Margo Stilley
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Margo Stilley (born November 20, 1982, Bear Creek, North Carolina, U.S.A.) is an American actress and former model.
[edit] Film and Television Roles
Stilley portrayed Lisa in the controversial 2004 British film 9 Songs, directed by Michael Winterbottom. According to the Guardian, 9 Songs was the most sexually explicit mainstream film to date, largely because it includes several scenes of real sexual acts between the two lead actors. Due to the controversy, Stilley asked that director Michael Winterbottom refer to her simply by her character's name in interviews about the film.
After the controversy surrounding 9 Songs Stilley originally planned to leave acting, however she has played a few small roles since then. In 2006 she guest-starred as Roma Sheraton in the British television comedy series Mayo. In 2007 she appeared in the horror film Reverb, in another highly explicit role. [1]
She currently is filming How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and "Hippie Hippie Shake."
She is currently filming opposite James Jagger in the upcoming Suicide Kids.
[edit] Personal quotes
- "Even if I never make another film, I still think it's great." (on her sexually explicit movie 9 Songs)
- "I suppose coming from a background that tells you, 'Sex is bad, you're going to hell, sex is bad,' and then seeing on the news that the president is having an affair, it's not really put in a good light. So I wanted to be part of a film, a beautiful film, about something that should be viewed in a beautiful light. This is a nice thing, it's fun, everyone does it, it's great and when it's safe - and we're promoting safe sex - and when it's someone you're in love with, it's great."
- "I have sex in my private life, in a much less tame manner than was on the film. I imagine that many, many people my age have had sex with someone they do not particularly care for at some point in their lives. It shouldn't be such a big deal."
- "I'm the worst model in the world. But I enjoyed it, it was great. You travel all over the world and get paid a stupid amount of money for doing absolutely nothing."
- "I wanted to make a film about something I really believe in, which is to show sex in a very positive light, as a very important piece of everyday life and a very important piece of a relationship, whether it's successful or unsuccessful. What I find in films I see is that sex is always a turning point in action, someone's cheating on someone, or someone dies. It's always the kids having sex in horror films that die. And I didn't like that. And in the sexually explicit films I've seen like Ai No Corrida (the Japanese classic in which the heroine cuts off her partner's penis), they're crazy, people don't do that, it's not normal!" (on why she made 9 Songs)
