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Ambika Mod is not prepared to be a footnote in 2024. After hustling through improv and a breakout turn in BBC miniseries This Is Going to Hurt, this year saw her biggest hit yet — the lead role of Emma Morley in Netflix’s adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel One Day. Paired with Leo Woodall’s Dexter Mayhew, Mod sensitively plays Emma’s loves, wins and failures over 20 years. As a twenty-something figuring out her place in the world, Mod’s own journey has overlapped with Emma’s more than once. Here, she talks about growing up, growing old and wishing people would focus less on her race.
DEADLINE: How has life been since the release of One Day?
AMBIKA MOD: It’s really mad, to be honest. I had an idea it would be big because it was on Netflix, but I didn’t think people would connect to it the way they are. I don’t want to sound self-important, but the goal is for people to respond to your work, and I’m glad people think we’ve done justice to the book.
I’ve also been learning to set boundaries lately. With a show like One Day where people are so emotionally invested, as an actor sometimes people assume they have a bit of you. There are certain times people ask for photos and I do say no. No one really teaches you this stuff, and it’s personal to everyone, but yes, I’ve been figuring out the public-facing side of it.
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DEADLINE: How has being a person of color in a story that previously portrayed white characters impacted you?
MOD: The color of my skin has been a massive part of the discourse when I was doing press for this show. [Prejudice] can be such a subtle but insidious double-edged sword that
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