Emma Mackey on Starring in ‘Haunting’ Mother-Daughter Drama ‘Hot Milk’ and Vicky Krieps Playing Her Love Interest: ‘She’s Really a Force’

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Ellise Shafer When Emma Mackey met Vicky Krieps, she couldn’t help but blush. The two actors play love interests Sofia and Ingrid in “Hot Milk,” Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s feature directorial debut that premieres at Berlin Film Festival on Friday, and the first scene they shot together also marked the first time they’d truly interacted. “I didn’t get to meet her before we started shooting, and I remember the first scene we shot was on the beach.

It’s the first time Sofia sees Ingrid, and Vicky looked at me and I blushed,” Mackey tells Variety. “And that just tells you — I was like, ‘Wow, how did she do that?'” Based on Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel of the same name, “Hot Milk” follows a daughter and mother — played by Mackey and Fiona Shaw, respectively — who “wrestle with co-dependency and desire by the Spanish seaside,” according to the synopsis. “Yearning for freedom, the daughter falls into a passionate affair.

But is this the liberation she needs, or an even more destructive trap?” It marks Mackey’s follow-up feature to 2023’s box office blockbuster “Barbie,” in which she was part of the ensemble cast as Physicist Barbie.

Before that, the British-French star played the rebellious yet intelligent Maeve for four seasons on Netflix’s critically acclaimed “Sex Education” in her first major role.