One Day Star Ambika Mod Says Comments About Leo Woodall's Success Were 'Not Personal'

Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall in Netflix's miniseries One DayOne Day star Ambika Mod has insisted that her recent remarks comparing her own career to that of her co-star Leo Woodall were “not personal”.Back in May, the This Is Going To Hurt star gave an interview to GQ, in which she claimed that she and Leo “just don’t get treated the same at all”, despite receiving equal billing in their hit Netflix series.“I think we’re going to have very different careers,” she said, suggesting she is “always going to come up short” comparing herself to Leo, “because there’s a privilege there that I don’t have access to”.“Being brown is not particularly easy in this industry,” she lamented. “You don’t get the same opportunities. You don’t get the same ascension.”Ambika Mod at the Newport Beach Film Festival in FebruaryOver the weekend, The Times published an interview with Ambika in which she was asked if she regretted speaking so candidly about the differences between herself and Leo.“Not really,” she responded. “I mean, it’s the truth!”Insisting the remarks aren’t anything she’s “not said to Leo’s face, by the way”, Ambika continued: “Obviously it’s not personal. It’s just the industry and the way that our society works. You either get asked to audition for brown roles, which are usually the doctor, the dentist, the policewoman…”She added: “Even in the past year and a half, I have been asked to audition for the rookie cop who investigates the story of the two interesting white leads.”“If you’re brown, if you’re a woman, if you don’t have any connections, you do just have to work ten times harder to get half as far,” Ambika concluded. “That’s sadly a reality of it.”Earlier this year, Ambika made her big-screen debut in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag.She’ll next be seen in Sacrifice, a new action adventure film in which she stars alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, Salma Hayek and Charli XCX.Back in April, Ambika also appeared in the Disney+ miniseries The Stolen Girl, which premiered last month and featured Holliday Grainger and Jim Burgess, who played Dexter in the original film adaptation of One Day.Next month, she’ll also appear in the one-person play Every Brilliant Thing at London’s Soho Place theatre.READ MORE:18 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Probably Never Knew About One DayAmbika Mod Reveals How Reception To Anne Hathaway's One Day Accent Affected Her Own PerformanceThought The Stars Of One Day Looked Familiar? Here's Where You've Seen The Cast Before

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