EastEnders’ Natalie Cassidy and Patsy Palmer reveal fears over live anniversary ep & how long they have to learn scripts

EASTENDERS prima Natalie Cassidy has revealed her nerves for adjacent week's unrecorded 40th day occurrence - portion co-star Patsy Palmer considered being "naughty" and throwing successful improvised lines of her own.

The 2 amusement legends said they person lone days to larn their scenes for the celebratory episodes which aerial adjacent week.

The anniversary week volition diagnostic mean 30-minute episodes connected Monday and Tuesday, an hour-long peculiar connected Wednesday, and past the unrecorded occurrence connected Thursday with 2 imaginable scripts to movie - depending connected a spectator ballot that volition adjacent conscionable 20 minutes earlier broadcast.

Palmer and Cassidy - who is acceptable to permission the amusement aft 32 years arsenic Sonia Fowler - lone did a archetypal work done past week, but said they person been truthful engaged they would lone person a accidental to commencement looking decently astatine their dialog and storylines this week.

Although they often get small clip connected the regular BBC soap, the value of the occasion, her expected cardinal role, and the information it volition spell retired unrecorded volition person Cassidy connected edge, she admitted.

Cassidy, 41, said: "I inactive get precise tense - I person to accidental - particularly if I've got a large code oregon there's a large scene. I consciousness my bosom truly going, truly pumping. It's conscionable the mode I am.

"I consciousness precise privileged to beryllium a portion of this 40th anniversary. Super exciting, precise nerve-wracking.

"When I'm tense and erstwhile I'm stressed, I spell precise quiet. I bash a batch of yawning erstwhile I'm tired. I get truly tired, it truly drains me, and that is however I feel. But I shall footwear into action."

She told however erstwhile she had to work a code for long-time quality Dot Branning's ceremonial conscionable implicit 2 years agone her beating bosom caused havoc with the sound.

Speaking connected today's (Wednesday) occurrence of her Off The Telly podcast, she said: "I did Dot's ceremonial scenes.

"When I did Dot's ceremonial I had a vigor mic on, and I did the full speech, and it was the beauteous Richard Lynn (director), and Richard came up to maine and went 'What is that noise?' He said 'We can't truly usage that'.

"And it was my heart. It was beating truthful accelerated that dependable couldn't usage fractional of what I did due to the fact that it was beating that hard.

"But I bash get precise nervous. It does interest me."

Palmer, 52, who plays Bianca Jackson, the half-sister of Cassidy's character, admitted she'll besides beryllium nervous, but is excited for erstwhile the cameras rotation adjacent week - adding that contempt the speedy turnaround she volition beryllium acceptable for her scenes.

She said: "Even if I'd had the unrecorded occurrence 2 weeks agone I would not person been capable to work it.

"Of people we've had a batch of different worldly to do.

"We've got a batch of worldly to bash coming up to the unrecorded (episode) similar getting asked to bash things - got to bash this, that, and the different and promotion.

"Got a batch of parties coming up. The 40th day party, Nat's leaving party."

As her thoughts present crook to the unrecorded show, she added: "I'm really truly excited astir it.

"And I'm not going to beryllium naughty! I support reasoning 'What tin I bash - propulsion small bits successful present similar erstwhile you're successful a play?'  But I'm not going to bash it.

"I bash similar it (improvising off-script), if you're an actress, successful the theatre, that's each portion of it.

"I consciousness similar the different idiosyncratic connected acceptable with us, she mightiness propulsion a small spot in. You ne'er know. I volition beryllium nervous."

But Palmer said the acquisition and cognition she and Cassidy person of their characters, aft truthful galore years, should get them through.

She said: "We truly cognize what we're doing. It's astir getting it close and not wasting anyone's time. I privation to bask it due to the fact that it's not often we get that benignant of energy.

"I could bash the unrecorded present - we've lone rehearsed it once. We're going to get that feeling, that buzz, that adrenaline."

Palmer archetypal joined the soap successful 1993, staying for six years, and was besides determination betwixt 2008 and 2014, portion making different abbreviated returns close up until now.

Although she now lives with her family successful California, she flies backmost to movie her periodic episodes, but said she could ne'er instrumentality arsenic a formed regular full-time again.

She said: "I can't beryllium determination for excessively agelong due to the fact that beingness goes excessively accelerated there. It scares me. I don't privation my beingness to spell truthful fast.

"I emotion my life. I'm past the fractional mode mark, similar mode past it, and I surely don't privation it to spell truthful fast."

The spectator ballot which volition unfastened adjacent Wednesday nighttime volition find who Denise Fox (Parish) ends up with retired of Ravi Gulati and Jack Branning.

As an other treat, erstwhile viewers formed their ballot for Denise's partner, they volition beryllium fixed an other prime which is inactive being kept nether wraps.

The afloat occurrence of the Off the Telly chat is disposable contiguous (Wednesday) connected BBC Sounds