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 she went on I’d Do Anything, which searched for the next Nancy in the West End revival of Oliver!.
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 BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs: “I was so little.
“It meant so much. I was so raw.”
Bafta winner Jessie, 36 — also a Best Actress nominee for Hamnet at this month’s Oscars — 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.
