S21E11: Actress Billie Piper
Trashy Divorces
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When the Doctor Who television series rebooted on BBC in 2005, the producers were looking for a very specific type of person to play The Doctor's human traveling companion. They wanted a young actress to connect to a new generation of viewers, but also relatably perform the role of an ordinary girl whose adventures with The Doctor connect her to what makes her extraordinary. The selection of actress Billie Piper for the part of Rose Tyler was especially inspired; after all, Billie had been a pop star by age 15, only to walk away from a life she didn't want - and toward the one she did.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:06.5 | My name's Alicia. Stacey, my cohort here. I think you're taking us into an unplanned series about English actresses we love. |
| 0:14.6 | Oh, yes, I am. You had the very cool story of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman herself, Jane Seymour, over the weekend. And today we're |
| 0:23.2 | going to hop into Doctor Who's Tartist to talk about Billy Piper, who memorably played Rose |
| 0:28.6 | Tyler when the series rebooted in 2005 and well beyond. But what American audiences may not know |
| 0:35.0 | is that before she broke out in acting, she had this whole career as a teenage pop star across the pond. |
| 0:41.2 | Ah, I love the many spotlights that happen in our season, our spider webs. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, before we get started, is that a magic mirror, I see? |
| 0:49.2 | Oh, yes, it is. |
| 0:50.2 | Thank you so much for joining us at patreon.com slash trashy divorces for early ad-free episodes, dumpster dives, Zoom salons, and more. |
| 1:00.2 | Big thanks to our most recent supporters, DCB, Heather M, Evett M, and Susan C. Holy Cats, y'all are amazing. |
| 1:09.2 | Big thanks to you. Big thanks to our sustaining supporters. And big |
| 1:12.9 | thanks to y'all for coming back to listen. Stacey, you know, I love a whoosh, whoosh, |
| 1:17.8 | the TARDIS. If we're going traveling in time and space, I guess we better go, go oh stacy's a companion rose tyler today absolutely she's a good companion |
| 1:42.8 | not my favorite companion. Sure. |
| 1:44.9 | But Billy Piper did great on Doctor Who. And, you know, reappeared for many years after she |
| 1:50.9 | formally left the show because she's just such an iconic character. Anyway. With iconic |
| 1:57.4 | trashy divorces to you? A bit, yeah. Let's do this. |
| 2:00.9 | And marriages while we're at it. |
| 2:03.4 | Alicia, I've been in a bit of a nostalgic mood lately, so I've been revisiting the early seasons of the modern version of Doctor Who, which was rebooted by BBC in 2005 after I think a 16-year absence from the world's television screens. It was missed. |
| 2:20.1 | I got into it probably around 2009, so my first doctor was Matt Smith with the Amy and Rory |
| 2:26.8 | Pond arc. That was my real-time experience. But basically, binging Dr. Who at night was part of my |
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