India, Aug. 22 -- In Rebecca Lenkiewicz's directorial debut, Hot Milk, Emma Mackey is a far cry from the rebellious Maeve Wiley in Netflix's Sex Education, which became her breakthrough role. Here, as Sofia, she is more subdued and elusive, and we are never quite sure what's going on in her mind. In an exclusive interaction with HT right after its Berlin premiere earlier this year, Emma opened up about the experience of taking on the role and the journey of making the film.

Emma says that she saw the film for the second time at the Berlin Film Festival, where it played in Competition. "It was different to my first experience. Seeing it at the film festival with a full room of people is very different to just seeing it in a screening room...