Rachel Stevens: I would strip for movie sex scene

Posted in Articles, S Club News on Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Rachel StevensLook out boys, gorgeous Rachel Stevens says she would happily strip off for a sex scene.The former S Club singer has hung her microphone up for a while and wants to pursue an acting career.

And she told the Razz she’d be comfortable with taking her clothes off in the line of duty.

Rachel said: “I’m with an acting management company. We’re looking at the script for a great romantic comedy play at the moment.

“Some of the scripts I’ve read have full-on sex scenes and stuff like that but that’s part of it. You’ve got to go for it.”

Rachel said she had enrolled to study an acting technique which would help her overcome any fears about getting naked on stage or screen.

She said: “It’s basically about being fully truthful in the moment and putting your attention on to the other person. It taught me that when you are in the moment and take on a role, that it doesn’t matter about these things.

“You’re not thinking about yourself, so don’t have that awkwardness about being naked in front of all the crew.”

Sexy Rachel enjoyed solo success with songs like Sweet Dreams My LAX and Some Girls following her stint in the pop group S Club.

She says that turning 30 changed her outlook in life, and although she has fond memories of her days with the band, she is keen to move on to new pastures.

“Although I would love to do more singing at some point, it’s not the right time for me to get back into it at the moment,” she said.

“I’m throwing myself into acting and focusing on that.

“I just turned 30 in April and, when you get to 30, you get a sense of who you are and a new-found confidence.”

Rachel is in the process of moving in to a new home with boyfriend Alex Lee, her childhood sweetheart.

The pair went out for four weeks aged 11, but hadn’t seen one another for 17 years until a chance meeting in a shop.

Alex is obviously her No.1, but she says her leading men on screen would ideally be George Clooney or Johnny Depp.

Rachel didn’t get to star with either of them when she voiced her new acting role in BBC animated series Glendogie Bogey, but she did have the privilege of starring with renowned Scots actors Alex Norton and Peter Capaldi.

Rachel plays the voice of Patricia, a cheeky and fun girl who helps out a supernatural investigating team on their latest case, before she is abducted by the legendary Glendogie Bogey - a fearsome creature that lurks in the caves beneath a remote Highland golf course.

The 30-minute cartoon follows on from the Scottish BAFTA nominated Haunted Hogmanay.

She said: “Peter and Alex were really good and the faces we pulledmust have looked absolutely ridiculous as we did the voiceover.

“The character I’d envisaged bounced off Alex and Peter and I ended up throwing myself around as I screamed and got into character.

“Alex was hilariously funny and both guys suited their characters so well.

“I’ve been told I sound quite Scottish in bits, too, and I thought maybe their accent had rubbed off onme.

“I would have had a singsong in it, but Patricia definitely can’t sing.”

Rachel still thinks fondly of her days in music and hasn’t completely ruled out an S Club reunion in the future.

She admitted: “After my second album, I wanted to take some time out.

The pop world was changing so much. I also wanted to take some time out for myself and I loved living in LA.

“If it came about that S Club could do a tour, I’d be up for it, but everyone is busy with other stuff right now.

“It’s brilliant that The Spice Girls and Take That have returned and have such a massive following, but that’s because music holds memories and if S Club got back together, it would be a celebration of those memories.”

Glendogie Bogey is on BBC1 Scotland on Sunday, May 25, at 4.35pm.

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