PART of playing an awful character brilliantly means some people struggle to differentiate between the real world and soapland.
Just ask Emmerdale actress Louisa Clein, whose portrayal of child groomer Maya Stepney has led to her getting grief from strangers even when she is out shopping with her young son.
In the soap her baddie character had an illegal relationship with 15-year-old Jacob Gallagher, played by Joe-Warren Plant. Louisa revealed: “I did have a situation where I was with my little son, who was two. "I was in a shop and someone came up to me and went, ‘You are such a bitch’. “I was like, ‘You know it’s not real?
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