Skin's Freddie Talks To FemaleFirst

05 March 2009

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Skins has become something of a phenomenon over the past three years and with a new cast all settled in, this series has arguably been the best yet.

Sex, drugs and booze. Yes, this has all of that and more- throw in lots of nudity, some saucy S&M and lesbianism and you have all the ingredients for the guilty pleasure that is Skins.

However, it's with a certain apprehension that I sit down to chat to the lovely Luke Pasqualino, who plays the adorable Freddie on the show, as lets face it, he's pretty cute for a skateboarding pot head.

The whole of FemaleFirst have admittedly become very enamoured with the new male cast of the show, so interviewing the main man does cause a flurry of excitement around the office.

So, giggling like an adolescent schoolgirl, I caught up with the boy himself to chat about Skins, Hollywood ambitions and why he's supporting a new bullying campaign...

Hi, how are you?
I'm great thanks, how are you?

Oh, you know great! Well, not actually great but well.. (as I tail off into deafening silence, I manage to regain my composure to ask... So, what have you been up to recently?
Well, we've been doing lots of promotion for the show and the series, because obviously it's out on air now, so we want to keep its profile up and we're just doing marketing for the series and try and get everybody interested in it. Yeah, a lot of that really...

Are you really close to the Skins cast in real life?
Oh, we're brilliant friends, we're all from such tight knit families and a lot of the time you get people from different backgrounds and they've all got such different view points on life, and brought up completely differently, and you know you can't see them getting on, but we all get on like a house on fire.

Your pretty new to the whole fame thing, how are you coping with that?
Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph', it's a compliment I think. It's their way of saying 'I'm enjoying what you're doing' [FF: Do you get called Freddie a lot?] Yeah, I do! I was walking through Oxford Street the other day and a load of girls shouted 'Freddie!' at me and I just answer to the name Freddie now too.

Do you get a lot more female attention now you're famous?
Yea, erm...I think well, around 80% of the people who come up to you on the street who want an autograph are girls, so yeah... a fair bit! [FF: Have you had any unusual fan mail?] Not really no. I've had a couple of fan mail letters through the door and stuff, but everything's been really positive and really good and nice. Keep sending those bad boys through! (I laugh a little too much at this, before it heading to silent town again)

So...how did you get the role on Skins?
Well, my agent sent me to an open audition, so I went there and got there about 12 0'clock and had to wait about 4 and a half hours! It was just a general audition, to see if they could bring you back for a part, so I got called back and then the second audition I was always Freddie then till the end.

Have you done any acting work before this?
This is my first job under my agent, but I've done amateur theatre work and stuff as I was growing up, but no nothing to this scale!