{"id":27458,"date":"2022-12-20T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1758266"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:43:06","slug":"billie-piper-explains-i-hate-suzie-toos-unsettling-clown-dance-scene","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/billie-piper-explains-i-hate-suzie-toos-unsettling-clown-dance-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Piper explains I Hate Suzie Too\u2019s unsettling clown dance scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The second season of dark comedy series I Hate Suzie, called I Hate Suzie Too<\/a>, starts tonight (20th December) on Sky Atlantic and NOW<\/a>, and it sees Billie Piper\u2019s Suzie Pickles taking part in a popular dance reality competition show, Dance Crazee.<\/p>\n

In the opening moments of the new season, Suzie performs a dance on the show where she is dressed as a clown, in which she appears almost crazed and distressed at times. It does not go down well with the viewers and she receives the lowest score of the night.<\/p>\n

RadioTimes.com<\/a> caught up exclusively with Piper and the series\u2019s co-creator and writer Lucy Prebble, to break down this unsettling scene.<\/p>\n

Piper said of Suzie\u2019s thinking in this moment: \u201cShe really wants to shirk this sexual, slut shaming image that we saw a lot in the first season. And sometimes the best way to do that is to completely mask yourself. And de-sexualize yourself and somehow make yourself as inaccessible as possible. And so the makeup, the costume just felt like a great way to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Billie Piper as Suzie Pickles in I Hate Suzie Too.<\/span><\/figcaption> Sky<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Piper continued: \u201cAnd her ambition [is] that, \u2018Oh, they\u2019ll like this, they\u2019ll really dig this because it\u2019s alternative, it\u2019s fun, it\u2019s a side of me that people haven\u2019t seen before, I can be silly and things,\u2019 and actually the audience receive it as, \u2018You\u2019re being pretentious, you\u2019re unreadable. It\u2019s cold, and women shouldn\u2019t be clowns.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200cMeanwhile, Prebble added: \u201cFormally, thematically, there was an interesting thing about the internal and the external. One of the big themes is on stage and off stage [is], like, \u2018Who are you with the smile and the makeup? And who are you actually underneath that, who isn\u2019t smiling?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I think that first dance, we were moving between the external experience of her being very colourful, and trying to people please and do the splits and be a good dancer, and her internal of \u2018S**t, what\u2019s the next move? 123? Okay, what do I need to do next?’\u201d<\/p>

\u200cPiper also said the dance was showing what Suzie \u201cthinks about herself\u201d. \u201cWhich is, \u2018I\u2019m sort of like a monster in these moments.\u2019 It\u2019s her shadow self.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piper previously said that this season\u2019s dance element was added in part because she wanted to dance<\/a>, adding: \u201cWhat\u2019s good about doing [I Hate Suzie] is that it feels like I\u2019m getting to do\u00a0Strictly<\/a> without having to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Abby Robinson<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I Hate Suzie Too is coming to Sky and NOW<\/a> on 20th December 2022. Find out more about\u00a0how to sign up for Sky TV here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Christmas double issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now<\/b><\/span> \u2013\u00a0<\/b>subscribe now<\/b><\/span><\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<\/b>Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/body><\/html>\n

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