‘I was always the bit of totty’: Emily Atack on tabloids, trolls and life after The Inbetweeners
The role of Charlotte ‘Big Jugs’ Hinchcliffe made her a star – then she spent years trying to get the respect and the roles she deserved. Now, at the age of 34, she’s been having the time of her life shooting Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. What changed?
Remember,” Emily Atack addresses herself, mock-solemnly, “this isn’t a therapy session. This isn’t a therapy session.” She’s fresh from a photoshoot and looks exactly like her character in the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals: lush, blown-out, long blond hair, huge features gleaming with gloss and sparkle, a fitted black suit straight out of the 80s, pointy shoes … “Can I take my shoes off?” Of course you can take your shoes off, I say. Of course I would like nothing more than for you to treat this like a therapy session.
Atack had a baby boy three months ago, and yesterday, she says, “I left my partner and Barney sleeping in the morning, day one of the promo, and it was so beautiful and calm, my beautiful baby and lovely partner, and I thought: ‘I don’t know if it gets much better than this.’”
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