Emma Atkins felt "honoured" to play a role in Emmerdale's International Women's Day episode.
Emma Atkins
The 43-year-old actress will appear in tonight's (08.03.19) special, which will feature an all-female cast and has been filmed by an all-female crew, to mark today's celebration, and she found it "interesting" to see all of the women on the cast and crew working together.
Emma - who plays Charity Dingle on the ITV soap - said: "Charity is on a mission in this episode, and although I can't give anything away about her scenes, they will have a significant impact going forward.
"I really enjoyed filming these scenes as they were beautifully written and I was honoured to play a role in this episode.
"We work with a fabulous team, day in and day out, on 'Emmerdale' so it was interesting they pooled all the female crew and cast into one team."
The special episode will follow almost every female 'Emmerdale' character as their individual stories play out, and Lucy Pargeter (Chas Dingle) loved working alongside Charlotte Bellamy (Laurel Thomas), because the pair's characters don't usually "make time for each other".
She said: "The episode essentially deals with female stories across different ages from little April upwards.
"My character Chas bonds with Laurel over some news she has, they are not two characters who normally make time for each other so it was lovely working with Charlotte."
Charlotte added: "We have a fantastic and inclusive team at Emmerdale and this episode hopefully will be a great opportunity for us to showcase some of the positions available behind the scenes to both men and women within the television industry.
"We have a fantastic cast on the show, but it was lovely to have an episode that concentrated only on the female characters."
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