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Hotel Babylon
Starts Thursday 19 January at 9.00pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE
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Emma Pierson plays Anna Thornton-Wilton, Head of Reception
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Emma Pierson has loved playing the part of the foxy and outspoken Anna, mostly because she has been able to take the character to the extremes of comedy within the drama.
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"You will love to hate Anna – she is a single 26-year-old 'girl's girl', but a bitch at the same time, who is seriously husband-hunting and will move in on her prey when she finds the right millionaire.
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"She's had several pets to keep her company but keeps forgetting to feed them and will only have someone in her life if they are prepared to love her as much as she loves herself," she laughs.
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"She now believes this empty façade she has created for herself - that she comes from a posh, polished background - and it would appear she has forgotten the truth about where she really comes from," she adds.
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"She loves her glamour and you can imagine at home she sits around in fluffy kitten-heel slippers, surrounded by Balenciaga and Gucci - I don't have to ground her character and she gives me an opportunity to play comedy while Tamzin and Max play out the drama of Babylon," she explains.
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Anna becomes close to colleague Ben on reception because, in Emma's words, "They respect each other's bitch!"
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They snipe at each other and fall out, but watch each other's backs when the boss is around.
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Emma, a keen photographer, has been busy in 2005 and has just finished working with world-renowned photographer Rankin on his first film, called The Lives of a Saint, directed by Rankin and Chris Cotton.
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As the Artistic Director of an Italian clothing company, Melting Pot, Rankin was asked to direct an advert and instead suggested making a film featuring the Melting Pot products.
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"Rankin offered me a part in his film but as it developed I became more involved in the creative process as much as acting, and it was such a joy to work on.
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"With commercial films there is so much money invested that you can really luxuriate over the time and process - so it became something I thoroughly enjoyed doing," she explains.
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Riot at the Rite is a film for ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO, due for transmission in the spring, in which Emma stars as Romola Nijinsky opposite Adam Garcia.
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"The film charts the first-ever performance of Stravinsky and Nijinsky's famous ballet, The Rite of Spring, and the ensuing uproar in Paris when it was performed in 1916," she says.
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"The film condenses the true life story of the coming together of Vaslav and Romola through passion, determination and having a dream and going after it - which is in real life what Romola did; she saw him, she wanted him, she went after him and she got him, much like Anna - except she hasn't quite found her man yet," she laughs. Ìý
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