'Billie Piper lesbian scenes in Love Life not sexual'

Kaya Scodelario has insisted that there is nothing provocative about her role in Love Life.

The Wuthering Heights star will play Karen, the love interest of teacher Holly (Billie Piper) in the semi-improvised BBC serial.

"[Each episode is] half an hour long, for five nights on the BBC," the actress told Digital Spy. "It's [about] different situations of love [and] that's why I wanted to do it."

She continued: "It's very hard to get two female actors, put them together in a... relationship and not make it about sex."[This story] was more about the connection that they share as women [and] the points that they're at in their lives."

Scodelario also admitted that she had been a fan of Billie Piper's music as a child.

"The first album that I ever bought was hers," she revealed. "But I didn't tell her that, because I thought it might put her off a little bit!"

Love Life - which also stars David Tennant, Jane Horrocks, Ashley Walters, David Morrissey, Vicky McClure and Lacey Turner - explores five overlapping love stories set in the same town.