The cast and crew of Emmerdale have successfully filmed the “biggest stunt since the Covid-19 pandemic began”, which is set to air on ITV next week.
In a trailer airing tonight, Jimmy King (Nick Miles) will lose control of his vehicle, which then careers off the road at speed and ploughs into a set of farming buildings.
It’s the day of Mandy and Paul’s wedding, and it looks as though disaster is about to strike.
In the explosive trailer, Vinny can be seen lying on the ground, looking frightened.
Villain Paul is threatening someone, and says: “You screw it up, you and me are going to fall out, you got that?”
And in one shot, Liv can be seen clutching her face as though she’s been slapped.
At the end of the trailer, Mandy gets a phone call and says: “It’s the hospital.”
What follows are a series of explosive events, which will eventually lead to the “untimely” death of at least one character.
But which fan favourites are to be axed remains to be seen.
In a week where emotions will be running high, the Emmerdale production team has come up with inventive ways of ensuring the audience “will be left on the edge of their seats”, ITV has promised.
The vehicle stunt was filmed for real on the outskirts of the village where Emmerdale filming takes place in Leeds.
Green screen filming techniques were also adopted to ensure the cast and crew could shoot the jaw-dropping scenes in safety.
Director Dave Beauchamp said: “The great thing about working on Emmerdale is everyone there is so committed to making the show as good as possible.
“I knew I had to make it look and feel special. Every job I do I try to do this, but this felt an especially big challenge with a lot of people wanting it to be something to be proud of.
“We couldn’t have the real actors close for safety reasons so we used a mixture of stunt-doubles and green-screen shots to make you think the actors were in real jeopardy. I’m extremely pleased and relieved!
“It does look spectacular, and I am so happy for everyone involved. This would have been a big challenge in normal times, but to be able to achieve this with all the Covid protocols in place is amazing.
“There was a lot of planning and hard work involved and I think that comes across on screen.”
Producer Laura Shaw added: “For months now we’ve been waiting for the appalling, horrible truth about Paul to be exposed and of course, we always knew that we would want that truth to come out in a hugely dramatic and explosive way.
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“Shooting a colossal stunt with social distancing is no easy task and it took months of meticulous planning and the whole Emmerdale team, proudly pulling together, to enable us to successfully achieve what are undoubtedly, our most ambitious and spectacular episodes of the last year.
“It’s a highly charged, emotional, nail biting, holding-your-breath week of Emmerdale, that promises to leave devastation in its wake and irrevocably change the lives of some of our most loved villagers.”
Emmerdale airs weekdays on ITV at 7pm with an extra helping on Thursdays at 8pm
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
