How the British-French actress turned the culture shock of moving to Leeds at 17 into a star-making turn as wild child Emily Brontë
“The thing no one could have prepared me for,” says Emma Mackey, “was how much people drank.” Growing up in north-west France, Mackey – the breakout star of Netflix’s Sex Education – had always thought of England as a place of storybook wonder and enchantment. So, when she was 17, she moved to Leeds. “I’d seen nothing like it. I was a very naive French girl in this huge northern city in the era of chokers and house music – and was like, ‘Oh my god, you all get drunk four times a week. How do you get up in [ . . . ]
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