Emmerdale star Mike Parr says the upcoming action and stunts surrounding the ill-fated wedding of Pete Barton and Debbie Dingle are 'gold' for the cast.
Mike, who plays Ross Barton, Debbie's jilted lover, said he loved getting the action-packed scripts surrounding the wedding day disaster.
Mike told What's on TV: "When you read stuff like that it's gold, you should be grateful, it's different to what we do every day. Then it came to me lying face down in the water for quite a while and it was freezing and I had a wetsuit on... [but] I loved it!"
Ross is knocked unconscious by Debbie's father, Cain, and tied up in a van so he can't disrupt the wedding. But when the disaster strikes events lead to scenario where his life's in grave danger.
"I begged Kate [Oates, Emmerdale's producer] to let me do the actual stunt," he said. "The reality is, had I been up there I probably would... I definitely would have done it! I never would have not done it. [But] I would have been shaken and it might've needed a lot of time to pluck up the courage."
Mike said Emmerdale fans won't be disappointed with the climactic hour-long wedding episode when it screens on Tuesday: "There's stunts, there's action, there's high emotion, there's great dialogue, but underneath it all there's great entertainment."
Watch the interview with Emmerdale's Mike Parr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOov3omYNwA
