This morning 2025 ( eastenders star Elijah Holloway )

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00:00oh elijah holloway who plays albert squares harry mitchell joins us now i mean you haven't been on

00:06very long but already scandal drama i mean talk about scene stealing right yeah i'm very lucky

00:13yeah it's been a busy a busy busy year indeed um within i think yeah i've been there for about

00:19almost a year and a half and within that time harry's been through quite a lot yeah you've

00:25gone from uh like you've gone from being carpenter to being in one of the biggest shows and more than

00:30that to being one of the most important soap families on that show as well yes the soap family

00:36yeah if i might say yeah i mean i'm i didn't know that i was going to be a mitchell when i first

00:42joined um so what did you know nothing really and it's still that way uh yeah so obviously i was doing

00:52carpentry i was doing rigging um i was just kind of working and i got this audition and i went through

00:59rounds of auditions and i got the part and you go in for a characterization and basically i sat down

01:06and they went soap harry mitchell and i was that was a real shock the first time you knew that what

01:14you're the family or anything yeah yeah yeah and you're a mitchell wow so i was like oh and i'm

01:20kind of glad i didn't know that before while i was auditioning because i probably would have tried

01:24to do a phil mitchell impression yes yeah but i just kept it to myself and yet it was uh i found

01:30out i was a mitchell on that day um which was yeah a shock but a privilege why would you have done

01:35i mean i'm good friends with perry why would you have done a phil not a not a billy he's too iconic

01:40so you're a mitchell you're sorry in the middle of the storylines of course so we talk a little

01:49bit about what's coming up so you're embroiled with kojo trying to protect kojo at the moment

01:53yeah everything that's happened so far uh to harry in this current um drug storyline is

02:01to protect kojo right uh i think harry sees um a really dear friend in kojo um someone that some

02:08a friendship that he hasn't had before and uh yeah he's ended up in a real sticky situation

02:14trying to protect him uh and protect other people around him yeah and you two were actually friends

02:21before yeah in real life yeah me me and d we go way back i was working in a theater uh on the stage

02:30door and he was in a show um and we met through there he was an actor in the show and we we got

02:37talking realized that we got on and then at the end he sent me a letter asking for my number

02:41he's just very romantic actually um and then we stayed in contact and we talked like you know once

02:48a month or whatever we'd have a phone call and i was able to tell him look i've got a job in these

02:53vendors i've got an acting job he knows that i've been waiting for a long time for something

02:56and uh he was super happy for me a month later he calls me and goes you'll never guess what

03:02i'm gonna be in these vendors now i thought he was just pulling my leg because he is cheeky i was

03:06like yeah okay okay and then i see him at work and we can't quite believe it because we spoke about

03:11working together when we we were like imagine we got to do something together so he's there at

03:15albert square we can't quite believe it and then i was like oh he was he actually said he was like

03:20imagine if we got to have seen together yeah that'd be amazing but probably unlikely because

03:24our characters aren't too similar and now we're best mates in the show and they've like included

03:29the handshake yeah the handshake kind of came up with it um our handshake is a little bit different

03:35we have a hug but yeah it's a variation of rock paper scissors and it kind of happened in the moment

03:42and then yeah whoever wins has to make the other one tea

03:45oh nice um but yeah that that handshake will continue through through the show as it goes on

03:52in this story like excellent and the mitchells are really on there winning lots of awards at the

03:56moment you're you're on screen and mum yes laura picked one up at the inside so i saw you there on

04:01the front row cheering along i wouldn't be anywhere else yeah i mean so well deserved she's just

04:06uh a formidable character formidable actress she is so uh amazing to work with and obviously this is my

04:13first thing so i'm a i'm a beginner and learning from a pro like her like steve mcfadden all the

04:19other mitchells but because we work so closely together she's been a real and it's only days for

04:23you but steve collecting that world at the mtm oh my gosh and when we saw him backstage you could see

04:28how moved he was by the whole experience yeah that moment yeah i think it was really emotional for

04:33all of us as well because we realized how uh deserving it is and like when you're there it's it's a lot of

04:40graft and he is always working and the commitment that he's put into that part to see it in that

04:48moment it kind of like a little bit of um yeah i mean just to be awarded with that recognition it

04:56was it was really powerful really beautiful moment and what about the future then for your character

05:02yeah there's gina yes we'll see i hope so um yeah i love working with francesca and i think gina and

05:12harry's relationship is really lovely the fact that her uncle is kojo as well but yeah there's not much

05:18i can tell you obviously yeah but um it's going to keep ramping up i think the storyline that we're

05:24coming into and that we're going to continue to tell is a really important story okay um and it's

05:29something that is happening in the world and it needs to be exposed and i think things are gonna

05:34only ramp up for for harry and the people around him he seems to bring chaos and we love watching it

05:41it's the best way thank you for coming in send that best to everybody over there as well thank you so

05:46much thank you he said this continues tonight at 7 30 on pbc one well that's still to come could

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