Talking dirty with the Ladies of the Lake
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Residents of Sweden may have seen posters for West End Star, a new reality TV show to find the next star of the Monty Python musical Spamalot. The show is in London but the producers turned to Sweden for the role of The Lady of the Lake.
The Daily Telegraph’s Marc Lee met the ten wannabees.
There’s the show jumper (Viktoria), the opera diva (Petra), the rock chick (Nina), the check-out girl (Karin), the student (Josefine), the waitress (Susannah), the pro (Divina), the mother (Sandra) and the sisters (Linda and Jenny).
Before long, the talk turns to sex.
“Why is it,” demands Viktoria, “that the British think Sweden is full of blonde girls all running around naked?”
Another wonders why we Brits are so uncomfortable discussing sex. (I have no sensible response.) “I remember my first time…” says Jenny with a wistful smile.
“I haven’t done it yet,” claims Nina, mischievously. “And I’ve only done it once,” says Sandra, pointing to the seven-week-old baby she’s cradling in her arms. In a disastrous attempt to change the subject, I inquire about the one word of Swedish included in the publicity material: what exactly is slutcasting? Stony silence: it seems by mispronouncing it so expertly, I have insulted everyone.
December 31st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
In reply to the comment above:
It has nothing to do with race and all to do with greedy, selfish individualism and opportunism.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
It was just a matter of time before the article devolved into sex talk. I blame the ridiculous Swedish words like slut.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
The Brits are not the only ones to think Sweden is full of blonde girls all running around naked. Most of people elsewhere think that as lovely blonde girls mostly exist in Sweden.
Why we Brits are so uncomfortable discussing sex: probably comes from Victorian epoch. Today, most of women cannot but get totally drunk in order to have sex, and forget everything a few hours later at dawn (the whole process is designed to preserve their superego).