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Polish People Unrepresented In Soaps? Would A Polish Family Work?
I think it would be fascinating especially since a large portion of the population of the UK has Poles in it that it is a little unrepresented in soaps.. (as opposed to Asians for example) especially seeing them cope with the affects of Brexit, culture differences etc.
Would anyone welcome a Polish Family? |
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I think it would be fascinating especially since a large portion of the population of the UK has Poles in it that it is a little unrepresented in soaps.. (as opposed to Asians for example) especially seeing them cope with the affects of Brexit, culture differences etc.
Would anyone welcome it? |
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Yeah definitely
They should just create interesting characters that happen to be polish. Would work well. I liked Aleks as a character. It's kinda crazy that there isn't a polish family to be fair. |
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How about a couple of refugee families? with subtitles for the older non English speaking ones?
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Bring Aleks and his family back.
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As long as the actors play the roles well and they are given decent backgrounds i dont give two hoots about their nationalities.
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They need Polish characters working in the factory on Corrie, instead of the detestable, lazy, gobshites. I miss Wiki Dankowska.
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They need Polish characters working in the factory on Corrie, instead of the detestable, lazy, gobshites. I miss Wiki Dankowska.
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Was she played by the actress who popped up in Easties as Patricks carer? I thought she was good
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Yeah definitely
They should just create interesting characters that happen to be polish. Would work well. I liked Aleks as a character. It's kinda crazy that there isn't a polish family to be fair. It would make soaps more diverse and represent the UK
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They need Polish characters working in the factory on Corrie, instead of the detestable, lazy, gobshites. I miss Wiki Dankowska.
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Yes that's correct. The actress is Wanda Opalinska.
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I'd love some Polish person to replace Sean just to see the meltdown at him getting replaced.. they could do it that Aidan found Polish workers willing to accept less per hour
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Eastenders could bring back Daniella Denby Ashe (Sarah Hills), who is Polish and was brought up speaking Polish apparently, as the familial matriarch.
I think one of the problems is finding minority actors. There just might not be many Polish actors in the UK. If not the soaps would have to go down the route of the actors acting Polish and being otherwise, rather like the De Marco family in EastEnders who were meant to be Italian but none of the actors were. I wouldn't hold your breath anyway. Has Coronation Street managed a Jewish character in it's 56 years? |
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So much potential there and EE need a new family
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There is a character called Agnes Nowak in EastEnders on the 28th- Nowak is a Polish surname.
EastEnders is very white british in my opinion even though its set in the multicultural East End. We have lost a Muslim Family now the Masoods have all left. |
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It wouldn't work for Izzie. She would end up in terrible pain and back on crack. That sour faced cop would end up on long term disability like the other one.
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Yeah they'd work...really hard! I hate to stereotype here but Emmerdale (and Corrie) have factories, when I worked in factories there was loads of Polish workers so they could bring in a stand alone character first and then a family? Loved my polish colleagues because they taught me swear words...I'm cultured.
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I'd love some Polish person to replace Sean just to see the meltdown at him getting replaced.. they could do it that Aidan found Polish workers willing to accept less per hour
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I think it would be fascinating especially since a large portion of the population of the UK has Poles in it that it is a little unrepresented in soaps.. (as opposed to Asians for example) especially seeing them cope with the affects of Brexit, culture differences etc.
Would anyone welcome a Polish Family? |
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Oh for goodness sake!
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We could get five new family's and put them into one house on the square turn the mini mart into a polski shop which trades in dodgy cigs and cheap vodka
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How about a couple of refugee families? with subtitles for the older non English speaking ones?
No, thankyou. |
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Does this mean they have to add characters of every nationality that live in the East End of London, I'm sure there are plenty of other nationalities that are not represented by a character in EE?
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We could get five new family's and put them into one house on the square turn the mini mart into a polski shop which trades in dodgy cigs and cheap vodka
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