The 25-year-old actress has been hinting about bidding adieu to her badass character that everyone fell in love with.
The third season of Sex Education is now streaming on Netflix and people just can't stop talking about it. People are already anticipating the next season even as others are wrapping their heads around the latest one. As for the Maeve Wiley fans, there may not be a new season to look forward to if Emma Mackey decides to leave the show. The 25-year-old actress has been hinting as such that it is time to bid adieu to her badass character that everyone fell in love with. She has been with the show since 2019 and could this be the last time we see her as Maeve?
Mackey recently spoke to Hunger about the impact her strong character had on the audiences of the show. The role even helped her get her first Bafta nomination. “It’s a gift to play that kind of character,” she said. “I think there’s something very powerful about her and I’m only sort of realizing now, with a little bit of a distance, how much of an impact she has had on people.” She even came clean about her mixed feelings about the teen drama series where she plays a teenager while she is on the precipice of her late twenties.
“It’s a complicated thing to me. Sex Education is so momentous as a concept, as a show, and the cast is phenomenal. I genuinely care about them all a lot and I made lifelong friends. We’ve kind of grown-up together,” Mackey stated. “But the bittersweet nature of it is that I also can’t be 17 my whole life.” She believes her role as Maeve does come with a "sell-by date" despite all the positivity and accolades it has brought to her. But she already has her sights set high as she is on a mission to play more powerful female characters, this time on the big screen.
She is already set to play women in history as part of Death on the Nile, based on the Agatha Christie novel and Emily, in which she plays Victorian novelist Emily Brontë. The roles she is playing happens to be a part of her personal feminist mission. She explained, “We don’t learn enough about women in history, and often when you read history books, the only facts and figures you have about [women] are who they married and how many children they had or didn’t have. That’s really sad – you’re chipping away whole identities and whole lives from the history books. It’s quite nice to be in a position to be able to reinvent and reimagine and actually flesh someone out who really existed.”
We may not see her as Maeve again but we will see her playing equally strong female characters in her future projects and that's something we can count on.
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