Samantha Womack has teamed up with the Post Office for a new travel campaign, which helps people get ready for their holidays.
The actress, who plays Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders, relaxed on a city rooftop beach to launch the campaign today (July 8th 2013).
Speaking at the launch of the new Post Office Travel Essentials campaign, Womack commented: “It’s harder kissing Scott than a complete stranger, because I know him so well. But luckily his wife Stellie, who’s one of my best friends, is very, very sweet and takes the mickey out of me all the time.
“It’s okay. It’ll be awkward the first one, and then when we get it over and done with – when we get back to it – it’ll be fine.”
Womack is returning to EastEnders for a six-month stint. Ronnie’s comeback is bound to shake up Albert Square following her two-year spell in prison for abducting Kat Moon’s baby son Tommy.
Asked whether her stories will be more cheerful this time round, Womack replied: “Oh, I hope so. I don’t know whether Ronnie is a cheerful kind of girl. It’s going to be hard, because she’s been through an awful lot, hasn’t she?
“So I think maybe she’s going to have to show signs of that in some way, because it would be awful if she had an experience like that and suddenly she came back and it didn’t mean anything.
“She needs to have echoes of trauma, but like everyone else, I liked the Mitchell sisters also when they arrived and they were vivacious, cool and no-one messed with them. So I’d quite like to get that back.”
On the possibility of crying scenes, she laughed: “Maybe just a few. You know you want them really! That’s when the ratings go really, really high, when I was at my most depressed – when I was kneeling on the curb crying over my dead children, you were all loving it! [There were] 14 million viewers!”
EastEnders will air Ronnie’s return in September.
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