Tim Burton is a “large fan” of Steve McFadden.
Comic Matt Lucas labored with the award-winning filmmaker on 2010’s Alice in Wonderland and 2016’s Alice By means of the Trying Glass, and Matt claimed that Tim spoke with nice enthusiasm about Steve – greatest recognized for taking part in onerous man Phil Mitchell in EastEnders.
Matt requested Natalie Cassidy – who labored alongside Steve, 66, within the BBC cleaning soap, on and off, from 1993 till 2025 – on a current episode of his and fellow comedian David Walliams’ Making a Scene podcast: “Have you learnt who’s a large fan of Steve McFadden?”
Natalie, 42, replied: “Who?”
Matt, 51, answered: “Tim Burton.”
A stunned Natalie – who performed Nationwide Well being Service (NHS) nurse Sonia Fowler in EastEnders – responded: “Is he actually?”
Matt – who performed Tweedledee/Tweedledum in Tim’s live-action Alice in Wonderland films – continued: “Yeah, as a result of I labored with Tim Burton, and he was actually rhapsodizing about Steve McFadden.”
David, 54, questioned: “Why does not he give Steve McFadden a job?”
Matt replied: “I do not know, possibly as a result of he was busy on the time in EastEnders.”
David joked: “He could not make himself obtainable.”
Natalie – who left EastEnders in April to pursue different tasks – informed Matt to ask Tim if he has a job for her.
She quipped: “When you see Tim Burton once more, ask him if he is a fan of me as a result of I am up for a job.”
David and Matt jokingly chimed in with: “And me – all of us.”
Natalie prompt: “We may do one thing.”
Addressing Tim, 67, instantly, David quipped: “Tim, in the event you’re watching, come on. Come on, you have acquired the dream staff right here.”
The declare about Tim being a “large fan” of Steve comes as Natalie hailed her former cleaning soap co-star as “among the finest actors within the UK”.
She stated: “I’ve seen lots of actors are available in to EastEnders, sensible actors, character actors, theatre actors are available in and after a few weeks, they are saying, ‘I am unable to, it is an excessive amount of, such onerous work.’
“It is an actual talent, and I believe it is a disgrace, actually, as a result of it nonetheless will get regarded down upon, whether or not you prefer it or not, cleaning soap appearing, I believe, soaps typically.
“However in the event you can go in and do work on over 14 scripts. So within the morning, you is perhaps getting married and by the night, you have acquired divorced and somebody’s died.
“You are working over that stage of emotion all day lengthy, and you have to carry on high of it and know all of these traces and know who you are working with on totally different groups, on totally different areas.
“It is a talent. I at all times say that about Steve McFadden. Steve is, for me, among the finest actors within the UK.
“I believe he is superb.”
