Actress Margo Stilley has insisted she is “proud” of her racy flick 9 Songs which included real-life sex scenes.
The actress made her film debut in the controversial flick which came out in 2004. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, it is widely regarded as the most sexually explicit mainstream film ever made in the UK.
Margo and her co-lead Kieran O’Brien filmed real sex acts on camera and the scenes were raunchy that they sparked debate at the time as to whether the film should be categorised as pornography. But Margo insists she wanted to do it and is still proud of the movie.
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Playing roles of Lisa and Matt, the plot follows Margo and Kieran throughout their 12-month relationship with a variety of steamy unsimulated scenes that saw the duo often engage in masturbation, oral sex and full penetrative intercourse.
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At one point in the flick, meanwhile, Margo performs a h***job on Kieran, which led to him becoming the first actor to be shown ejaculating in a mainstream UK feature. Margo says she later received “abuse” at press conferences to promote the film, with attendees shouting “sl**” and “wh**e” at her as well as her being told she was a poor role model for young women.
“I am not at all like my character Lisa, and I was genuinely shocked by the reaction to the film and, particularly, to my role in it,” Margo told the Irish Independent. “It was a film about love and sex. It wasn’t porn.
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I mean, I had sex with my boyfriend last night and that wasn’t porn. It was just hot sex! 9 Songs was a real film about love and sex, and I wanted to do that film and I am proud of it.”
Explaining how she got into acting, Margo revealed she grew up in the American South with her dad, whose family were genteel plantation owners. “We had a big Southern house in Conway [a town in South Carolina], and I had nannies and stuff,” she said.
“I had to go to church at least twice a week. We were told sex was bad and sex was wrong, and if you had sex outside marriage you’d die and stuff. I found it all very depressing.”
Thrown out of the home at 16, Margo managed to enroll at a university in North Carolina but walked out one day having been given a grant that should have been spent on her education. Instead she spent the cash on a flight to Milan where she dreamed of becoming a model.
“I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. So I thought, ‘Oh, I know, I’ll be a model’,” she explained. “I went in to see one of them [modelling agency] and they basically said, ‘Great, you’re hired’.”
Margo added: “It was full of girls like me, only they weren’t like me. They weren’t really interested in anything apart from clothes and their nails. They were very boring and silly. I looked at all these very young girls and thought, ‘Since when did I get so short and fat?”‘
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Disillusioned with life once more, she moved on to London and landed a part in an Israeli advertisement, despite claiming she had no ambition to become an actress. “The people making [the advert] somehow knew the casting people for 9 Songs,” she added.
Thankfully despite the film’s reception, Margo wasn’t typecast. She went on to star in variety of genres with roles in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Marple: Murder Is Easy, and The Royals.
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