As Kate Bosworth backflips onto the screen in new ad campaign she reveals how split from Orlando Bloom sent her into a spin

She's one of Hollywood's big hitters, having earned her stripes in big screen hits including The Horse Whisperer, Blue Crush and Superman returns.

For her latest project though, Kate takes a break from feature length movies, starring in a short film as the new face of French fashion brand Vanessa Bruno. 

The 28-year-old actress demonstrates the riding skills that helped land her first film role in The Horse Whisperer

The actress was a natural choice, says the designer, who started her eponymous brand 15 years ago when she was just 24 years old.

'She has the style of a Parisienne without being from Paris,' Bruno told Style magazine.

'She's a true free spirit, does her own thing, makes her own decisions - exactly the aesthetic of the label.' 

'When we first met, we clicked so much, it was as though we already knew each other,' she says.

For the autumn/winter 2011 campaign, Bosworth replaces French model Lou Doillon (daughter of Jane Birkin) to act out a surreal love story, LØV, directed by Stephanie Di Gusto. 

 

The film sees the 28-year-old actress running backwards and back-flipping across a stark white background, modelling fur-lined knits and galloping across the Norwegian landscape on a horse (demonstrating the riding skills that landed her the role in her first ever film, The Horse Whisperer).

Bosworth, whose new film Straw Dogs - a remake of the '70s thriller of the same title - is out in November, will also be seen in the print ads running alongside the campaign. 

With no fewer than four films currently on the go, one of which sees her playing Billie, the girlfriend of Jack Kerouac in a film she describes as 'a chronicle of a nervous breakdown,' it's a busy time for Bosworth. But her hectic work schedule doesn't come close to causing the turmoil she felt when she split from ex-boyfriend Orlando Bloom, whom she dated for on and off for four years.

Although she is now blissfully happy with film director boyfriend Michael Polish, 41, the actress admits her happiness was hard fought.

'I definitely know the meaning of pain,' she told Style. 

'You know when you put all your chips into something and then it disappears? It sent me into such pain.

I think I had actual vertigo. I was like, 'Is this my new reality?' Will anything be normal again? 'Then one day you wake up and you think, okay, I'll never be the same, but I'll survive and I'll grow from it.'