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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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