This actress lived the role of sex slave before playing it on film

AN actress playing a woman who was kidnapped and turned into a sex slave in a new flick says she knows the role all too well.

AN actress playing a woman who was kidnapped and turned into a sex slave in a new award-winning flick says she knows the role all too well — because she’s the real-life inspiration for it.

Frida Farrell says even her own dad didn’t know she was playing herself in Selling Isobel until the movie’s premiere. She says only the film’s director was aware of the fact during shooting.

As for the cast and crew, “some of them I haven’t told yet,” she admitted to The Times of London.

Farrell was lured into a fiend’s clutches in London in 2002 with the promise of a modelling gig for the motorcycle company Harley Davidson.

The film brought her back to the pivotal moment that she entered the fifth-floor apartment for a supposed photo shoot, when her world suddenly turned into a nightmare and she was forced to pose for pornographic photos and have sex with random men.

“Sometimes I lie in bed and I think, ‘Why, why, why were you so stupid?” Farrell told the British newspaper. “I still blame myself because I still had a choice there.”

She met the creep, who only gave his first name of Peter, on the street in London, where he told her he was casting for an upcoming modelling gig and that she fit the bill.

Farrell said she wasn’t suspicious: “It happened to me in Paris, in Milan, in New York. It happened everywhere,” she said.

Frida Farrell. Picture: Araya Diaz/FilmMagic

But she didn’t say yes until she did some research, looking up the site he had on his business card and asking her boyfriend if he thought it was legitimate.

Everything checked out, and she went to the apartment for a sample shoot.

“There was a backdrop. There was fruit. There was coffee, tea and snacks. There was even an assistant, a girl who was helping out with lights,” she recalled.

She got a call back, saying the client loved her shots and they wanted some more.

But the second time she arrived at the apartment, the vibe was much different — with Peter immediately locking her inside and threatening her with a knife.

“[It was] almost as if to say, ‘Don’t do anything or I will use it,’” she said.

The next three days were a blur, partially because she was drugged. She was forced to wear used underwear, pose for porn, perform oral sex on her captor and have sex with five random men.

Some of these horrifying memories are included in her new flick.

“There’s a lot of rapes, unfortunately,” she said, adding that acting in the movie was therapeutic.

She finally was able to escape from the house of horrors when Peter forgot to lock the door and she ran away.

“I didn’t stop,” Farrell said, adding that she ran all the way to a friend’s house who cared for her and didn’t ask too many questions.

Selling Isobel has won the Raindance Film Festival’s Indie Award.

This article was originally published on The New York Post