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Open in new tab Michelle Keegan may be Our Girl, but she’s certainly one of the boys too.
The actress spent two months as the only woman surrounded by burly men. But husband Mark Wright needn’t be jealous – as the show’s stunt chief revealed it was all part of Michelle getting into the mindset of her Army medic character Corporal Georgie Lane.
The ex-Corrie star, 28, was apart from DJ hubby Mark, 29, while filming Our Girl 2 in Cape Town.
She wed the former TOWIE star last July. But rumours of marital problems surfaced during her stint in South Africa when she took off her wedding ring and Mark flew out with his parents. Stuntman Paul Pieterse said Mark only visited Michelle on set once.
But he explained: “Michelle is playing a tough, dedicated soldier who has to get everything right and she didn’t want her husband distracting her. She was alone in Cape Town the whole time because she wanted to focus on her character.
“Her husband didn’t stick around at all. When Michelle is working, she is working. It’s a tough role. She did very well.”
Michelle also had to hold her own when the cameras stopped rolling.
Paul added: “She had to be with a big bunch of men all day and when boys are together they are naughty and talk about all the wrong stuff. It was hard for her in and out