One fiery Emmerdale scene that aired on the ITV soap recently left one actor saying ‘sorry’ to his pal and co-star on the show, amid a dark storyline for their characters
While there’s no love lost between Emmerdale villain John Sugden and his enemy Mackenzie Boyd, the same cannot be said for the actors playing them on the ITV soap.
Mack actor Lawrence Robb has nothing but praise for his co-star Oliver Farnworth, despite the sinister storyline between their characters. Lawrence called his pal and co-star Oliver “lovely”, when asked about his dark performance as killer John.
He made it very clear that the bitter feud between the characters onscreen stays just there, with him showing “love” for Oliver, or Ollie as he calls him, in real life. In fact one rage-fuelled scene between them that recently aired on the soap left actor Lawrence apologising to his co-star.
He shared a sweet message to Oliver moments after they cut from filming a scene where Mack and John once again butted heads. In the scene, Mack slammed John and warned him to stay away from his friend, John’s fiancé, Aaron Dingle.
Things took a bitter turn as the men began rowing over John’s recent actions coming to light. With that Mack warned John and sent him packing, and it was pretty aggressive.
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Of course it was all make belief for Mack vs John, and once the scenes were over everything returned to “normal”. With that, Lawrence told The Mirror and other press how he was left apologising to Oliver, feeling bad for how fiery things got for their fictional characters.
Not liking to shout at the “lovely” cast member the way Mack did to John, with Mack disliking the villain, Lawrence confessed he wasted no time in making peace. He said: “Ollie’s lovely. I remember when I turned him away when we had that shouting match outside Mill Cottage, when we finished shooting it was like, ‘Sorry Ollie, I love you!’ As soon as they shout ‘cut’ he’s back to a normal, jovial chap.”
The same could not be said for onscreen, with things set to get worse for Mack and John. Spoilers have revealed their feud continues with Mack keen to sabotage John on his stag do.
It leads to John heading off in pursuit of “his prey” Mack, and soon disaster hits the village. Details are being kept under wraps, but Lawrence has confessed he, like fans, is worried for his character.
He explained: “The thing is with John, he obviously killed Nate but he didn’t do it intentionally. Could he go all the way with Mackenzie? I absolutely do think so. If John were to fall into that kind of spiral of being a serial killer, Mackenzie would be right at the top of that list. So on that basis, Mackenzie’s life is in jeopardy.”
Mack could find his relationship with pal Aaron at risk too amid his feud with John. Lawrence told us: “That’s bound to happen. There were whisperings of that when Mackenzie told Aaron he sent John away.
“When someone’s in love the wool’s over the eyes, there’s rose-tinted glasses, your judgement is clouded when love is involved. I do think that Aaron does love John. Mackenzie is treading a path of not wanting to upset his mate but also ‘How do you not see what’s going on?’ kind of thing.”
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