Billie featured on Steve Lamacq’s Show on Radio 6 and featured on the roundtable throughout the show, commenting on songs as well as her new play ‘Yerma’! Click on the photo below to listen! (only available in the UK)
With her infectiously peppy Because We Want To, Billie Piperlaunched phase one of her career back in 1998, becoming the youngest ever artist to debut at No 1 in the UK. But after two hit albums, she segued into an acting career that has eclipsed even her music success.
Adored by Doctor Who fans for playing Rose Tyler, companion to David Tennant’s Doctor, she’s also known for taking on the role of sex worker Belle de Jour in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, and as Brona Croft in Penny Dreadful. She has enjoyed regular stints on the London stage – rejoining Call Girl writer Lucy Prebble for The Effect, and starring in Richard Bean’s phone-hacking drama Great Britain. Next up is the lead role in Yerma, a Lorca tragedy updated by the iconoclastic Simon Stone.
With Yerma opening at the Young Vic on 28 July, Piper is joining us to answer your questions about it and anything else in her career, from 1pm BST on Wednesday 13 July – post them in the comments below.
Billie attended the press night for ‘Unreachable’ in London last night, supporting Matt Smith & Lucy Prebble. 19 HQ photos below:
8th July | ‘Unreachable’ Press Night After Party
The story around Lily [Billie Piper] has been one of my favorites this year.
LOGAN: Yeah, me too.
That monologue about her daughter in episode 8 was just stunning. Can you take me through why it was so important that you saved that really human story for the end of the season?
LOGAN: Happily. I chose to write about women in Victorian society — that’s the stealth thing this show is actually about. It’s a very feminist show, and the idea that the audience gets to see, in our three years, Lily as a degraded figure who’s abused by men, as Brona, literally being reborn into a blank slate and then achieving incredible power but always having a great human connection. That was a case where I was also inspired by the actor, because Billie Piper so delights me, and I found that in the second season I was able to write her an eight-minute monologue that she absolutely delivered, completely, in a way that I found thrilling. I just wanted to do it again, because she’s an actor who understands theatricality and understands larger than life language in a very unique way, and that’s part of what this show is about.
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I’ve added 400+ screencaptures from last nights episode. How amazing was Billie? I wonder what’s in store for Lily now!
I’ve added new HQ stills from last nights episode of Penny Dreadful – ‘Ebb Tide’! Warning they contain spoilers!
Billie attended Phoenix Comic Con over the weekend. Photos from autographs & her Q&A have been added!
