Billie Piper sees Penny as poetic and thoughtful, though her Brona Croft is living on the dog-eat-dog outskirts of society.
An Irish immigrant and “lady of the night” who turns tricks yet also faces a crippling disease, she doesn’t adhere to Victorian etiquette and acting “appropriate, even though the underworld of that era is perverse and mad,” Piper says. “She behaves like a lad, so even though the corset kind of straps you up, it was good to be loose in it.”
Leave a Reply