Emma Atkins wishes she shared more screen time with Jeff Hordley on ‘Emmerdale’.
The Dales legend has celebrated 20 years as Charity Dingle this week, and she would love to revisit the "special connection" between her character and her cousin and on/off lover Cain Dingle, because she loves working with Jeff.
She said: "Working with Mr Hordley is always a dream and Charity and Cain had a special connection, which I’d love to revisit one day.
"I do wish I worked with Jeff more. Sometimes storylines cross over and I get a chance to have dialogue with Cain and Moira, which I love.
"Charity and Moira just about tolerate one another and the friction is so much fun to play with Natalie J. Robb, who I think is a brilliant actress. I love the chemistry between Moira and Cain."
Charity has been involved in plenty of controversies over the past two decades, and the character caused shockwaves in the Dales when she embarked on an affair with Zoe Tate (Leah Bracknell) while she was in a relationship with her brother Chris Tate (Peter Amory).
Emma has praised Leah – who passed away in October aged 55, following a three-year battle with stage four lung cancer – as an "incredibly kind and selfless human", and a "brilliant actress".
She added to Digital Spy: "I enjoyed my time on that storyline very much because I was lucky to have Leah opposite me.
"She was an incredibly kind and selfless human, not to mention brilliant actress, and she made it obvious that it was important to her that we both felt comfortable.
"It was ground-breaking for ‘Emmerdale’ I suppose and it was a rather controversial affair as well – the ultimate betrayal, with the obvious fact that Zoe was Chris Tate’s sister."
Emmerdale’s Emma Atkins would love more screen time with Jeff Hordley
