Brian May fails to recognise blood-soaked famous wife after shocking on-set accident

Lead guitarist of Queen Brian May failed to recognise his ain woman of 23 years aft she transformed into a zombie successful brand-new Ben Wheatley drama, Generation Z

Queen guitarist Brian May couldn’t recognise his ain wife, Anita Dobson, aft she transformed for caller zombie series, Generation Z. Talking astir the show, Anita confessed: “I sent my hubby [Queen guitarist, Sir Brian May] a photograph of maine from the acceptable erstwhile I was a spot bloodied up and helium couldn’t speak, helium conscionable asked, ‘Is this my wife?’” Anita, who plays Janine successful the series, adds, “I besides had a baptism of humor connected my archetypal time erstwhile they over-packed a humor container and it went everywhere.

"It was successful my eyes, up my nose, successful my ears – everyone got soaked. The walls were soaked and everyone was hysterically laughing.” Brian and Anita person been joined for 23 years and archetypal met astatine a movie preview soon aft Anita joined the EastEnders formed arsenic Angie Watts. More recently, Brian revealed that helium shockingly had suffered a stroke. Brian shared the quality to his fans successful September of this twelvemonth connected societal media, but reassured them that helium was inactive capable to play guitar.

The instrumentalist had besides suffered a bosom onslaught successful 2020. Speaking astir his latest wellness scare, helium said: "I'm present to bring you, archetypal of all, immoderate bully news, I think. The bully quality is that I tin play guitar aft the events of the past fewer days. I accidental this due to the fact that it was successful immoderate doubt, due to the fact that that small wellness hiccup that I mentioned happened astir a week agone - what they called it was a insignificant stroke. And each of a sudden, retired of the blue, I didn't person immoderate power implicit this arm. So it was a small scary, I person to say."

Meanwhile, Anita volition beryllium starring successful Ben Wheatley’s latest creation, Generation Z. It’s a satirical drama, and for Anita, her archetypal clip successful a zombie role, she said: “I’ve ne'er done thing similar this before. I thought, astatine my age, I should springiness everything a go.” In the series, Generation Z are astatine archetypal not alert of what’s going connected – that is until Anita’s quality Janine becomes infected and attacks her granddaughter Kelly, played by Buket Komur.

“When it comes to Kelly, Janine conscionable wants to infect her truthful they tin beryllium unneurotic – she doesn’t privation to termination her,” says Anita. “After Janine gets infected, she goes done the motions of fearfulness and wants to cognize what’s happening to her. But suddenly, she finds each the things that she felt erstwhile she was young. There’s a tendency to spell retired determination and bash things, to basal up for herself and she’s got the powerfulness to bash that. Janine’s wholly fearless and doesn’t privation that to change.”

Watch Generation Z connected Sunday 27 October, 9pm, Channel 4