Skins :)

Hi, so yeah! (Excellent start, Emily. Pat on the back)

Waking up in london at 5am, getting ready and packing outfits - my idea of fun.
I then got a couple of tubes to hammersmith apollo where I got onto the coach to Bristol. Coinkidink as it may be, a friend from school was going too, so I sat with him and everrrrryone made friends so fast.
We went to this really old school, virtually deserted bowling alley to sign contracts and release forms then walked over to the studio to get changed and go through wardrobe, hair and makeup checks. It was a long 13 hour shift with a lot of waiting in the back but even more waiting on set in the club. It was wellll draining and welllllll exhausting.
I've done a lot of theatre and musical theatre but it was so cool to see all the techie haps of tv. Cameras EVERYWHERE. For someone who subconsciously cups her breasts sometimes, the swarming cameras were fairly unsettling.
Inbetween takes, there'd be the make up ladies coming up to you and reapplying foundation AND THEN SPRAYING WATER OVER IT TO MAKE YOU LOOK SWEATY. wot iz da point, man. i was swetty anywai, yh.

for 13 or so hours, we had to dance 'as if coked off our faces' to Bonkers. Not once did we hear the song all the way through. It's weird how long it took to film a 3 minute scene, i guess, but there was a club full of people with specific instructions every second of the way - so maybe its not so mental that it took so long.

Me and a girl really clicked so we had sex. No. A girl and I clicked and we were together for the whole day really. Turned out she worked for Channel four. This meant I pretty much got access all areas and I fucking loved it. I'm not good at the whole fan girl CAN I HAZ PHOTO WITH YOU thing, so it was good to be sitting with the cast upstairs, and just talking, laughing, messing around. gotzz me a few contacts along the way, so it was awesome. I loved just.. being a friend as opposed to a fan. Having a cigarette with Luke (Freddie) on some random roof and playing 'would you rather', pelvic thrusting with Ollie (JJ), getting ripped to shreds on my brum accent and LOST voice by Jack (cook) and elbowing Lisa (pandora) in the head. That last bit was a mistake because we got overexcited.

This bit, for skins fans: seriously, Freddie is so much hotter in real life but COOK. On tv, he's just a raging chav. In real life, he's a sexy flirty raging chav. Really though, he's barely different to his character, which is a bit frightening. JJ is DEFINITELY the nicest, most fun one to be around and Pandora is mental. The twins are hilarious but they were shattered. Lily Loveless, who plays Naomi, was sulking the whole way through. She had to do her lesbo kiss about eighty times cos of some camera angle mistakes. Da boiz luvd it. I will tell you that there is a new Skins character. Soph. She is virtually identical to Season 1 and 2's, Cassie but a brunette. A lot of the series revolves around her and her shocking.. event? ;)

I loved series 1 and 2 of skins, but as FUCKING HOT as the new cast may be, series 3 was, in all honesty, shocking. Episode one of series 4 suggests that its improving - despite it only lasting for 8 episodes. If you're a psycho fan I'll tell you if you want, but it's more fun left unsaid.

Before I go to bed(at about 5.45 in the afternoon), I would like to say something else. I don't generally do that whole 'oohhh I'm moaning about you in a blog because I don't have the balls to say it to your face' shit. But it did bother me.
I can not WAIT for you to get something you're really excited about in your life that you REALLY want to show off because you're well happy for yourself. Because I'll piss all over it like you did for me.
'I hate skins' - fine. that IS fine. When there isn't an active discussion about Skins happening on twitter, but instead, me saying how stupidly happy I am about where I am, what you're saying isn't necessary. Just shut the fuck up, a little bit? sometimes? I always ignore it when people say twatty/moany/condescending things because internet drama is far too 12 yr old for me. This blog is reee-heeally not supporting that statement, but thats because it is a bit upsetting that you can't let some things go? Obviously just 2 or 3 people fucked me off, the rest of you were lovely.
Skins is a good ol' (but not old) cult classic for teenagers, the teenagers that live up to the 'fun time current music club sexytime' stereotype as opposed to the 'lazy internet' stereotype or the 'i killed 5 men in the ethnic foods aisle of morrisons with a bottle of lambrini' stereotype.
I have decided to stick with it, despite the shocking thing that was series 3. I had sosoososos much fun :)
Can't wait for season five in like, what, 2 years?

emilia x