‘Little Birds (Series)’ premieres tomorrow! As preparation for this big event, we’ve released an exclusive, very detailed package:

• the press pack made for journalists about the series (many thanks to @EastieOaks at Twitter)
• an interview, made by The Guardian
• two new promo photos

Check them out here:

Press pack (warning, contains spoilers!)

Television > (2020) Little Birds > Promotional Images

And the interview comes after the “More” tag!

In ‘Little Birds’, Sky Atlantic’s sultry new Anaïs Nin-inspired drama series, Juno Temple and Hugh Skinner play Lucy Savage and Hugo Cavendish-Smyth, newlyweds who met in the cultural maelstrom of 1950’s Tangier. Wedded bliss, and even the marriage’s consummation, will have to wait, however, because Lucy is a naively virginal American debutante and Hugo is a closeted English lord involved in a dangerous romantic entanglement with an Anglo-Egyptian man. Both of them, in other words, are the repressed products of a confused time.

The actors, by contrast, get along swimmingly. When we connect over Zoom to discuss the show, Temple and Skinner chime in on each others’ anecdotes and enjoy making each other laugh. Did they try to go method by avoiding contact with each other? “Are you kidding?” cackles Temple. “No, we hung out the entire time!” confirms Skinner merrily.

(…) Temple, from her Los Angeles porch, is a naturally curly hippy chick with multiple necklaces and a ciggie on the go. They look relaxed and tanned – as if they’ve just come back from an extended break in Morocco, in fact. “I would definitely want to go and spend a week in the Tangier that we created” says Temple. “I think it would be a hell of a good time.”

(…) “It’s not your quintessential, what people think of as ‘erotic’,” says Temple, who has been a fan of the writer for years. “That might have been skewed by porn and those images that kind of tilt our brains. Actually, real eroticism is about like how somebody’s sweat tastes or how somebody’s hair feels in certain places, or what the lack of touch creates. That’s something that I was really struck by, at 17, reading Little Birds.”

(…) For Temple, the writing’s nonjudgmental quality allows themes – both international and intimate – to come to the fore. “Sometimes you can be turned on by things that you might be frightened to be judged for – especially in the 1950s, when being gay was something that was soooo not OK. And that’s just touching the surface. For Lucy, finding out who she is and what makes her tick in all different ways, was such an incredible journey. Having so many women present was, I mean, sensational!”

Temple comes across as entirely at ease with all things sexual – as you’d expect from an actor whose breakthrough Hollywood role in ‘Killer Joe’ involved full-frontal nudity: “I don’t really get nervous for a sex scene,” she says looking almost bored by the notion. “I’ve done quite a few of them now. (…)” The key, she says, is still good communication, just as it was before the #MeToo era of on-set intimacy coaches: “Ultimately, it’s between you two and about making sure that boundaries are covered between the two of you. It doesn’t have to involve even the director.” 

(…) Temple’s way in was also through a period detail, though a more tangible one. “The dress I had to wear on our wedding night was one of the tightest pieces of clothing I’ve ever worn. I think that’s a big change for women; we aren’t constantly being squished into tiny pieces of clothing that might make you faint. We can sit like a man – or, like a human, I guess, is a better way of saying it.”

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