John Altman just isn’t involved together with his outdated ‘EastEnders’ co-stars.
The 72-year-old appearing legend performed nasty Nick Cotton from the cleaning soap’s first episode on February 19, 1985, after which on a sporadic foundation till the character’s demise in the course of the programme’s thirtieth anniversary week in 2015.
Regardless of the hit BBC One present turning 40 in 2025, and a few of the forged members he labored with, together with Adam Woodyatt (Ian Beale) and Letitia Dean (Sharon Watts), nonetheless on Albert Sq., he’s not in contact with them, and solely catches up with the celebrities at funerals.
Chatting with TV presenter Hayley Palmer at her viewers with Saturday night time present at The Hippodrome On line casino in London, John admitted: “I do not actually maintain involved with any of the forged members.
“I simply are likely to see them at funerals or at charity nights – there’s been too many funerals.
“If you end up at ‘EastEnders’, it’s a must to kind of minimize your self off from the world as you’re at it each single day of the week.
“Even on the weekend, you’re all the time studying traces – it is not glamorous!
“So while you’re not in it, they’re all nonetheless in ‘that world’ and I am within the regular world.”
Nick was the son of Dot Cotton, performed by the late June Brown, and since the pair knew their characters so properly, they have been in a position to “improvise” on set.
He mentioned: “June and I knew our characters so properly that we simply saved on improvising.
“The crew should have been trying round questioning the place all of the lacking pages of script had gone!”
John is starring in a brand new horror movie known as ‘The Final Grail Hunter’, which shall be out there to stream on Prime later this yr.
He performs the lead character Johnny Calvi, a failed grail hunter battling with alcoholism who makes one final try to search out the Holy Grail – the cup that Jesus drank from on the Final Supper, within the Mark Christopher Lee written and directed flick.
