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EastEnders actress Alice Haig found "carrying the weight" of the toxic masculinity storyline involving her on-screen son Joel Marshall (Max Murray) tough - and she cannot wait for some "light relief" when the story ends.

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00:00Thank you for joining us.
00:30Do you know what? Usually, I never do, I always find that I'm able to kind of drop it at the end of the day, but obviously I've never done a job like EastEnders before, and I haven't realised how long you're carrying these stories, so actually after kind of a few weeks of carrying the weight of that story, I was starting to feel quite like, I'm looking forward to some like relief, but yeah, yeah.
00:58It's a totally, like, brilliantly written and mapped out storyline, so I'm hoping that the audiences enjoy it, so maybe not the word, but get something from it.
01:10The fallout of what's to come is going to be even more challenging as an actor, it's very challenging to film, but also, these are the kind of storylines, not only that are important to tell, but also are great for an actor.
01:29You get to do all the stuff that, you know, you dream of doing, like the really dramatic stuff, so it's been amazing and a privilege.
01:38He's done so brilliantly, he's such a nice guy in real life, not like that at all, and he's just taken it in his stride, and he's had lots of support from everybody at work, and I think he's just, he's nailing it, and it's such a, I think he's taking comfort and courage from the fact that it's such an important story to tell.
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