Emily Atack shares Rivals Season 2 junket snaps ahead of return
emily atack gave Rivals season 2 a promotional push with behind-the-scenes snaps from a junket day, posting the caption, “Rivals Season 2 Junket fun.” The 36-year-old is back in front of the camera as Sarah Stratton while the Disney+ series moves toward its return.
Rivals Season 2 junket
The junket appearance matters because it shows the series is in active promotion, not just in production memory. Atack’s latest post puts her directly into the release campaign, which is where streaming shows start building attention before viewers ever hit play.
Atack has been promoting Rivals season 2 ahead of the show’s return, and the cast around her gives the series a wider commercial footprint. Danny Dyer, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Katherine Parkinson and Alex Hassell are also in the ensemble, which is one reason the project is being treated like a major title rather than a single-character vehicle.
Barney and body image
In 2024, Atack welcomed her son Barney with partner Alistair Garner, and her comments about motherhood have stayed unusually direct. She said, “There’s something quite liberating about having a baby. Your body goes through so much and you genuinely look at your body as a completely different vessel,” a line that cuts through the polished language that often surrounds post-baby celebrity appearances.
She was even blunter about what comes after birth, saying, “Being pregnant and being desexualised, looking at your body, you create a human inside you, then you give birth to your child, which by the way is mental, you get home and the first thing people say to you is, when are you going to get back in the gym?” She added, “Where’s the congratulations for being a mother? Instead it’s when are you going to get the baby weight off…” and later said, “I’m not back at the gym at the minute, I’ve actually put on more weight since giving birth. I’m just enjoying this bit.”
Disney+ return, bigger stakes
The promotional day also sits against a bigger business picture: The Sun reported that Atack and her Rivals co-stars are each set to receive around £1.5million for the series. That figure puts the second season in the kind of pay bracket usually reserved for shows expected to carry a platform’s conversation, not just fill a slot.
For viewers, the immediate takeaway is simple: Atack is already in campaign mode, and the series is being sold with both its returning cast and her candid public remarks. If season 2 wants to land, it will do so with her as one of its clearest front-facing assets.
