![]() Luckily we had about a week of rehearsals before we started shooting so we had some time to get to know each other, and yeah, she's great." It's always interesting when you go onto a show that's already established and the team's worked together before and everyone knows each other and you're kind of the new kid, but she was really welcoming. I was going to ask you what it was like working with Billie. We tried to be professional the whole time but that was the one day we got a bit hysterical, because the scenes were just so funny." During one of the scenes it was half an hour and we couldn't stop making each other laugh. The lines are so brilliantly written, but we could just not stop laughing. We have a scene where we have a kind of stand-off. Charlotte is slightly aggressive and it was just great fun to spar with Billie. It was just a couple of scenes where we'd be in a small confined space and under the lights, and yeah, it wasn't very comfortable." Most of the time we'd be filming on location outside and it would be fine, I wouldn't get too warm. So once you're hot you just get hotter and hotter inside the latex, so that's not great. And there's also nowhere for your sweat to go. The only thing is, if you start to get hot your skin can't breathe. "It's surprisingly comfortable! Much more comfortable than if you were doing a period drama and they put you in a corset. They're very beautiful, classy costumes, just made of latex." They're not all underwear - there are beautifully-made costumes. Most if not all of my costumes are latex. And there were great costumes - hair and make-up and the costume department went to town with my character as well. You can behave towards people in a way that you would never do in real life. But definitely there were sides to her that were really fun to bring out. ![]() You do get to see a different side to her later. There are elements of her character which are really fun to play. I had to do my research before we started and it opened my eyes to a whole new world! I'd say she's not really like me. "I'm not a call girl, I'm not a dominatrix! I found it quite funny I'd been cast as this character. And she's very different from the characters I've played before, which I was very pleased about - the character I played before in Sherlock was a very demure, very sweet character, so it was nice to do something utterly different." She's not just a bitch, she's quite quirky as well, so that attracted me to her. She kind of doesn't distinguish between her professional life and her private life - she treats everyone with the same disdain. So she's a very strong character, no-nonsense. She's a call girl as well, a high-class call girl, but she specialises in being a dominatrix. "Her name is Charlotte and she is the arch-nemesis of Billie's character Belle. It's the writing, really, and they've got some great directors on this series as well - these new young guys - and they had lots of great ideas so it was just a great team and it was a brilliant job to do."Ĭan you tell us a bit about your character? They've really upped the comedy in this series. I think it's brilliantly done, very funny, well-written, and Billie I've always thought has been great in it. I found out later that they had all their hopes riding on that meeting and luckily it must have gone okay because then they offered me the part!"įrom your perspective, why did you want a part in the show? Right at the end of the casting process she apparently came bursting into the room saying, 'I figured out who that actress is and she's coming in to see us tomorrow'. ![]() And everyone agreed, and then they kind of forgot. One of the producers had thought of me right at the beginning of their casting process and she couldn't remember my name, but she said, 'There's an actress I think would be great for a part, we should see her'. Actually I was cast only a week before we began filming, so it was very last minute. I wasn't aware that they'd been looking for quite a few months for someone to play the part of the arch-nemesis of Belle. "I got a call out of the blue about the part in Secret Diary. How did your role on Secret Diary come about? Now she's starring in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl as Belle's new rival Charlotte, so we gave her a ring to find out more about appearing on the show, working with Billie Piper and wearing rather a lot of latex. You might well recognise Gemma Chan - after being a model on Project Catwalk, she's guest starred in shows like Doctor Who, Sherlock and The IT Crowd.
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