Kate Moss attended the world premiere of Moss & Freud, James Lucas's account of the months she sat for Lucian Freud in 2002, with Ellie Bamber and Derek Jacobi.
Kate Moss, the film’s subject, attended the world premiere of James Lucas’s Moss & Freud at Curzon Mayfair on Friday 10 October 2025. Ellie Bamber, who plays her, joined her on the carpet.
Moss was born in Croydon in 1974. At fourteen she was spotted at JFK Airport by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Management. Corinne Day’s black-and-white photographs of her at sixteen introduced her as an unknown.
Her work with Calvin Klein made her a fashion icon. In 2013 the British Fashion Awards marked her quarter-century in modelling.
The film follows the nine months in 2002 when Moss, pregnant with her daughter Lila, sat for Lucian Freud, and the friendship between them. Lucas, who directed the Oscar-winning short The Phone Call, wrote and directed it in London, and Moss is an executive producer. The finished portrait sold at auction in 2005.
The premiere was part of the 69th BFI London Film Festival, and Vertigo Releasing opened the film in British cinemas on 29 May 2026.
Bamber plays Moss, wearing many of Moss’s own clothes from the period. Derek Jacobi plays Freud, with Jasmine Blackborow as Bella Freud.