Sadie Frost on Pulp’s Common People, Dracula & the Primrose Hill Set

<p>She was 16, naked and sprayed gold in the Spandau Ballet video. A decade later she was pushing the trolley in Common People.</p><p>Sadie Frost has been at the centre of British popular culture since 1983. She was in the two music videos that define the 80s and the 90s, she flew to Hollywood eight months after giving birth to audition for Francis Ford Coppola, and she spent a decade as the most photographed woman in north London. </p><p>She is now a documentary director making a film about Quadrophenia with Pete Townshend.</p><p>She talks to Martin Deeson about Gary Kemp, Kate Moss, Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, Jude Law, Jarvis Cocker, Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels, and about growing up in Primrose Hill long before anybody called it a set.</p><ul><li>Why she was more nervous filming Common People than she was on set with Coppola, and the reason she couldn&#39;t work out how to push a supermarket trolley</li><li>The truth about the Primrose Hill set, from someone who was actually born there, went to the local primary school, and watched the tabloids invent a narrative around a group of twentysomethings</li><li>What happens after the crazy days. She gets up at quarter to five, goes to bed at nine, teaches yoga for free at the local community centre, and says something genuinely surprising about whether she ever enjoyed the partying in the first place</li></ul><p>Also: the borrowed dress and the stuffed bra that got her the part in Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula, being told at 23 that she was too old to act, the muntjac deer she put in her car, and why she is still waiting to hear back from Sting.</p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><ul><li>00:00 Trailer</li><li>01:07 Crazy Days</li><li>02:16 A sick child and a psychedelic father</li><li>09:01 Spandau Ballet, Gold, and meeting Gary Kemp</li><li>12:46 The call from Francis Ford Coppola</li><li>16:07 Common People and the Pulp video</li><li>19:10 The Primrose Hill set</li><li>23:12 Meeting Kate Moss</li><li>24:38 Getting sober, and never really liking the party</li><li>28:23 Yoga</li><li>33:00 Becoming a director: Quant and Twiggy</li><li>35:47 Quadrophenia, Pete Townshend and Sting</li><li>40:15 The deer in the car</li><li>41:11 Raising three sons</li><li>45:47 Rescue</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Links &amp; Mentions:</strong></p><p><strong>Unloaded Podcast:</strong></p><ul><li>Apple: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/martin-deeson-unloaded/id1885169674" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/martin-deeson-unloaded/id1885169674</a></li></ul><ul><li>Youtube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@MartinDeesonUnloaded" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/@MartinDeesonUnloaded</a></li><li>X: <a href="https://x.com/martindeeson" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/martindeeson</a></li><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/martindeeson/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/martindeeson/</a></li><li>Tiktok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@martindeeson" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.tiktok.com/@martindeeson</a></li><li>Website: <a href="https://www.unloadedpodcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.unloadedpodcast.com/</a><strong></strong></li></ul><p><strong>Sadie frost:</strong></p><ul><li>Sadie Frost on Instagram - <a href="http://instagram.com/sadiefrost" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">instagram.com/sadiefrost</a></li></ul><ul><li>RESCUE (documentary, exec produced by Sadie) - <a href="http://rescuefilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">rescuefilm.com</a></li></ul><p><br></p>