And as she poses at a hideaway house in Topanga Canyon, California, she displays a rare lightness of being. She’s constantly mobile, agile, flirtatious, dancing. So many models claim that they’re doing this under duress — they’d sooner be playing bass in their band, or working on their script. But Hemingway has an actual relish for it. ‘I love modelling,’ she says when she settles in a pool of sunlight, sucking on an American Spirit cigarette, drawing her legs under her baggy green knit. ‘I got into this job because I was a ballet dancer for years and I studied acting beforehand. I wanted something that could explore movement and character. It’s often harder to create a photo that has real feeling behind it than it is to do that in a movie. So it upsets me when girls just say they’re modelling for the money. That’s not what I like about it. I like giving emotion.’