Emily Atack strips completely naked in the new Disney+ series of Jilly Cooper’s ‘bonkbuster’ Rivals.
The actress, 34, who plays the deputy prime minister’s wife Sarah Stratton, said she found the scenes “very liberating”.
It’s a pivotal moment for Emily, who admitted she “naively didn’t think about what narrative was being painted for me” when she rose to fame as Charlotte “Big Jugs” Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners 16 years ago.
Her life-changing role meant she was instantly recognized and booked for many racy photoshoots in lads’ magazines.
However, Emily was also affected by the dark side of fame, where she became a victim of sexual harassment and online shaming.
Emily Atack strips completely naked in the new Disney+ series of Jilly Cooper’s ‘bonkbuster’ Rivals. The actress, 34, who plays Sarah Stratton, said she found the scenes “very liberating.”
It’s a pivotal moment for Emily, who admitted she “naively didn’t think what narrative was being painted for me” when she rose to fame as Charlotte “Big Jugs” in The Inbetweeners.
In Rivals, the actress strips naked to play tennis with Alex Hassell’s character, Rupert Campbell Black, who is also naked.
In Rivals, the actress strips naked to play tennis with Alex Hassell’s character, Rupert Campbell Black, who is also naked.
Of the racy scenes, Emily told Sky News: “It’s very liberating and of course there will be people who will take what you do and try to give it a negative narrative.” I’m a woman, of course people are going to do that.
‘But what I have to keep doing is emphasizing to people that I am exactly where I need to be, I am at work. “I’m playing a role and I’m very comfortable.”
Emily added that there was an intimacy coordinator on set.
‘As soon as I read it, I had the same feeling I had when I first auditioned for Charlotte from The Inbetweeners; the same little quiver in my stomach of “OMG, this is perfect for me,” he said The radio times.
Promoting the series, the TV favorite spoke openly about her rise to fame on The Inbetweeners and how it shaped her career.
she said the guardian: ‘I was a very vulnerable teenager, but there was an air of naive confidence about me. I thought, “I need this job, I need to pay the rent.” And from there my life changed forever.”
As The Inbetweeners became a huge success, Emily soon found herself booked for magazine photo shoots.
Rivals is based on Jilly’s 1988 novel and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986.
As The Inbetweeners became a huge success, Emily soon found herself booked for lads’ magazine shoots, but “naively I didn’t think about what narrative was being painted for me.”
Rivals focuses on the tense rivalry between Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant).
The long-awaited new Disney+ series, hailed as ‘bonkbuster’, already has an average of 93% on the Tomatometer
She said: ‘This is where I get confused. And then I was confused,” Emily admitted. “They told me, ‘You have a photo shoot today,’ and that it would be for Loaded magazine or FHM… So I said, ‘Yeah, no clothes on and a bikini. Whatever.’ “. I honestly didn’t have a problem with it – I enjoyed those shots.
‘I was celebrating my youth and my sexuality in beautiful places, wearing beautiful underwear… and I loved it. It was great. I naively didn’t think what narrative was being painted for me.’
Unfortunately, she soon became the target of a torrent of online abuse that included fat shaming and cyber-flashing.
But for those who suggested the actress should have seen it coming, Emily insisted she wasn’t being shown in an “overtly sexual way” and was simply promoting her work.
After The Inbetweeners, 13 films followed (including Get Lucky and Outside Bet), where Emily played similar ‘totty’ roles.
Although primarily British films often promise to chart a Hollywood course for the actress, Emily recalled how a brutal meeting in Los Angeles ended with her being told she had to become a UK size six to be considered for any future role.
She said: ‘Suddenly my weight became real. And since then, my weight has always been an important factor.’
But in 2018 her career improved significantly once again after appearing on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and won second place behind Harry Redknapp: a television comedy series called The Emily Atack Show, which was followed by a one-woman stand-up show.
Emily welcomed her first child, Barney, in June with her boyfriend Alistair Garner.
However, the actress revealed that she still had to deal with trolls and critics who claimed that women couldn’t be funny.
Following her experiences, Emily, who welcomed her first child, Barney, in June with boyfriend Alistair Garner, is now “really adamant that there’s a huge problem here: misogyny isn’t going anywhere.”
However, that won’t stop the mother of one from “taking off the gear” anytime soon; The actress recently insisted that playing a promiscuous role does not undermine her campaign to end violence against women.
The actress told The Radio Times: ‘You can’t win no matter what you do. If you stay dressed you are a frigid nun, if you take off your clothes you are a whore.
“But I love my job and if the role I’m playing requires nudity and it’s an integral part of the story and I’m safe, I’m exactly where I should be. The entire cast was warned from the beginning that there would be nudity and sex scenes, so what you knew you were getting into.
‘These types of roles are fun. I’m still young and it’s okay to feel liberated. I enjoy what I do. And it’s Jilly Cooper; It is an honor to do so.”
Rivals is based on Jilly’s 1988 novel and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986.
It centers on the tense rivalry between Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant) and stars Emily as Sarah Stratton, who is described as ambitious and unafraid to use her looks to get to the top. .
According to Disney+, Rivals is a “happy and mischievous roller coaster, exciting in its love stories and full of giant characters.”
The streaming service goes on to say that it brings a “2020s lens to the ’80s,” offering a “raw exploration of a complicated moment in British history when class, race, sex, wealth and sexual liberation “They meant that, for a privileged few, there were no limits to what they could achieve.”
Rival fans have said they are “already obsessed” with the show, as it debuted on Disney+ on Friday.
The highly anticipated new Disney+ series, which has been hailed as a ‘bonkbuster’, already has an average of 93% on the Tomatometer, based on enthusiastic initial reviews from fourteen critics.
