#143: Billie Piper Special. Mark talks to the writer, actor and director about her controversial new film Rare Beasts
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Mark talks to the writer, actor and director Billie Piper about her controversial new film Rare Beasts.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't think that it's time that somebody cared enough to have a dream? |
| 0:04.0 | Why are you getting so upset? |
| 0:09.0 | This is not about you. |
| 0:10.0 | Yes it is. |
| 0:11.0 | You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman. |
| 0:15.4 | At some point you gotta decide for yourself for you. Can't let nobody make that decision for you. |
| 0:22.1 | How do you go about getting an exorcism? |
| 0:24.0 | I beg your pardon. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, this is... |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermo. Thanks for downloading this Kermoat on film podcast. This week my |
| 0:37.5 | special guest is Billy Piper, star of stage, screen and music and now writer and director of Rare Beasts, which opens in UK Cinemars this Friday. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, I'm delighted to welcome Billy Piper to the podcast. Billy, how are you? |
| 0:55.4 | I'm good. Yeah, I'm I've just finished a film and just yesterday so I'm now excited about having some time to myself and the film's coming out so that's all very exciting |
| 1:09.8 | So yeah, better than I have been, let's say that. |
| 1:14.0 | So you've been managing to, I've spoken to a number of filmmakers who have managed to work during |
| 1:20.6 | this, how does it work that, you know, with everything that's going on that you can get work done? |
| 1:27.2 | It's definitely it's different it's you know it's kind of logistics heavy and lots of protocol and arguably less fun I guess but you can you can still make a film it seems in lockdown so in many ways |
| 1:51.4 | we're incredibly lucky, but it's a completely different experience and it's very, |
| 1:58.0 | it's quite, you know, it's dispiriting in the way that you have to, you are all sort of closed off, caged up and can't, there's no, there's less, you know, room for fun play I would say although we did manage to find some is the |
| 2:16.8 | thing that you've just finished the Linda Dunnan project it is yeah so |
| 2:20.2 | tell us about it as much as you can say about it. |
| 2:23.8 | Well, what I can say is that it's like a medieval coming of age story that was based on a book that I never read as a child called Catherine called Birdie and it sort of documents this young girl. |
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