Post by sultenfuss on Aug 2, 2006 18:22:40 GMT
Ex-'EastEnders' star slams script writers
Tuesday, July 25 2006, 13:47 BST - by Kris Green
Former EastEnders star Tracy-Ann Oberman has blasted show script writers claiming they "must have been on crack" when they penned her storylines.
Pregnant Tracy-Ann, 37, played the venomous Chrissie Watts for one year and bowed out of the show last Christmas after her alias murdered on-screen husband Den Watts (Leslie Grantham).
Of the storyline, the actress told the Radio Times: “It didn’t make logical or emotional sense - but they said, ‘That’s the soap convention, dear, get used to it’.
“I was worried when four-year-olds said to me, ‘I saw you kill Den.’ I don’t agree with censorship but there has to be a level of responsibility."
Speaking of her time with the show, she went on: “Let’s say they were interesting times. Each executive producer brought in new writing teams. It was a challenge, particularly when the storylines made you laugh out loud. You imagined the writer must have been on crack when they wrote it.
“Because of the ratings war, soap stories become increasingly outrageous, violent and sexual, and less an everyday tale of normal folk. There was a point where every character had been involved in a murder."
She added: “I learnt a lot. In 18 months I knocked up four years of acting experience."
I am loving her at the moment, in the Metro this morning there was a really great quote from her aswell
"I would often think "what would Bette Davis do?" for moments I found impossible to act...like having to talk to a dead husband under concrete while mildly drunk before bursting into tears".
I think she must be aware that the gays like her judging from the Bette Davis reference. Are we aware if she reads Lowculture?
Tuesday, July 25 2006, 13:47 BST - by Kris Green
Former EastEnders star Tracy-Ann Oberman has blasted show script writers claiming they "must have been on crack" when they penned her storylines.
Pregnant Tracy-Ann, 37, played the venomous Chrissie Watts for one year and bowed out of the show last Christmas after her alias murdered on-screen husband Den Watts (Leslie Grantham).
Of the storyline, the actress told the Radio Times: “It didn’t make logical or emotional sense - but they said, ‘That’s the soap convention, dear, get used to it’.
“I was worried when four-year-olds said to me, ‘I saw you kill Den.’ I don’t agree with censorship but there has to be a level of responsibility."
Speaking of her time with the show, she went on: “Let’s say they were interesting times. Each executive producer brought in new writing teams. It was a challenge, particularly when the storylines made you laugh out loud. You imagined the writer must have been on crack when they wrote it.
“Because of the ratings war, soap stories become increasingly outrageous, violent and sexual, and less an everyday tale of normal folk. There was a point where every character had been involved in a murder."
She added: “I learnt a lot. In 18 months I knocked up four years of acting experience."
I am loving her at the moment, in the Metro this morning there was a really great quote from her aswell
"I would often think "what would Bette Davis do?" for moments I found impossible to act...like having to talk to a dead husband under concrete while mildly drunk before bursting into tears".
I think she must be aware that the gays like her judging from the Bette Davis reference. Are we aware if she reads Lowculture?
