Ambika Mod wishes she could delete her social media pages
The 30-year-old actress was targeted by trolls after being cast as Emma Morley in the hit Netflix series One Day and admits that she would "get rid" of the platforms if she had the chance
31 October 2025
Speaking to PORTER, Ambika said: "After One Day, I had a terrible experience online. Someday I'd love to get rid of it altogether.
"It's just not healthy to absorb everyone's opinions about you."
The star will now play a female academic who is addicted to pornography in a new London theatre production and is looking to move on from One Day, which was critically acclaimed when it aired on the streaming service last year.
Mod said: "As time goes on, especially now I'm doing more theatre, I'm ready to leave Emma behind."
Ambika also spoke about how she feels more pressure as a woman of a colour in the industry as she thinks she has less margin for error than other performers.
The This Is Going to Hurt star, whose parents are Indian, said: "As a Brown woman, you're held to a higher standard. There's less room to make mistakes. Sometimes it feels like you only have one chance, and if you mess up, you're gone."
Ambika previously lamented how "brown women have to work 10 times harder" to land parts as she reflected on how she and One Day co-star Leo Woodall were "treated differently" after the show.
She told The Sunday Times newspaper: "We just don't get treated the same at all.
"This is nothing I've not said to Leo's face, by the way... Obviously it's not personal. It's just the industry and the way our society works.
"If you're brown, if you're a woman, if you don't have any connections, you do just have to work 10 times harder to get half as far. That's sadly a reality of it."
Ambika also suggested that she wouldn't have landed the role of Emma - who was played by Anne Hathaway in the 2011 adaptation of David Nicholls' novel - a decade ago.
She explained: "I'm very different to Anne Hathaway, so I was never worried about that. Just the fact that I'm not white and I'm getting to play Emma.
"I don't think that would have happened 10 years ago. That in itself is a way to modernise the story."
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