Emily Atack says stripping for Rivals and playing naked tennis ‘was liberating’ as she joins ‘horniest new TV series’

EMILY Atack has lifted the lid connected her relation successful racy caller amusement Rivals and admitted she recovered stripping bare "liberating".

The actress, 34, is among the formed of the raunchy Disney+ bid and fans are already going wild for it.

Rivals is an adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1988 novel and follows a radical of characters arsenic they vie for business and each other's affections successful the chopped pharynx satellite of autarkic television.

Emily plays the Deputy Prime Minister, Sarah Stratton, and tin beryllium seen playing bare tennis with gigolo Tory MP Rupert Campbell-Black, played by Alex Hassell.

But the histrion is not fazed by getting bare successful beforehand of the cameras, arsenic it is each portion of the job.

Speaking to Sky News astir getting bare for her Rivals debut, Emily said: "It's truthful liberating.

"Of people determination are going to beryllium radical retired determination that instrumentality what you bash and effort and rotation a antagonistic communicative connected it. I'm a woman, of people radical are going to bash that.

"But what I person to support stressing to radical is I'm precisely wherever I request to be. I'm astatine work, I'm playing a role, I'm precise comfy and I'm connected a closed set.

"We person intimacy coordinators, I get connected precise good with my director, the crew, the actors and I'm precise blessed and comfortable.

"It's different people's characters that request to beryllium looked astatine if they're going to twist it into immoderate grotesque negativity."

Emily roseate to fame playing Charlotte 'Big Jugs' successful Channel 4's The Inbetweeners.

Although she welcomed the relation with unfastened arms, Emily did find herself being stereotyped into "totty" roles successful the years that followed.

Emily besides recovered herself being booked for lads' mags photoshoots, which successful hindsight she has mixed feelings about.

"I was celebrating my younker and my sexuality successful beauteous locations, wearing gorgeous underwear... and I f***ing loved it," Emily antecedently told The Guardian.

"It was great. I naively didn’t deliberation what communicative was being painted for me."

Emily has since been praised by fans for being a ‘strong pistillate relation model’ for slamming online trolls and hitting backmost astatine the misogyny successful her industry.

The prima is besides present a mum-of-one aft welcoming lad Barney with boyfriend Alistair Garner successful June.

Rivals is Emily's archetypal large occupation connected the tiny surface since becoming a genitor and she's successful bully company.

The bid stars a big of British TV favourites, including erstwhile EastEnders prima Danny Dyer, Doctor Who's David Tennant, and Skins heartthrob Luke Pasqualino.

Dame Jilly Cooper is known for her kinky books and, though determination is simply a batch of saucy scenes, body-confident Emily has defended their purpose.

"We support saying that the nudity and the enactment scenes are a immense portion of this but there's ever a crushed for them," she said.

"We're not conscionable getting our kit disconnected for nary reason. They're precise integral to the storylines and characters."