Ambika Mod says she wants to permanently delete her social media platforms after receiving a torrent of abuse for her starring role in One Day.
Taking centre stage in a glamorous new photoshoot for PORTER, the actress models a stunning nude dress as well as green and black gowns while reflecting on fame and the toll it has taken as a result of unwanted attention.
Ambika, 30, became something of a household name as Emma Morley in the Netflix show – but her casting as the female lead was met with disdain from online trolls who criticised the choice.
She said: ‘After One Day, I had a terrible experience online. Someday I’d love to get rid of it altogether.
‘It’s just not healthy to absorb everyone’s opinions about you.’
Now the actress is moving on from the hugely popular series to play a porn addict in a new stage show at Britain’s most ‘experimental’ publicly funded theatre.
Ambika Mod has said she wants to permanently delete social media after the torrent of abuse she received after filming One Day. In a glamorous photoshoot for Net-A-Porter she wore posed in a stunning nude dress
The 30-year-old had her breakout role in the Netflix show – but her casting as the female lead was met with disdain from online trolls who criticised the choice
On letting go of One Day, she added: ‘As time goes on, especially now I’m doing more theatre, I’m ready to leave Emma behind.’
The Royal Court has announced that they will be staging Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play, which focuses on a female academic who is addicted to pornography, and also tackles the taboo topic of female masturbation.
The This is Going to Hurt star also spoke of the challenges of being a woman of colour in the industry.
She said: ‘As a Brown woman, you’re held to a higher standard. There’s less room to make mistakes. Sometimes it feels like you only have one chance, and if you mess up, you’re gone.’
She previously said ‘brown women have to work ten times harder’ to win roles as she claimed that One Day co-star Leo Woodall ‘was treated differently’ after the show.
The pair starred as lovers in the hit Netflix show – but in the months that followed many of her fans pointed out the differences between her and Woodall’s career trajectories.
After One Day Leo notable landed a role in Tony, A24’s Anthony Bourdain biopic.
Ambika subsequently said in an interview: ‘We just don’t get treated the same at all.’, something which she reiterated in an interview with The Sunday Times.
Now the actress is moving on from the hugely popular series to play a porn addict in a new stage show at Britain’s most ‘experimental’ publicly funded theatre
The pair starred as lovers in the hit Netflix show – but in the months that followed many of her fans pointed out the differences between her and lLeo Woodall’s career trajectories (right)
The This is Going to Hurt star also spoke of the challenges of being a woman of colour in the industry
‘This is nothing I’ve not said to Leo’s face, by the way… Obviously it’s not personal. It’s just the industry and the way that our society works.
‘If you’re brown, if you’re a woman, if you don’t have any connections, you do just have to work ten times harder to get half as far. That’s sadly a reality of it.’
One Day, which was based on the novel of the same name by David Nicholls, follows the story of Emma and Dexter after meeting on the final night at Edinburgh University and the next 20 years of their lives on the same date, July 15.
The Daily Mail revealed Ambika originally turned down the role of Emma Morley after the star explained she found it was a ‘massive, massive undertaking’ given Emma was previously played by Anne Hathaway, 41, in the 2011 adaptation.
She said: ‘It was definitely originally written as white and previously played by a white actress. I’m really excited to bring something new to the role, I hope that young women who don’t see themselves on screen that often see that it’s possible.
Ambika admitted she wouldn’t have landed the role 10 years ago due to her skin colour, saying: ‘I’m very different to Anne Hathaway, so I was never worried about that. Just the fact that I’m not white and I’m getting to play Emma.
‘I don’t think that would have happened ten years ago. That in itself is a way to modernise the story.’
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She previously said ‘brown women have to work ten times harder’ to win roles as she claimed that One Day co-star Leo Woodall ‘was treated differently’ after the show
