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EastEnders stars and their breaks
What is it with them lately? It seems everyone is taking the chance to have a break with Charlie Brooks being the latest in a long line of stars to have time off.
We have Kat away for three months and had Max away for four last year. Ricky has gone for good I believe after several breaks in and out of the show and don't get me started on Letitia Dean! She will probably want a break after a week of being back. ![]() Then there are some who are, as we know, doing other things such Laila Morse, John Partridge and Steve McFadden, be it reality TV or panto. Is this some sort of new claus in their contracts that they are allowed time out to do other things? I always thought they weren't permitted time off apart from holidays, which is why Shaun Williamson, I am led to believe, quit as Barry in order to star in panto. |
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I wish my work would let me take 3 month breaks
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Filming for a soap is really intensive, especially if you're at the forefront of a pivotal plot. I imagine its quite emotionally exhausting too.
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I do wonder if its a way of EE bosses keeping the actors sweet, alot of the characters you mentioned Max, Phil and Janine are popular with viewers so allowing them short breaks to go off and do other things means they might stay with the show even longer. If that is the case then i dont mind but as long as they return.
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Many work places do career break schemes if you have worked for them for a period of time.
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I don't believe for one second that being an actor is emotionally exhausting. That's their job and they know it's not real. For me emotionally exhausting jobs are police officers, medical staff, social workers, McDonald employee...
I suppose that the 15-20 main characters (Phil, Zainab, Max ...) do most of the work but the other character who get a scene every other week get a lot of money for very little work (billy mitchell) |
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I don't believe for one second that being an actor is emotionally exhausting. That's their job and they know it's not real. For me emotionally exhausting jobs are police officers, medical staff, social workers, McDonald employee...
I suppose that the 15-20 main characters (Phil, Zainab, Max ...) do most of the work but the other character who get a scene every other week get a lot of money for very little work (billy mitchell) But yes, compared with the jobs you mention, it's not exactly the equivalent of an 8-hour shift in A&E... And, it's true - soap stars are generally pretty well paid for what they do. |
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Someone else mentioned on another thread that people in the slums of Rio or shelve stackers from croydon don't get breaks and they are ten times more exhausting. Or what about the soldiers in Afganisthan or miners in the coal mines?
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Filming for a soap is really intensive, especially if you're at the forefront of a pivotal plot. I imagine its quite emotionally exhausting too.
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I often wonder if its because they are playing another person that makes the job seem so exhausting. That and all those lines they have to learn. There are good and bad points I suppose to being a soap star. I don't know how well paid they are.
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Emotionally exhausting??!! As I said in another thread last night, they're hardly working down mines!! Yes they may act out emotional scenes, but it is just acting, for which they're VERY well paid!! When you think of firemen pulling burnt bodies out of buildings, do you think they've got it easier than these actors???? Bet firemen wish they got these nice long breaks!!
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Emotionally exhausting??!! As I said in another thread last night, they're hardly working down mines!! Yes they may act out emotional scenes, but it is just acting, for which they're VERY well paid!! When you think of firemen pulling burnt bodies out of buildings, do you think they've got it easier than these actors???? Bet firemen wish they got these nice long breaks!!
wouldn't care- but how many soap stars are only playing themselves half the time their not even acting same off screen as they are on screen ........................ |
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Thankyou MissLola and Cody1
![]() What is nice though is when soap actors acknowledge it is just acting! For instance, Jessie Wallace, (even though she's actually on a break herself) said when she was filming the baby swap story that she enjoyed filming such challenging scenes, and that it wasn't happening to her, and at the end of the day, she could just go home! It's these actors who say stuff like 'Yeah it's difficult to shake off the character' and 'I end up taking the character home with me' blah blah blah, luvvie talk, that really gets my goat !!
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Firstly soap actors especially ones who get the big stories on a regular basis do more than the 40hr week. And secondly they have to get it negotiated into their contracts, apart from emergency time off like Jessie Wallace. So do not blame the actors but blame the people that allow this to go into their contracts. I partly think the ones who get it put in there are the smart ones.
And sure you can compare it to firefighters, nurses etc. But you can do that with most well paid jobs. How about we start with bank bosses and their bonuses which all us tax payers are paying for. The bonuses are more than most soap stars would get in 10 years. I would say they are the bigger problem. |
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Pam St Clement and Adam Woodyatt had breaks in the past, it's not a new thing.
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If they didn't let them have breaks they'd probably leave.
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And sure you can compare it to firefighters, nurses etc. But you can do that with most well paid jobs. How about we start with bank bosses and their bonuses which all us tax payers are paying for. The bonuses are more than most soap stars would get in 10 years. I would say they are the bigger problem. However for police officers, doctors nurses, firemen ... they deal with the real exhausting stuff like the car accidents, terminally ill people, drug addicts, rape victims, wife-beaters .. And their long hours are mostly spend waiting between filming two scenes. |
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If they didn't let them have breaks they'd probably leave.
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Could some of these 'long breaks' simply be because EE has the biggest cast of any soap at the moment and that the producers don't use some characters for weeks/months on end?
The actor who plays Billy might LOVE to be given more storylines but the producers don't make him a priority, like they don't other characters. |
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Could some of these 'long breaks' simply be because EE has the biggest cast of any soap at the moment and that the producers don't use some characters for weeks/months on end?
The actor who plays Billy might LOVE to be given more storylines but the producers don't make him a priority, like they don't other characters. |
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Emotionally exhausting??!! As I said in another thread last night, they're hardly working down mines!! Yes they may act out emotional scenes, but it is just acting, for which they're VERY well paid!! When you think of firemen pulling burnt bodies out of buildings, do you think they've got it easier than these actors???? Bet firemen wish they got these nice long breaks!!
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Surely actors are really passionate about their work so it isn't hard work? its a bit different to a lot of labour jobs where there isn't much to really love.
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