![]() ![]() And I've never stopped loving it and really caring about it and so I haven't really considered that. I love it as much as I loved it from the first day I started on it. Has there ever been a time when you have considered leaving?Įmilia: No, I love it. Since appearing on the show, Amanda has said that she's not going to return. So I'm very quickly home and as soon as I'm through the front door, I'm back into mum life. ![]() But the joy of it is that I live very close to the studio. ![]() Is filming for the show quite a big undertaking then?Įmilia: It takes up seven months of the year. She's great fun and absolutely brilliant and stepped into Sam Ryan shoes again straight away. But it was a real joy to work with her again. We laughed a lot about, you know, the difficult things that you have to do, the juggling of real life and work life that she was experiencing when she was doing Silent Witness and so it was like seeing a sort of reflection of each other. "We laughed a lot about the difficult things" We all really felt what an amazing thing that was that she had agreed to come back and certainly playing out post-mortem scenes in front of her was nerve-racking because she is clearly the very, very best at it. Then with series 25, seemed like the best and most fitting celebration of a show which has gone on for a quarter of a century. I thought it would be so amazing if she did come back, both personally but also professionally. I didn't meet Amanda until series 20 and a journalist asked us about whether she would ever think about coming back to the show and she wasn't sure at that point. No one ever knew that it would continue after she left but then the show evolved with these different regular casts and always keeping the heart and DNA of Silent Witness the same. The show welcomed Amanda Burton back to play the iconic Sam Ryan for the 25th-anniversary series, what was it like reuniting with her?Įmilia: The show was left such an incredible legacy by her and her creation of the Sam Ryan character. And then while I was there, I developed a passion for acting and then once I started I didn't look back. But then going to university I tried to take a different path in life. I think certainly because lots of my family are in acting or have some connection to the same profession, it's exactly the reason why I didn't want to do it. Did you always want to go down the same career path?Įmilia: Well, I realise slightly to my shame now, that having worked on Silent Witness for 18 years, I probably could have trained to be a pathologist and done it for real but I'm not sure that I was ever clever enough to do that so it probably wouldn't have been a possibility in the end anyway. "I feel like Nikki's a great friend and ally" You come from a big acting family. ![]()
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