EastEnders legend Sam Womack says she could return as Ronnie and reveals how she can come ‘back from the dead’
EASTENDERS star Samantha Womack says she could return to the soap if asked – and even has a plan to get round the fact her character is dead.
The Ronnie Mitchell actress, 48, was killed off alongside Rita Simons, who played her sister Roxy, in 2017.
Speaking to Cristo Foufas on TalkRadio today she called the decision by BBC bosses to end the character for good a “huge blow”.
But she explained that she would be up for returning if the script was up to scratch, and suggested that Ronnie could have faked her own death.
Referring to her character’s cousin in the Mitchell family, she said: “Billy works in the mortuary. He was working in the funeral parlour.
“Someone sent me storylines of people that had faked their own deaths to come out of situations. It’s really funny.”
Yeah [I’d return] as long as it could be post-Covid. Haystack hair and wafting about in a kaftan
Samantha Womack
Pressed on whether she would take up an offer to return in a plot whereby Ronnie has been “so damaged she faked her own death”, the actress said she was open to the idea.
Sam explained: “I’d do any job – if I read the script and I thought any job was exciting.
“Yeah, as long as it could be post-Covid. Haystack hair and wafting about in a kaftan.”
Laughing about the fact Ronnie is never mentioned in the soap, Samantha said: “It’s like I didn’t exist.”
The actress is about to play Morticia in a touring production of The Addams Family that features a live orchestra for six months from Saturday 11 September.
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