Emma was offered the lead role in television commercials: All Bran Cereal, The Saturday Times and Minxy Bingo TV and was offered a featured role in a music video for the band Lightspeed Champion. She had to turn down these roles, due to other acting commitments. The latter was filmed by director Saam Farahmand at Partizan Films, who is renowned for shooting videos for Janet Jackson. Emma was also first choice of director Obi Emelonye, to play the pilot in his film The Last Flight to Abuja, alongside leading Hollywood star Hakeem Kae-Kazim.