ACTRESS Jessie Buckley today tells of her regret at the BBC trying to make her teenage self into a woman on a talent show.
The star was 17 in 2008 when , which searched for the next Nancy in the West End revival of Oliver!.
Jessie Buckley regrets the BBC trying to make her teenage self into a woman on a talent showCredit: Getty
Asked about having to wear heels to look more womanly, she says: “I don’t like that part of it.
“I was a young woman who was trying to discover her body and herself — like we all do — and that is growing up.
“I wish that hadn’t happened and I think I was putting a brave face on.
“What I wanted to do was sing and . . . all of a sudden you had to be a certain kind of person and I just wasn’t.”
Reflecting on watching herself, she tells Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs: “I was so little.
“It meant so much. I was so raw.”
, 36 — also a Best Actress nominee for at this month’s — says she took home her fake baby bump from filming to “try and feel what it felt like to be pregnant”.
She and former TV producer husband Freddie Sorensen had a girl late last year.
Jessie reached the final of I’d Do Anything in 2008Credit: Not known
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