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Billie Piper interview - Radio Times, September 2007 |
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What's a nice girl like Billie Piper doing playing hooker Belle de Jour? Zoe Williams finds out.
Billie Piper…on The Secret Diary of a Call Girl
"I'm so keen to stress that this
is one person's story; this is very,
very different from sex trafficking,
the horrible, destructive, nasty,
evil things that occur in the world
of prostitution. Everybody told me not to do it.
I love my friends and my family
and I really care about what they think, and they were
concerned. They'd
say, 'What's this
going to do to your
soul?'
"But when
people read about
prostitution, they
read, 'Girl, 15, heroin
addict, murdered in
a one-room flat'. That's
what happens a lot,
so it's scary, and even
though [acting] isn't actually having
sex for money, you're still spending all
day in your underwear, pretending to
be f***ed.
"So I think people go, 'Are
you going to be all right with this?'
It's genuine concern, and it's also -
not ignorance, that sounds rude -
but, yeah, ignorance."
…on the real Belle
"[She's]
incredibly glamorous, she's got an
amazing figure and a great rack
[bust]. But I think she's
got a really active imagination and
she's funny and smart. That's what
makes her so hot, you know."
"She is really body-confident - she says
[prostitution] is her choice, and she
enjoys it. She has amazing posture.
I'm not like that at all, but after
a while, to be honest, when you're in
those shoes and in that underwear,
there is only one way to stand."
…on her relationship with actor Laurence Fox
"The hardest
thing about us both being actors is
that it's not just an eight-hour day.
It's your life for however long you're
shooting. I don't know that you
can both do it all the time, or you'd
never see each other, and that's really
sad. I need to take time off for
myself anyway right now."
…on fame
"I think you need
balls of steel for America, I don't
know if I could hack it. Plus, having
a pop career taught me a lot. It teaches you that you don't want
to be famous, you know. You just
want to do good work."
"All that fame can
really f*** up your life and make you
care about the wrong things. It's
a choice, you know. Do I want to go
to America, be lucky enough to be
offered work out there, and then
be a film star, and be recognised
everywhere I go? Or do I want to go
to New York three times a year, and
be able to go mad because nobody
knows me? I quite like being quite
peaceful. I also quite like being mad."
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Now take a look at our full guide to The Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
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