
'Skins' Star on Child Porn Accusations: 'Everything at MTV Is Legal'

Blaine Morris, the sexy lesbian behind Betty Nardone on MTV's controversial new series 'Skins,' is an 18-year-old New Jersey native, who is downright nonplussed by all the hullabaloo. A musical theater performer throughout high school, Morris had only just a couple TV commercials under her belt when 'Skins' creator and head writer Bryan Elsley asked her to audition for a role.
Morris talked with
PopEater about the show's scandals -- PTC
skirmishes, allegations of
child porn violations -- and what it's like being part of MTV's hottest new property.
The show has been very controversial.
I think a lot of it has to do with people not actually watching the show and not knowing what the core values are about. They're just taking it for face value based on the commercials.
It's been accused of being pornographic.
It's not. Everything done at MTV is legal. They've had the scripts for months, and they're very good with that, and I would just tell people to watch the show. Watch it with your kids, even, and talk to them about the stuff that comes up in the show. We bring up a lot of topics that should be talked about.
Have you started getting recognized?
Yeah, I was at Macy's and one of the makeup artists said to me, "I watched 'Skins.' Are you on that show?"
You play a lesbian. Have you started getting letters from lesbians asking you out?
Of course. There are silly tweets like that, nothing I'm scared of.
I didn't mean scary. I just meant girls who have crushes on you?
Yeah, it's nice, I actually think. I'm glad that they identify with the show. It means I did my job well.
You can become a gay icon.
[Laughs] I guess.
Were you popular at school?
I think I was fairly popular. Everybody knew who I was, but I did my own thing. I was a theater geek.
See Blaine's onscreen girlfriend Sofia Black-D'Elia defend 'Skins' as "what teens are doing":
MTV is famously tight with the purse strings. You making bus fare?
Oh yes, yes. I have my own apartment in the city now. I was able to afford that.
Originally you worked as a writer on the show?
A friend of mine was an intern for the show, and she said they needed teen advisers, so that's how I got on the writing team. And after giving my opinion for a while Bryan just came up to me and asked me to read for a character.
What does an adviser do?
We would get scripts, and sometimes Bryan would write stuff. And I would say British teens may say this, but American teenagers wouldn't, and also explain certain situations. We'd have discussions about prom. What you do before and after. What are school field trips like. How the bus trip there is equally as important as the field trip itself.
Aren't the ratings going down?
For MTV, that was the highest ratings they've ever gotten on a Monday that wasn't a premiere, and our core demographic didn't go down at all. MTV is fully behind us.
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and if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you
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Whatever that is supposed to mean... SKINS is a great show, very real and with real teens who are good actors, not 26-year-olds. Anyone who watches it without a predetermined agenda will not be misled by the uninformed hysteria.
You're a prude that is out of touch with reality ML all claims are baseless.
One can only pray that when the big quake hits, and California falls into the sea, that it happens on the night of the MTV awards.
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eee, I so agree with you. This is a pathetic excuse for a show. MTV has sunken to an all time low. Of course, the young actors/actresses (and I use those terms lightly)are going to stick up for this garbage, this is their paycheck.
One can only pray that when the big quake hits, and California falls into the sea, that it happens on MTV awards night!
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She's 18 for crissakes... 18-yr-olds don't know anything about anything, they only think they do. When I was 18, you couldn't tell me anything either because, hey, I knew it ALL. Besides, she's a cast member on the show. Do you really expect her to say "Yeah it's child porn, don't watch it"???
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show's like this are what's wrong with the youth in the U.S.A. today!!!!!
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You're a prude that is out of touch with reality and doesn't know what there talking about. Today's youth is no bad then what it was 30 years ago.
Legal is not the same as moral. Something the sleezebags at MTV should learn to realize.
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You're a prude that clearly doesn't know what there talking about all claims which are lies and are baseless as well. Exoticeddoc2 all you want to do is shove morals & ethics down people's thraot which isn't right which you should realize idiot & moron and you're loser that needs to get a life.
gobluespartyon. Unless you can state a source for your own so-called morality your words are meaningless. All you have done is string together a slew of insults without any logic or reason applied. So tell me, by what grounds to you consider such trashy television to be right? To defend such rubbish really demonstrates a lack of intelligence and moral fiber on your part. Morals are not relative, and they are not subject to human opinion.
You're wrong as always Exoticdoc2 you don't know what you're talking about and everything you say is meanless and your showing lack of intelligence by shoving morals down peoples throats. I have morals I just don't go preaching it unlike like you Exoticdoc2. I have seen UK Skins so I knew what it was going to be when they said there would be US version of Skins which shows reality with some teens not every teen is having sex or doing drugs or drink either and I never did any of the stuff on Skins I knew right from wrong. And Skins isn't rubbish or trash. I'm Always Right.
gobluespartyon. I notice you dodged the question and simply hurled more insults. Someone might actually pay some serious attention if you could answer the question put to you. What is the source for your morality? How do you decide what is right and wrong? Until you can provide a valid answer to this, your words are meaningless babble. You are ALWAYS right? Wow, you are either a little kid or a seriously deluded adult. You really believe that any human being is always right? That has got to be the egomaniac statement of the year.
Nope I answer the question Exoticdoc you just don't like the answer. You clearly have a big ego. It isn't insulting it's telling it like it is which you don't get.
goblues. You provided NO source for your morality, and the claim you are always right is glaringly egotistical. Just going back and forth with you always replying "Uh-uh!" and hurling insults is not going to get anywhere until you learn how to think and write logically.
You're a spin doctor you can't think for yourself Exoticdoc2 and I think for myself and it is logical just like my writing which I write pretty good so your wrong with your logically thiniking and writing. You're wrong and I'm right.
Goblues. Is your marvelous mastery of the language you claim best demonstrated by your run-on sentences or your mispellings? Really, you would look at least a bit less foolish if you learned to engage in reasoned dialect rather than kindergarten level insults and prattle. And yes, I did notice that you have STILL failed to answer the question as to where you get your morality. Really, it is the heart of the matter, how do you decide what's right and wrong? It is bad enough you like kiddie porn and defend it, but the least you can do is supply the source of morality that says kiddie porn is okay.
Your the master of spin doctor exoticdoc2 I did answer the questions your the one with kindergarn insults nope I haven't done any missspelings your not the spelling police exoticdoc2 and skins isn't kiddie porn which is a lie you have no facts or proof to back it up. And your foolish.
While you people are here protesting, anyone of your kids might be out there doing the same things...Art imitates life in most cases....
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