PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animas) have praised Billie for admitting about her past and expressing how much she wanted to change it. They now want her as a spokesperson for their campaign…
A spokesperson for the organisation told WENN: “PETA is very happy to hear that Ms Piper regrets the casual cruelty that she perpetrated against animals when she was a child – that’s the difference between a person with the real potential to be kind and someone who denies wrongdoing, takes pleasure in it and escalates the damaging behaviour.
“We will be asking Ms Piper to be a spokesperson for our campaign to sensitise children, parents and teachers to the need to develop compassion in childhood through humane education training in schools and at home.”
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Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Miranda Sawyer and Francis Spufford and musician Pat Kane review the week’s cultural highlights, including Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil Labute.
Click here to listen to the review. There’s also an extract from the performance and one of the reviewers praises “Billie Piper is fantastic!”, “Billie Piper is terrific, a really great performance! Really, really terrific”.
Q&A: BILLIE PIPER
When were you happiest?
My son’s second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.What is your earliest memory?
Eating chips on the way home from playschool, looking forward to an episode of Puddle Lane, age three.Which living person do you most admire, and why?
My mother. She raised four children pretty much on her own. My father was around, but always out at work.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My obsession with time.What is the trait you most deplore in others?
People who point when they talk.What is your most treasured possession?
My old love letters and pen pal correspondence.What would your super power be?
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There’s a Billie interview in tomorrows ‘Guardian’ newspaper. If anyone could get scans it would be highly appreciated.
Keep a look out for it.
Daily Mail’s reported about Billie already filming the pilot for ‘Tom and Jenny’ and is soon to start filming ‘Truth about Lies’ in December?
After Billie gave birth to her first child Winston in 2008, she took a career hiatus to look after the latest addition to the family.She dabbled with a comeback in 2010 with a role in BBC One’s A Passionate Woman, before retreating back to family life again.
But despite expecting her second child in April 2012, Billie is back in the showbiz world with force.
Not only can she be seen on stage, she has also filmed a pilot episode for BBC Three’s Tom & Jenny, and has been reunited with Doctor Who actor David Tennant for television series Love Life, also for the Beeb.An impressive host of British names join the star-studded cast, with Jane Horrocks, Ashley Walters, David Morrissey, former EastEnder Lacey Turner and Skins teenager Kaya Scodelario taking part.
Piper has also signed up for feature film Truth About Lies, alongside British actress Ruth Wilson, which will begin shooting this winter.
Thoughts? Hopefully more Billie news soon, please note, these aren’t official, its just a rumour about the filming.
* * * * “Tom Burke [gives a] delightfully wry, wisecracking performance as Greg…Billie Piper’s mixture of courage and grief in the role is deeply moving and it is wonderful to see the old bruiser LaBute writing with such tender humanity.”
Charles Spencer, The Telegraph, 18 November 2011
* * * * “Fiercely funny and incisively acted production…Kent, a serenely smug and obnoxiously sexist meathead [is] hilariously played by Kieran Bew…Billie Piper’s excellent Carly adroitly crumbles into a mass of tearful anxiety and suspicion”
Paul Taylor, The Independent, 18 November 2011* * * * “Siân Brooke’s Steph is raw and impassioned. Kieran Bew does a superb job of evoking Kent’s particular brand of mundane villainy…And Burke is dry, wry and reflective, making Greg likeable in a beautifully unshowy fashion… this is smart, funny and humane, as well as skilfully acted.”
Henry Hitchings, The Evening Standard, 18 November 2011* * * * “In Michael Attenborough’s brilliantly acted, beautifully designed production it’s a funny, moving piece – not least because of LaBute’s unerring gift for crackling dialogue and his memorable central character.”
Simon Edge, Daily Express, 18 November 2011
* * * * “Reasons To Be Pretty is at once another darkly comic excavation of the battle of the sexes which also charts a stark, highly moralistic male learning curve. It is sharp-shooting, eminently entertaining and often painful to watch.”
Carole Waddis, The Arts Desk, 18 November 2011
Source: http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/reasons/press
There are links to the full reviews at the source. Seems like the play is getting great publicity and reviews!
Neil LaBute is haunted by the American obsession with physical beauty.The Shape of Things showed a shambolic geek getting a ruinous makeover. Fat Pig attacked the idea that we all have to conform to a perfect shape. And now LaBute shows how a chance remark about a lover’s features can destroy a relationship. The result is a rueful, intelligent comedy that suggests we should all stop defining ourselves, and each other, by our outward appearances.
