Rebecca boxed clever to win role with sparring partner Anna

Edinburgh. She was totally chilled out and just said, ‘Oh, that’s good. I knew you’d get it.’ It was a bit of a letdown.” Melody is the new girl in the agency and also in London, a city she still imagines to be paved with gold. But she proves to have what it takes to survive and thrive.

Rebecca had to adapt to the capital herself when she moved down from Edinburgh in 2012.

“I had promised myself I wouldn’t go down without work as it’s difficult being so far away from home,” she says.

“If you don’t have a job it can be disheartening but I managed to get a six-month theatre job in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. “Forbes Masson was in it and it was like I had a mentor but London felt very big and feeling anonymous was hard to adjust to. I do like it – but I yearn for home. You can’t beat Scotland. It calls you back and I come back a lot now. “Edinburgh has a personality I felt very close to and having the Festival when you’re a teenager and want to perform was invaluable.”

Even though Rebecca’s time in Game Of Thrones as Talla Tarly was brief, it was still important.

“I’m sure it stepped things up for me. I felt it was important to do something high-profile.

“The regulars I was working with were very kind and generous. I had to keep pinching myself. I was certainly proud of it and we filmed out in Barcelona, which felt really special.” Rebecca is keeping busy with roles in Netflix’s The Witcher, with Henry Cavill, and Year Of The Rabbit with Matt Berry for Channel 4.

Flack starts on W, Thur, 10pm.

n▼ New TV series Flack, above, lifts the lid on celebrity public relations. Inset, Rebecca in Game of Thrones as Talla Tarly.