. “And he’s very straightforward, very practical when he tells his lover he’s marrying someone else to keep his finances going. From there, it gets darker.” Though just over 20 minutes in length, Mean To Me—whose name comes from the 1929 Ruth Etting song —is dialogue-rich, close-up heavy, and an ambitious first film for Deyn. “I love working with v...

Mean to Me , a short film Agyness Deyn did with the artists Peter McGough & David McDermott and actor Linus Roach, premiers at The Bowery Hotel this Friday February 19th. Agyness says: " It's a bit scary — adrenaline-rush scary. I play a young girl in the thirties who goes a bit schizo "