Summary
FREYA MAVOR looks like she was born to play the role of the aloof popular girl on everyone's favourite debauched teen drama, Skins. Tall, blonde and beautiful, the 17-year-old Edinburgh schoolgirl (she is in her final year at Mary Erskine) plays Mini McGuinness in season five, the token bad girl who rubs everyone up the wrong way, but still comes out on top. Only she's quick to assure me that in reality she couldn't be more different to her on-screen character
We meet at the Caves in Edinburgh where Mavor is hosting a "Skins Party" (shorthand for the kind of out-of-control gathering held while the parents are away where anything and everything goes) and she's sporting all the trademarks of a Skins cast member. There's the bouncy confidence, the typically teenage rising inflection and the nonchalant dress sense; today she's wearing a furry leopard- print coat with tights, green hi-tops and piles of mismatched gold jewellery.See the full content of this document
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Teen Dream
Her sense of style, however, is where the similarities to the manipulative Mini end. She is convivial and polite, but admits to having thrown a few "Skins parties" in the past. "It was ridiculous," she says with a giggle. "My parents would only be going out to the cinema for a few hours, but I'd get everyone in then try to get everything cleared before they come back. But it would never work. Som...
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