Actor defends real-life intercourse scenes she is ‘proud’ of in controversial movie

An actress who starred in a controversial movie which featured unsimulated intercourse scenes mentioned she was ‘proud’ of her efficiency regardless of the criticism she obtained.

Margo Stilley, 42, managed to ruffle various feathers when she starred within the 2004 film 9 Songs, which was directed by Michael Winterbottom.

The erotic artwork movie, starring the US actress and Brit star Kieran O’Brien, paperwork the extreme relationship of a pair who meet on the Black Insurgent Bike Membership.

However the flick is extra about lovemaking than motorbikes, as Stilley and O’Brien spend nearly all of it rolling across the sheets.

There are a ton of saucy scenes in 9 Songs – and though most actors feign fornication on a film set, these two acquired down and soiled for actual.



The choice to have unsimulated intercourse scenes within the movie proved to be a controversial one, as Winterbottom’s challenge infamously holds the title of essentially the most sexually express mainstream movie.

Stilley was simply 21 on the time of the discharge and because of the raunchy contents of 9 Songs, she initially requested to be recognized solely as ‘Lisa’ (her character’s identify) as an alternative.

However she considerably shot herself within the foot by making an attempt to stay nameless, as media shops scrambled to establish her.

Stilley instructed The Telegraph in a 2008 interview: “Newspapers had been working competitions with footage of me, saying, ‘Who’s this woman?’

“They had been providing rewards to readers in the event that they came upon who I used to be. It was ridiculous.”

In an earlier interview, Stilley additionally spoke out in defence of 9 Songs and her unsimulated intercourse scenes – and revealed that she obtained fairly an ‘offended’ reception from movie followers upon its launch.

“Individuals had been actually offended with me,” she told the Irish Unbiased in 2008. “After I did press conferences, individuals would shout abuse at me. You’d suppose I invented intercourse!

“I acquired instructed I used to be a wh**e and a s**t and ‘how may I do it’. And ‘what sort of function mannequin did I believe I used to be giving younger ladies?’ I imply, please…

“I did not invent intercourse! There’s an enormous intercourse trade on the market that is value billions.

“Individuals ask me if I felt that Michael Winterbottom took benefit of me as a result of I hadn’t acted earlier than, however they neglect that I developed the character.

Stilley then mentioned: “I’m not in any respect like my character Lisa, and I used to be genuinely shocked by the response to the movie and, notably, to my function in it.

“It was a movie about love and intercourse. It wasn’t porn. I imply, I had intercourse with my boyfriend final night time, and that wasn’t porn.

“It was simply sizzling intercourse! 9 Songs was an actual movie about love and intercourse, and I wished to do this movie and I’m happy with it.”

And who can argue with that, eh?