LaBute starts with the noisiest domestic quarrel I’ve heard for some time. Steph walks out on her long-time lover, Greg, after his reported remark that her face, in comparison with that of another woman, is just “regular”. Greg, who works the graveyard shift in a factory, is puzzled by Steph’s rage and irked by the fact that his casual remark was passed on by a work colleague, Carly, who is the wife of his best friend, Kent. But, in the course of a complex series of confrontations, Greg discovers that every one is hooked on appearances. Carly, a pregnant security guard, is worried that she may be losing the affections of Kent, who is besotted by an apparent stunner working in another part of the factory. Isn’t there more to life, LaBute implicitly asks, than simply how one looks?
Sometimes LaBute puts symmetrical patterns and point-scoring above plausibility. Steph’s initial rage gets the play going but seems wildly disproportionate. You also wonder how Greg, who rather ostentatiously reads Poe, Hawthorne and Swift on the night-shift, has managed to stay friends with a philistine bully like Kent. And, although LaBute is clearly putting in a plea for the average-looking, morally decent guy like Greg, you feel he does this only by making all the other characters appear, at various times, contemptible.
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For those who were following an account claiming to be Billie, we’d like to report that it’s a fake! Both Laurence and Gemma Chan have confirmed that @misspiedpiper is indeed a fraud.
Neil LaBute talks about Reasons to be Pretty and changing the script due to Billie’s pregnancy. Click here to listen to it.
So it’s the opening preview night tonight! I’m sure evertyhing will go. Sending all the luck in the world to Billie for tonight and I look forward to see it on the 19th November! :D
has insisted that there is nothing provocative about her role in Love Life.
The Wuthering Heights star will play Karen, the love interest of teacher Holly (Billie Piper) in the semi-improvised BBC serial.
“[Each episode is] half an hour long, for five nights on the BBC,” the actress told Digital Spy. “It’s [about] different situations of love [and] that’s why I wanted to do it.”
She continued: “It’s very hard to get two female actors, put them together in a… relationship and not make it about sex.
“[This story] was more about the connection that they share as women [and] the points that they’re at in their lives.”
Scodelario also admitted that she had been a fan of Billie Piper’s music as a child.
“The first album that I ever bought was hers,” she revealed. “But I didn’t tell her that, because I thought it might put her off a little bit!”
Video of Kaya at the source.
Pop star-turned-actress Billie Piper has only patched up her distant relationship with her parents since becoming a mother, because they were “redundant” when she shot to fame as a teenager.
The Brit became a chart sensation in the U.K. when she was just 15 and landed her first solo number one single in 1998. She moved into her own apartment and travelled the world as she released two hit albums.
Piper then abandoned her pop career and enjoyed a short-lived, booze-fuelled marriage to U.K. TV star Chris Evans, which her parents found out about on a radio show.
And she reveals she only recently became close to her mum and dad again after putting her wild days behind her and welcoming a son in 2009 – admitting she felt she didn’t need them when she was riding her first wave of success.
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TV beauty Billie Piper has revealed she thinks she has a “frightening” face.
Billie – expecting her second child – said: “I have always felt clumsy and awkward and self-conscious.
“I’ve got these enormous features, and as a childthey were the last thing I wanted. I have always thought of myself as frightening-looking.”
Billie, 29, who has three-year-old son Winston with actor hubby Laurence Fox, 33, is now preparing to face her demons – in a play about appearance.
Reasons To Be Pretty opens in London’s West End on Thursday.
The former Doctor Who assistant said: “I’m trying to get to a place where I can believe that I am really attractive. It’s a big leap of the imagination.”
There’s a double page article in The Sunday Times today featuring Billie, anyone who has some scans, let us know!
It’s only 9 days until the opening preview night of Reasons to be Pretty! If you haven’t got your tickets yet, make sure you get them soon!
Our lovely little site is the Fansite of the Day over at The Fan Carpet! Thanks so much for the great honor! :)
A massive congratulations to Billie Piper who as revealed she is 15 weeks pregnant with her second baby! Apparently she offered to withdraw from ‘Reasons to be Pretty’ but the director wanted her to continue. They have re-written her role as she was the first and only choice for the part, saying they were very impressed with her acting and wouldn’t want any one else to play the part! Great news then!
You can read more here and here.
The third week of the rehearsal diary is now on the Almeida’s blog. Click below to read the corresponding week’s diary.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3Almeida Theatre has released a trailer for Reasons to be Pretty. Click in the ‘Projects’ sidebar to view it.
Thoughts on Billie’s accent, not long till it starts! Adding screencaps to the gallery soon!
The, it seems, official DVD cover can be seen here in the top right hand corner, along with other information and the trailer for the DVD. Of you can go to the High Point Media youtube channel to see the trailer, click here to view it. At least we’re defiantly getting the DVD now!
