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FIRST&LAST FREYA MAVOR The Skins and Sunshine on Leith star loves lucky Leith star loves lucky lobsters, kitten cafés and lobsters, kitten cafés and The Brave Little Toaster The Brave Little Toaster
First film you saw that really moved you When I was a little tot I watched The Brave Little Toaster, a story about five household items (toaster, blanket, lamp, vacuum and a radio) who, after being abandoned, go on a lo abandoned, go on a long quest to search for their origin search for their original owner. IT’S SO DAMN SWE IT’S SO DAMN SWEET.
Last time someone criticised Last time someone c your work your work Surely someone who was drunk Surely someone who w shouted ‘Skins is shit! shouted ‘Skins is shit!’ at me. It’s not everyone’s cup of not everyone’s cup of tea! First crush First crush When I was 12, a guy in the year When I was 12, a guy above me at school in above me at school in France. I would casually ‘turn u would casually ‘turn up’ at the skate park when I kne skate park when I knew he’d be there. Eventually I got there. Eventually I got up the coc urage to tell him I li courage to tell him I liked him – hhis response was that his response was that he was into ‘‘older women’. Hah. ‘older women’. Hah.
Last funny thing you saw online Last funny thing you The first episode of Castings on ThT e first episode of C Canal+, a comedy sketch show CaCaC nal+, a comedy s I did with som I did with some brilliant French com French comedians. I hahah dn’t seen hadn’t seen anything up titilll now – i till now – it’s hilarious!
First object you’d First obje save from your save from burning home burning h My lucky lobster My lucky – no it’s not a real – no it’s lobster, lobster, don’t worry! worry!
Last meal on earth I would have one last Khushi’s takeaway – it’s an Indian restaurant on Broughton Street in Edinburgh [now moved to Antigua Street] that our family have been going to ever since I can remember. First thing you’d do if you ran the country Make everyone give out at least three compliments a day, make all education free and create some ‘kitten cafés’ – where people can go pet kittens over a creamy espresso. Mmmmm.
First song at your (potential) wedding Jo Stafford – ‘No Other Love’. Last song at your funeral Faces – ‘Ohh La La’.
First person you’d thank in an award acceptance speech Ma mumma. Last lie you told ‘It wasn’t me!’ . . . Looks over to empty box of chocolates.
First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning Mmmmm, what’ll I have for breakfast?
Last thing you think of before you go to sleep Mmmmm, what’ll I have for breakfast?
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Last thing you recommended to someone Avoid anything sung by the likes of Pitbull like the plague. ■ Sunshine on Leith goes on general release on Fri 4 Oct. See review, page 61.
Misadventures IN WONDERLAND
BURLESCAPADES This month we sent Alice to Burlesque classes with Gypsy Charms. Here’s what she discovered.
Charms, was in fact very charming. There was 5. So is it just smug stripping? I’d had an
a lot of laughing as she paraded around, almost obnoxious conversation years ago with someone
conducting the class like an audience participation who talked about her ‘art’ while using some pretty
show (another thing I’d thought I’d hate). stag-do language about exotic dancers. Surely
3. How sexy was I? The whole thing is based on sneering at another group of vagina-owners is
a caricature of femininity. I learned how to pose against any gender empowerment you’re trying to
properly and how to bend to make my chest and promote?
arse look bigger while adorning an exaggerated I realise now that it was her I didn’t like. She was
range of facial expressions. My favourite piece of my i rst encounter with burlesque and I presumed
1. What was I expecting? I presumed this was
advice about messing up choreography was ‘act everyone else would be the same. I guess I’m
just going to be another fresh hell which List HQ
like you were right’: I’m going to apply this to every guilty of being judgemental too.
was going to put me through. I’ve never been
aspect of my life. I was doing all sorts of thrusting, Think what you like about provocatively taking
interested in burlesque because it’s always
tiger paws and bum wiggles. So, was I sexy? Very. off your clothes for money or entertainment, but
seemed like smug stripping. I was expecting it to
4. Really? No. Turn to your pet right now and say being in control of your own sexuality is important.
be bitchy and snooty and I prepared myself to be
‘be sexy’. That blank reaction? That’s what I looked I’ve not been fully converted yet but I’ve come a
ignored by a bunch of clique divas.
like. Despite how liberating the class was, I don’t long way in a one-hour class. I can now see the
2. What actually happened? Well, the rant I had
have the heart of a cabaret performer. I was doing appeal once all the pretentiousness of one bad
planned on writing has been totally ruined. It was all the right moves but I reckon I was dead behind
a full class of mainly friendly, boisterous women the eyes . . . Wait, I’m not saying your dog has
in their 50s: my favourites. The teacher, Gypsy ‘moves’. Let’s stop talking about this.
apple has been stripped away. ■ Gypsy Charms’ Burlesque class takes place every Thursday at Falkirk Town Hall.
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