Billie Piper
Actress
Good grief, she’s only just turned 32, but Piper has already packed in a lot, parlaying her teenage pop stardom into an acting career that hit twin early heights with Secret Diary of a Call Girl and Doctor Who. This year she was seen in Penny Dreadful, and onstage in the National Theatre’s hacking drama Great Britain. She also has two children with husband Laurence Fox.
When I talk to Billie Piper on the phone, filming on Penny Dreadful has just resumed and she hasn’t been fully briefed on what she can and can’t say about the new second series of Sky Atlantic’s Gothic horror mash-up, so we tentatively manoeuvre our way around each of my questions until we arrive at something that both parties agree is acceptable.
Her character Brona, an Irish immigrant to Victorian London, shouldn’t be coming back at all – she died at the end of season one. But it wasn’t tuberculosis, as expected, that claimed her, she was smothered by one Dr Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), with the reluctant intention of turning her into a bride for his original dark creation.
Given that Billie has been asked to turn up for season two, a return from the dead seems the only route her character can take (unless she is being asked to play the particularly untaxing role of a corpse). Nevertheless, we’re both very aware of what she calls the “spoiler minefield”.
“I haven’t seen the last [episode of series one] but very few people have come to me and said ‘you’re dead and it’s over’, everyone seems to be looking at some kind of resurrection, so if I say that, I think that’s not totally putting my foot in it,” she ventures.
Billie Piper has been announced to appear at Belfast Film and Comic Con, Saturday 25th Ocotober at the Odessery Arena. Autographs/Photoshoots are priced at £25. You can buy your tickets here!
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“Penny Dreadful” was Showtime’s breakout hit this past year, and has been renewed for a longer second season with an expected release date in January 2015.
“Penny Dreadful” is essentially a Victorian Era mashup, stories involve popular characters such as Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Dorian Gray, and Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Its funny that this concept ended the career of one James Bond (Sean Connery in “League of Extrodinary Gentleman” and is reinvigorating the career of another James Bond, Timothy Dalton.
Shooting on the new season started last week, and various crew members have been tweeting photos and updates. The cast includes Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, Danny Sapani, Harry Treadaway, Josh Hartnett, Simon Russell Beale, and Helen McCrory.
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