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.

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.

"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.

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.