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Little Birds’s Juno Temple reveals erotic stories lit a ‘sexual fire’ in her while acting in raunchy new series
LITTLE Birds's Juno Temple has revealed the erotic stories lit a 'sexual fire' in her while acting in the raunchy new series.
The 31-year-old actress stars in the Sky Atlantic drama which is inspired by Anaïs Nin’s posthumously published 1979 collection of erotic short stories.
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The show is set in 1955 in Tangier and combines stories of love and desire with personal drama and political intrigue.
The heady mix had a lasting effect on Juno, who told The Sun's TV Mag: "The stories awoke a sort of sexual fire in me I didn’t know I had, so to have something come into your life that was a pretty monumental read at 17 was pretty cool.
"I made a lot of notes in the script where I wanted actual direct quotes from Little Birds and I got a couple of them in there which was really exciting."
Speaking about reading the books in her teenage years, she added: "Little Birds was a very poignant book for me at 17.
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"I thought it was very cool to be a part of a woman exploring erotica in a way that was very brave and new for the time.
"I think that it’s quite rare to have such a collection of inspirational and complex and difficult roles and characters within a show."
Juno stars in the series alongside Yumna Marwan, Hugh Skinner and Jean-Marc Barr.
Hugh plays Hugo, a gay man who enters into a relationship with Juno's character Lucy.
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Speaking about the character, he said: "Despite being gay and deciding to marry a woman, he’s really lucked out with Lucy actually because she proves to be incredible.
"All the characters are outsiders in a way and it’s largely about them taking ownership of their otherness and transcending the situation.
"And I think he’s lucky to be with Lucy as she finds liberation and he… without giving anything away… improves."
Little Birds begins on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday, August 4 at 9pm. TV Mag is available every Saturday, only in The Sun.
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