Skins star says she’s handled higher as a intercourse employee than when she was on the present
Skins star Megan Prescott first discovered fame when she strutted onto our screens as red-headed twin Katie f***ing Finch, alongside her real-life twin Kathryn.
Since then, the actor has made numerous controversial profession strikes, first when she began working as a stripper and extra just lately when she joined OnlyFans.
However whereas the then-16-year-old admits she would’ve ‘executed something’ to get on the present, she has since revealed how she’s felt higher handled as a intercourse employee, having been closely sexualised by means of her character.
The distinction is that she is the one earning money from her physique and her picture, not the folks in fits who run the present.
“The hypocrisy has at all times caught with me. I used to be on TV, as a toddler, having intercourse scenes, on a present the place lots of people made some huge cash,” the now 34-year-old told Cosmopolitan.
“If we’re collectively okay with that — which whether or not or not we must be or not is a distinct story — then why can’t I, as a grown girl, take possession of my picture and sexuality again and earn thrice as a lot?”
After engaged on Skins for 2 years, and turning into synonymous together with her sassy character within the eyes of the general public, she discovered it tough to seek out extra appearing work, given the crude nature of the present, which famously featured intercourse and medicines closely.
“Then, a few years after it was ‘Effectively, you’ve not been in something for some time’. I didn’t go to uni, so I didn’t have a level to fall again on. I used to be doing all of those part-time or zero contract jobs,” she defined.
Megan was working in her native Wetherspoons and would repeatedly be questioned by prospects as to what she was doing there, following her fame on the E4 programme.
However she thinks folks have misconceptions concerning the amount of cash she and her friends had been making.
“Folks suppose we made much more cash than we really did in Skins. We labored it out by the hour as soon as, and it was minimal wage. After all, £400 every week to a 16-year-old I used to be like ‘I’m wealthy’ however while you look again… Our contacts additionally meant we don’t see any cash from any streaming platforms.”
On the age of 23, Megan was launched to stripping by a buddy, and though she was initially reluctant, she shortly realised she had ‘nothing to lose’.
As soon as she obtained began and met the opposite intercourse staff, she realised that the best way males had been treating her was no totally different to every other job she’d executed, ‘solely there if somebody talks to me badly, or doesn’t pay, I can get this huge safety guard over’.
She went on to say intercourse work was a ‘big sigh of reduction’ as a result of what you see is strictly what you get.
“You need me to get bare for you and do a dance? Okay, I do know what to anticipate. In appearing, it’s not like that. It’s very obscure,” Megan stated.
“I’m executed blaming one business for the issue, as these are worldwide, generic issues that permeate each business. There’s no business the place you don’t get handled in a different way since you’re a girl, or since you’re working class or due to your immigration standing however, in some industries, significantly, intercourse work and appearing, it turns into extra outstanding.”
In 2020, the actor joined OnlyFans and admits that being a creator is what offers her the monetary and artistic freedom to work on all her appearing, writing and directing tasks.
“Once I went into OnlyFans my buddy stated to me, ‘There are already males getting off to you, so wouldn’t you somewhat them get off to you as an grownup than this intercourse scene you probably did while you had been 17?'” she stated.
“We see it with youngster stars on a regular basis. They’re extremely sexualised, however then as quickly as they get to an age the place they’re like, ‘You’re proper, this does make cash however I’m going to be the primary benefactor of it’, persons are like ‘Cease, I don’t like the thought of you promoting sexuality’. They need girls to be sexual, however solely beneath their management.”
Now, Megan campaigns on behalf of intercourse staff to vary the general public’s perceptions, in addition to writing and starring in her personal theatre present, Actually Good Publicity.
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