Originally Posted by wiggles247:
“Interestingly Thomas is only playing someone a couple of years younger than him - he turns 18 this year and isn't Lucky meant to be 16 now??? And I personally think he does a brilliant job of playing him too - the only thing I think Emmerdale (and it is them rather than him) have got wrong is not explaining how and why he's suddenly got so muscular (and it only needed to be a throwaway line about him going to the gym in the holidays, after college etc so wouldn't be hard to do either).”
I am going to be a bit controversial here, but I suspect – for reasons I know not – that there is a lot of peer pressure within the cast of
Emmerdale, to rush off to the gym,like compulsory PE at school – Michael Parr, Kelvin Fletcher, Adam Thomas and Danny Miller and Tom – if I might say so – seem to spend far too much time there. I don't think a gym has ever been mentioned even in Hotton?
I don't follow the other soaps all that clearly, mostly I watch on You Tube the storylines which interest me, but characters like Lee, Jonny, Paul, Ben and Jay (
Eastenders) Todd and Billy, Andy and Tyrone (
Coronation Street) or John Paul (
Hollyoaks) don't seem to be big and beefy. I actually think they look better for being more ordinary, because most of us who work every day don't have time to admire ourselves in front of gym mirrors. I find it a bit narcissistic frankly, though that takes nothing away from their acting. I did 17 hours yesterday and will do 15 today lots of other people do long days as well,so don't get time for such self-indulgence.
My problem is less with the physicality of Kirin and Lachlan, but the fact is both were/are too knowing and self-assured to be 18 year olds. Given that both had what might be regarded as privileged perhaps spoilt backgrounds, the fear of losing that privilege would, I should say, make him rather more nervous.
In other news, I see next week the absurd "Jimmy" offers "Kerry a shoulder to cry on" and (of course) Nicola gets the green glints again. It is all so predictable
