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Sienna Miller keeps careful from damaging Jonny Lee Miller’s privates for ‘After Miss Julie’

Jonny Lee Miller and Sienna Miller co-star in the Roundabout Theatre Company's 'After Miss Julie.'
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Jonny Lee Miller and Sienna Miller co-star in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s ‘After Miss Julie.’
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Sienna Miller‘s storied love life has obviously left her with a little learning about the care and handling of men’s privates.

In her Broadway play, “After Miss Julie,” there’s a scene where Sienna’s character flies into a rage and grabs the scrotum of her co-star, Jonny Lee Miller. She’s quite convincing.

How does she manage to put Jonny’s family jewelry in such a vise without hurting him?

“I shouldn’t give away the secret,” the actress told us at the play’s opening last week. “But I’m obviously not doing what it looks like. I grab a bit of his thigh.”

Jonny, who no doubt learned to tolerate firm-handed women during his marriage to Angelina Jolie, vouched that the scene doesn’t make him nervous. “I don’t wear a cup or anything,” he laughed. “She’s a skilled actress.”

Should Sienna’s claw miss its target by an inch one night, muscular Jonny allowed, he might have an involuntary reaction. “She’d fly off the stage in a second,” he predicted.

We asked Sienna whether two of the Broadway stars who’ve helped her train for the scene, her ex-lovers Jude Law and Daniel Craig, had come to see her.

“Not yet,” said Sienna, who’s twice seen Law in “Hamlet.” “But it’s very difficult when you’re all onstage at the same time.”

Does she see New York as a refuge from Britain‘s class system, as the characters in her play do?

“I think the class system is as prevalent here as it is in England,” she said. “But I think America is massively optimistic. I love coming here.”