EastEnders star Samantha Womack has said she is sticking to acting on stage – because she always ends up in telly set bust-ups.
The actress is best known for playing the role of Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders over 10 years before her character was killed off in 2017.
She said: “I would say more of a theatre actress than telly now. It suits me much better in so many ways – the hours, for a start.
“I am awful first thing in the morning, I can’t function. They say people are either night or morning people – well I will happily sit up ‘til four or five am. But when you’re on a soap you have to get up at five.
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“And I always fall out with everyone in television. Someone is always telling you what to do with your character – I just get really irritated and I end up arguing and then getting sacked.”
But Samantha, 49, said she wouldn’t go back to the soap even if she could.
She added: “No, I’m dead! But I wouldn’t want to – as I get older I need something that gives me more creative control.
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“And theatre does that. In your 20s, you’re just grateful, but now I really love my job and I hate losing control over how a story is told.”
The actress was shocked by the decision to kill off her character, along with her on-screen sister Roxy, admitting it was “a huge blow” to kill off the character for good.
Samantha previously said that she would return to the soap if asked, and cheekily added she had even come up with a plot to get around her character being dead.
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She said on TalkRadio: “Billy works in the mortuary. He was working in the funeral parlour.
“Someone sent me storylines of people that had faked their own deaths to come out of situations. It’s really funny.”
EastEnders airs Mondays and Fridays at 8pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.40pm on BBC.
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