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role of Georgie. I love playing such a strong female and Georgie is an amazing role model for girls and women out there.” As well as helping fainting women in restaurants, Michelle also enjoys a challenge but admitted there were moments making Our Girl when she found herself thinking, “I can’t do this.” For this series, there was a particularly scary stunt – which we see right at the beginning of the first episode – in which she had to hang upside down in a car. She said: “I’m scared of heights. That wasn’t great because it’s like a jeep and they spin it on a wheel and it’s quite high. sees how Mimi reacts. She’s not 100 per cent happy with it because she feels like she has to go out and mentor her in Afghan.”

However, there’s perhaps more behind Georgie’s decision than meets the eye. years ago I had a meeting with female medics who have seen their mates dying in front of them. “All they want to do is go back into the Army. They don’t want any time off.” She thought it was a very relatable storyline to explore. “I think Georgie threw herself into work and pretended nothing happened,” she said. “This time we need to explore that a bit more because that’s not real life. You can grieve for years. “Georgie’s got a way of brushing things under the carpet. I think that’s what she’s been doing.” As well as taking on emotional storylines, Michelle admitted the physical side of this show doesn’t get easier.

She said: “As soon as we get to South Africa, we have a boot camp, where we do drills, patrolling, running. We have to adjust to the heat.

“Obviously we can’t just have a light bag on the back because it would just look silly, so we have to have the full kit in a bag. And the weapons are really heavy as well.”