EastEnders star exposes gruelling soap schedule like a 'factory' with 18 hour days
dailystar.co.ukEastEnders star Jamie Foreman has spoken out about the gruelling schedule on set.He spoke about how stars have to work 18 hour shifts in the week as well as weekends.
The 64-year-old played Derek Branning from 2011 to the following Christmas when he was eventually killed off with a heart attack.
The Mirror reported in an exclusive interview that he was asked for his most memorable moment on the BBC soap, Jamie said: “I was too tired to pay attention to an anecdote."’I'd need to get in at seven in the morning and finish at eight at night.
By the time I got home I was doing 18 hours a day."I looked at my lines for the next day before going to bed. God. "I’ve never worked so hard in my life, it was like a factory when you worked on EastEnders.“You didn’t get a chance to do anything else."When I started they said, ‘You do the occasional Saturday.’ I was in the studio every single Saturday in the 13 months I was there."Anyone in the acting business who thinks about EastEnders, you try to do it.
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