Emily Atack has revealed how she once got drop from a film after ignoring the advances of an ‘inappropriate’ film boss
(Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)Emily Atack has recalled how she was once dropped from a movie role without warning after ignoring the advances of an “inappropriate” film boss.
The Inbetweeners star, 32, made the admission in her book Are We There Yet? To Indignity . . . and Beyond!
Setting the scene, she told how a man had said a string of "really inappropriate things" to her on set and he then continued to hound her via texts to her phone.
Deciding that the best course of action was to give him the “cold shoulder” in the hope that he would take the hint, she instead found herself out of a job.
She wrote: "The shoot ended and, a fortnight later, all over the press were pictures of another actress in my role.
"I never received an explanation about why I’d been dropped; just one minute I’m doing it and I’m all excited to go, and the next thing I know there’s another actress doing it. Sometimes stuff like that happens, it just wasn’t meant to be."
The Celebrity Juice team captain said she might have handled the situation differently if it were to happen to her now.
She added: "I’d like to think that now I would call someone out on such behaviour. Perhaps I would try a polite but firm, ‘Don’t say that to me, please.’ Rightly or wrongly, I always thought about all the other people involved if you did speak up.
"It’s hard if they’re married with children, which they quite often are, because you think, ‘I can’t ruin this family. It’s gonna destroy those kids’ lives if they hear this about their dad.’
"Or the wife would be devastated. They may be a complete creep but I will hurt a whole load of innocent people if I say something. That’s my personal thing. A lot of people won’t agree with me on that and I completely understand.”
She added: "One less creep at work is another one we have beaten, no matter how minor their actions."
Recently, the actress said she is often sent unsolicited graphic videos by men on social media.
She told The Sun On Sunday: “They knew where I lived, said what they were going to do to me, even my family. I got the police involved.”
Atack said there is one man who creates new accounts every time she blocks him.
She told the paper: “He’s relentless and disgusting - beyond anything you can imagine. Yet he says he’s a married man with children. He sends rape threats, says what he wants to do to me while his wife is in the room, and sends messages saying his children are downstairs in their playroom while he’s pleasuring himself over me.
“These men are exposing themselves to me, doing this, in a more private way, in my direct messages, where I can’t avoid it. It feels shameful. It has made me question my entire existence at times, and how men see me.”
