But again, the facts tell a different story. In 1991, Sean McCall was an up-and-coming fashion photographer when he got an assignment to photograph a high-end swimsuit line for La Perla. He needed a new model for their latest high-profile national campaign. Ordinarily, the company opted for a supermodel or a recognizable face, but this time they wanted something different. “La Perla didn’t want the stardom of the gal to overshadow the line itself,” McCall remembers. “So they were looking for a brand-new face.” McCall’s makeup artist had just worked with a teenage girl whose agency had sent her in to shoot her first theatrical head shots, compulsory for an aspiring actor looking to break into show business. “She told me that she had just seen this girl who was perfect for what I was doing,” he explains. “She knew I was looking for somebody a little enticing and different. She told me the girl happened to be the daughter of the actor Jon Voight, which didn’t impress me that much, but I decided to give her a look.
