Emily Atack
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Podcast Appearances
And then I'd go home back to my flat in Bedfordshire and have all my mates over and then we'd all watch it on the telly.
But I was very safe in my real life.
I've just managed to always keep that really separate.
So it was always quite jarring when...
when I did see all these things out there, when social media started to really become a thing and people were writing about me in all these kinds of ways and I started getting all these kind of crazy messages of old men and people saying things to me in the street, I really did well to cotton wool myself from that when I wasn't in it.
So, and yeah, and I think that separation is kind of what saved me going mad really with it.
So yeah, it was always, it was confusing because I just didn't,
I didn't see myself in that way.
I remember, like, all the pictures of me in the in-betweeners.
It was just... It was me in a school uniform.
But people go, oh, yeah, the sexy schoolgirl uniform.
I'm like, no, no, it's not... It's not fancy dress meant to be sexy.
I'm just a schoolgirl playing a schoolgirl.
I hadn't long left school when I started the in-betweeners.
So...
I was just wearing a school uniform, so I genuinely, innocently didn't understand the sexual crassness that was linked to it.
I really didn't.
It was about the four boys entering their teenage years, trying to get off with girls.
That was the premise of the show.
And I know that, you know, it's peppered with the fit girl at school.