EastEnders star Rudolph Walker says the soap will be tackling storylines that “we’ve never seen on television before” under the leadership of new Executive Producer Ben Wadey.
Rudolph Walker is excited about the future of EastEnders
The 85-year-old actor has played Patrick Trueman since 2001 and, after 24 years on Albert Square, Rudolph is very excited about the next chapter for the BBC One show after speaking to Ben about his plans for the Walford residents.
Rudolph believes that EastEnders is in a great place thanks to the work that was done by Ben’s predecessor Chris Clenshaw and it will now only go from strength-to-strength.
Speaking to the new issue of Best of British magazine, Rudolph said: “We have a new executive producer, Ben Wadey, who is fantastic. In fact, the last executive producer was also fantastic, Chris Clenshaw, and he’s built EastEnders up to a quality that is just unbelievable, using all the actors.
“Ben is great. He’s come in. He’s very positive about the future of EastEnders. And I have very high hopes that we are going to see things that maybe we’ve never seen on television before. Or if we did, it hasn’t been highlighted. I think we’re going to see a lot more of that. There are lots of surprises and more to come from EastEnders over the months and years.”
Since becoming Executive Producer, Ben has already made several big decisions on EastEnders.
Wadey has brought back Michelle Ryan has Zoe Slater, the daughter of Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) and Ricky Champ as Stuart Highway.
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