'It Was Normal Sex Not Silly Stuff'

SEXY ACTRESS UNCOVERED

The woman behind the most sexually explicit film in the history of mainstream British cinema has insisted it was about "normal sex" not "crazy stuff".

Margo Stilley had wanted to remain anonymous and asked for her name not to appear on the closing credits of Nine Songs, in which she plays the female lead.


With her identity, however, out in the open and her religious mother praying for her twice a day, the 21-year-old American admitted: "I have managed to get myself into a mess."

Nine Songs, directed by Michael Winterbottom, consists almost entirely of real sex scenes.

Screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival, critics were left stunned by the explicit content.

Of the media furore surrounding the controversial film, Stilley, who has no previous acting experience, said: "I'm surprised, and even more by the fact that I've brought most of it on myself."

She told The Guardian's G2 supplement: "It isn't shocking. If you know you are going to watch a film like this, it's not abrasive.

"It's normal sex that everyone has, not crazy stuff."

It is called Nine Songs because the sex scenes are intercut with film of nine gigs they attend.