Billie Piper in The Guardian

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did yuo read this interview in the guardian on thursday? what did you think?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

was it really yesterday?? if so my perception of time is really fucked, cos it seems like ages ago but i read the guardian on the tube home last night.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don 't see it in yesterday's.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It was Monday or perhaps last week.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

was she talking abt her appearance in the Canterbury Tales?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

yes but more about her showbiz breakdown

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 September 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

How was the Cant Tales thing? Any cop?

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i channel-flicked past it, saw billie kissing on some geezer and returned to whatever i wz watching (zero de conduite on video swank swank)

later i did the same again, and this time she was doing a bit of acting, and i wondered "ok is that actual acting or is she just imitating actual acting" and got caught in a spiral of ontological confusion

so classic

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It was great purely for the old man doing Morrissey karaoke.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 September 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

agree with matt, although i don't really see the point in the whole thing. why bother "updating" all this old stuff?

james nesbitt getting a hot poker up his arse was funny too ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing about it all was that, with the exception of the red hot poker, you realised how that divested of the original language and setting and the satire and so forth, it essentially became a bog-standard soap plot, didn't it?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Great N B-S review of this in the Guardian today:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,7493,1040521,00.html

In The Miller's Tale, Nick (James Nesbitt) runs out of petrol in a one-horse Kentish town, goes into the pub and sees this little gilt thing, as slim as a stoat, with a smile so wide it seems to be hooked over her ears. She is Alison (Billie Piper), the landlord's young wife. Dennis Waterman was heartbreakingly effective as her besotted husband. "I saw you singing, I saw how you looked and I knew I was too old. Then, when you said you loved me, that night you got thrown out of your flat..." He looked like one of the larger ruminants, who use their heads exclusively for battering interlopers.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

why bother "updating" all this old stuff?
Aw come on, why not.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

because it's just in-jokes to those who know the plots and duff soap/sit com for those who don't.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It was in Monday's Guardian.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I havn't read Chaucer, but the program seemed pretty cool to me. And Billie was ace in it. Ater spending all of Chris Evans' money, shes finally got off her arse and is doing some (really actually very good) work for a change. Hope she gets lot of other interesting roles.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

interview here:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1037552,00.html

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

is she still an item w.evans? (he asked idly)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, they're still together.

It's worth pointing out that each tale was given to a different scriptwriter, so there could be considerable variance in content/quality/tone throughout the series. I'm interested enough to keep watching.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, Chris is still taken I'm afraid Mark

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt we know you're only watching cos it involves the word Canterbury

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

gareth fooled by several monday G2/Medias piling up

― Ed (dali), Friday, 12 September 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i made an error. it was mondays yes, but what of the interview, what did you think of it?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 12 September 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the interview was rubbish, or that she was rubbish in the interview.

I think that updates can be good, but that Chaucer-without-Chaucer is an unpromising idea. BUT this particular programme or episode overcame that doubt. It was somehow good - genuinely, surprisingly effective. I am not sure that the correspondence with the original was extensive, but am not complaining about that.

One good thing about it was the Southern English county atmosphere.

Perhaps I imagined it.

I think old geezer as Morrissey was foolish old hat, lame television.

Idea that 'Waterman is too old for Piper' undermined by fact that Nesbitt is too old for Piper. Sod the pair of them.

Nesbitt did play his acting part well enough, though. So even did Waterman. I am struck again by the fact that Waterman has a terrible speaking voice - dry and strained - but has done endless voice-overs. His career is another silly mystery.

Piper herself seemed fine to me. Good moment: when she sang and I thought: ooh - she can sing - then remembered: oh, of course, she is a pop star! Perhaps that demonstrated that her acting was good enough.

Nancy B-S is overrated.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 13 September 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought she was very good as a young singer stuck in a relationship with an annoying old arsehole who everyone hates. I wonder what research she did for the role?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 September 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I think I really love her. And the Swindon accent. I think I have lost it.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

I quite love Billie too.

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

And the great thing from a moral perspective is that I didn't love her when she was 15.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Clean consciences all round!

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

How old is she now?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

16!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

don't you think that maggot off of celebrity big brother looks like david tennant?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't, no.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

well, he does

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

OK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

her mouth is very large. she is...affable.

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

If David Tennant's face were squeezed in a vice then yes, he would resemble Maggot.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 7 January 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

she is lovely, yes

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

tits

― trappist monkey, Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Two words - Chris Evans

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 7 January 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Equine. I approve.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 7 January 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Two words - Chris Evans

That's what I wonder about! Why would anyone willingly spend more than one minute in the presence of this cretin?

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

was he in america?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Her middle name is Paul!

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

And she was called Leanne for the first 3 weeks of her life!

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

so... she's on mahhhsterpiece theater now

― gff, Saturday, 22 March 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

And veddy good too. (the only other way we've gotten her over here is Dr Who; what a face for reaction shots!)

― dow, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:08 (seventeen years ago)

(Hers,I mean, def not the current Who's--although she's left, hasn't she? Waaah!)

― dow, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:10 (seventeen years ago)

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