The untold truth of Emma Mackey

It’s very easy for you to misidentify Emma Mackey as Margot Robbie. Emma bears a striking resemblance to the famous Australian actor. In case you were wondering, they are not related in any way.

Margot has already made a name for herself as an actress, and Emma is not far behind. Emma’s journey into the world of acting has been relatively short, but she is already proving that she belongs to the elite of actors like Robbie.

Emma is famous for her role on the show. Sex education. Read on to find out more about her.

Emma’s move to Leeds forced her to toughen up

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Emma Mackey was born on January 4, 1996 in Le Mans, France, to a British mother and a French father. Her mother was a charity worker while her father was a director. Emma’s parents sent her to a Catholic school and she obtained her baccalaureate in Nantes.

Subsequently, he moved to the UK and joined the University of Leeds to study drama. In the UK, she was exposed to different types of people from different parts of the world. It was a culture shock, but she was happy to be in the UK. She said The Road Less Traveled Podcast;

“…I had to be there. But it was definitely a culture shock, going to a big industrial city in the north and being surrounded by a lot of people my age from all over the world was great, it was so good.”

Emma also realized that she had to toughen up in her new surroundings. She discovered that life in the urban UK was not the same as life in the rural French environment in which she grew up. Mackey spoke with Cosmopolitan;

“It was very… nice, I went to a Catholic school and did a lot of sports and I was very happy. I loved studying and was very studious. It was a pretty sheltered existence. I had to toughen up a bit [after moving to Leeds]. People made me realize that I was quite innocent and unaware of certain things. I wanted people to like me.”

She worked as a model before making the leap into acting.

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Shortly after arriving in the UK, Emma began working as a model. Some time later, hers Emma got her first on-screen role of hers in the horror TV movie. badger line. The Shay Nicole-directed film won Best Motion Picture Drama at the National Student Television Association Awards in 2016.

Mackey then landed a role in the 2018 film. summit fever. Later that year, she was cast to play the lead role of Maeve Wiley in the Netflix series, Sex education. She is ready to appear in the movies. death on the nileand winter lake.

The sex scenes in Sex education made her skeptical about accepting the role

Emma’s role as Maeve Wiley in Sex education it is his biggest role to date. The show has been praised for how it tackles issues like sexuality and feminism. It has also been praised for its impressive cast, and this includes Emma Mackey. Emma’s character Maeve is a mean girl and social outcast who manages to convince Otis (Asa Butterfield) to open a sex therapy clinic.

Otis is very sexually knowledgeable, but struggles with sexual issues such as masturbation. He also has a huge crush on Maeve. Mackey is exceptional on the show, but almost passed up on the chance to play Maeve. She said The Road Less Traveled Podcast;

“When I first read the script, I thought, ‘I don’t know if I can do this.’ Anyway, I never thought I was going to get the part in the first place. I was like ‘you could give it a try,’ but reading the script, I was so shocked… I was pretty sanctimonious about it anyway.”

She had an intimacy coordinator to help her with the sex scenes.

Emma eventually accepted the role, and the entire cast received training on how to coordinate the sex scenes. The privacy coordinator, Ita O’Brien, was very helpful. Emma declared in The Road Less Traveled Podcast;

“Luckily, they took very good care of us from start to finish, even before we started filming, Ita O’Brien, who is the intimacy coordinator, gave us all these tools… They gave us all these tools like physical consent and he choreographed it quite significantly.”

It got to a point where the show’s movements became as natural as the lines. The endless rehearsal took the awkwardness out and made everything pretty easy. emma said FUNNY;

“We talk it over, we take it out, we practice it like a dance. And when we got down to work, it wasn’t awkward at all… We rehearsed the movements as if they were lines. Like when you rehearse the lines so much that they become natural. The same with the movement, the same with the trick”.

Emma made a playlist to help her get into character as Maeve.

Emma is a lover of good music and used a special playlist to help her get into character. The songs must have helped because Emma is brilliant on the show. She said EN magazine;

“As time went by, I became more and more confident with my creative input. I also made a playlist of all the music he likes and I have it on my phone. A Maeve Wiley playlist.

She loves the feminist message portrayed in Sex education

Sex education primarily addresses sexuality among young people, but also places a strong emphasis on female empowerment. Each female character has a narrative that exists independently. Emma explained in an interview with FUNNY;

“And I love the fact that it’s written by women and you have these incredibly strong female characters at the helm… Each female character can have her own story and you wouldn’t get bored. They are not satellites around the male characters, which I love. Is the best. They own their own narrative and do their own thing.”

Emma also believes that the sexual liberation depicted on the show is important in real life.

She is in a relationship with actor Dan Whitlam.

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It’s unclear when the couple started dating, but Emma posted the first photo of Dan to Instagram in January 2018. Since then, she’s become a regular on Mackey’s Instagram page. On February 14, Emma posted an intimate photo of the couple with the caption;

“The fact that the ceiling is made entirely of flowers definitely outweighs the fact that this was taken in the bathroom, right? Great, yeah, that’s what I thought. Happy Valentine’s Day mon amour”.

The couple appears together a lot and were recently seen in the Cannes Film Festival Series. Mackey attended the festival as a member of the jury and accompanied Dan.

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