But Gone is the film she has been waiting to make, and she acquits herself well in it, playing Sophie, a girl who finds herself torn between two men - her boyfriend and a mysterious American who befriends them.
"It was nice to wear jeans and normal clothes," she laughs. "It made a change from the bonnet or corset I often get to wear.
"It was nice, too, being a bit loose with dialogue, as it was contemporary and gave me more freedom. I have never really had a lead in films and this being mainly a three-hander I had so much to do.
"In those films with big casts it was a matter of coming in and out but with Gone it was working every day, trying to get the right balance in the relationship between these guys. I had to think about things."
In fact, as it turned out, there was a bit of a Merseyside Mafia on the film. Playing her boyfriend Alex in the film was Liverpool actor Shaun Evans and even director Ringan Ledwidge had connections.
Born in London and raised in Brighton, his father was Irish. "He had family in Liverpool and was always a big Liverpool FC fan, which I am," he says. "I was in Istanbul."
He and Amelia were both gutted to discover that in promoting the new film they would miss much of Liverpool's game against Barcelona. "If ever there was a sacrifice to help this film, that was it," he declares. But perhaps the biggest sacrifice was in facing the Great Outdoors in Australia. First there were those flies.
"Until 10 o'clock in the morning, there were no flies," says Ledwidge, an award-winning maker of television commercials (VW, Adidas, etc) whose first feature film this is. "Then they would turn up from anywhere. We may have been in the middle of nowhere, but somehow they find you. I swallowed a few on a daily basis."
In many scenes, they can be seen crawling over the actors. "It was no use brushing them off because they came back," says Amelia. "The only good thing is that they were not of the biting sort."
Then there was the rain. "When we arrived, we were told it had not rained for two years but the next morning I looked out the window and it was hammering down. It was like that for two days and we had a lot of rain throughout the seven weeks of filming."
