EASTENDERS genius Tilly Keeper said it was “unreal” working with her on-cover mother Lucy Benjamin for the basic time.
Benjamin, who plays Lisa Lexicographer, has returned to the BBC One soap for a short bit and was seen making her surprise retort at the end of Friday’s episode.
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Lisa has returned to Albert Rectangular to be by her daughter Louise Mitchell’s slope in hospital after the teen was pushed onto lit candles by browbeat Alexandra D’Costa (Sydney Recreant) and engulfed in flames at her school promenade.
Keeper, who has played Louise – the girl of Lisa and Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) – owing to January 2016, said she was “rattling excited” to discover Benzoin was coming back to the programme.
Warden said: “I’ve eternally wanted to meet Lucy. The miss who’ve played Louise already me have all got to work with her and it was something I in truth wanted to do.
“It was so lovely to meet her. I knew we would get on as ere long as we met. Just from what I’d heard from otc cast, such as Letitia (Elder), I knew she was brilliant. I loved her linear away.”
Keeper said “it was a bit surrealistic” to work with Benzoin and added: “It was very colorful to anything I’ve experienced on EastEnders.
“Each works so hard on EastEnders but thither was just something different almost this, she was so incredible.
EastEnders' Lisa Lexicographer returns to Walford after a vii year absence
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EastEnders Lisa Lexicographer returns
“She really switched something on in me, without superficial cheesy.”
Keeper said: “I tolerant of had this ‘oh, that’s how you do it’ moment. You get different experiences and learn colorful things when you work with deviating actors.
“But I think because this was so new and impudent, and we had to get the relationship right straight forth and we were just so comfortable well-adjusted from the beginning, it just matt-up special.
“We wanted to do the storyline administration. It’s Lisa’s return. It’s massive. As presently as I joined, people started expression to me ‘where’s Lisa?’ so it’s lovely that we lastly got to do it. I just felt so comfortable workings with her.”
Benjamin, who originally appeared in the max from 1998 until 2003 and was implicated in the popular Who Shot Phil? plot, will appear in the programme in distinct episodes in the coming weeks.
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New depiction show Lisa’s reunion with her hospitalised girl, who she has not seen for some years, and Warden has said viewers should await drama between the pair.
She aforementioned: “Let’s just say it’s going to be a rough few weeks for Louise.
“She has a lot to heap with. There’s going to be dozens of drama.”
- EastEnders airs Mon, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Stygian on BBC One
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