Hello everyone,
I hope you’re all well and enjoying the milder weather we’ve been having!! I for one have absolutely loved it and am now so desperate for the summer to arrive after such a long winter. This year has seemed particularly dark as I’ve been filming the very complex Emmerdale storyline I’ve hinted about in my past posts, which by now some of you may be aware centres around the sexual assault of my character Alicia by 14-year-old Lachlan White (played by Thomas Atkinson). Previously I’ve been unable to speak about the topic and the complexities of the story due to it’s very sensitive nature however now that the episodes have been aired I can discuss in more detail how challenging it both has been and still is. I’ve said in numerous interviews recently how shocked I was when our producer Kate first told me about the storyline, as I thought it was such a sensitive issue to cover and with Emmerdale being aired pre-watershed I was aware that there may be some difficulty with certain scenes, however I completely trusted the team at Emmerdale and felt that it was incredibly brave of them to cover it, as I’m aware that socially something seems to be bubbling with regards to the impact of the internet on young people. I was also incredibly flattered that they felt our family could handle such a powerful story and was determined to rise to the challenge of telling it in the most truthful way we could. Kate first discussed the story with me last summer and so I had plenty of time to do as much research as I could before we began filming the bulk of it this winter.
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