Emmerdale's Roxy Shahidi explains Leyla Cavanagh scene she changed
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Emmerdale star Roxy Shahidi has opened up on the soap scene she asked be rewritten.
The actress, who has been playing Leyla Cavanagh on the ITV series since 2008, explained she didn't feel comfortable appearing in her underwear for a storyline. She raised the issue with producers and they worked together to tweak the scene.
"Everyone's got their own body issues, haven't they? So, they're [producers] fantastic like that," Shahidi said during an appearance on Steph's Packed Lunch today (March 16).
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"For example, I was written in in an underwear scene where I shimmied into a doctor's surgery and dropped my coat in bra and knickers and I said, 'No, I'm not doing that,'" she revealed.
"And so, I ended up in a nice knee-length dress from Reiss, but I did a really good shimmy, a little dance, and I think it was funnier because for me personally, I felt comfortable delivering that scene, and also people don't want to see my bra and knickers when they're having their tea."
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Shahidi also said how she'd want her character to exit, should the time come.
"You go in taxi, you come back in a taxi. So, you want the taxi really because it leaves that door fluid," she said.
"You don't want to die; it'd be too sad to die. You've known that character for years and years and years and you've invested so much. I couldn't do it, I'd weep."
Emmerdale airs on weeknights at 7.30pm on ITV1, and streams on ITVX.
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