Emmerdale’s Olivia Bromley shares fears about leaving soap

Olivia Bromley recently opened up about her departure from Emmerdale after playing Dawn Fletcher for eight years.

Her departure had been rumoured earlier this year as the soap made a range of major cuts within the cast.

Dawn died in hospital on the show after being involved in a huge car crash on her wedding day that also killed Jimmy King, who had been played by Nick Miles for 22 years.

Olivia Bromley says Emmerdale exit was “scary”

Olivia has spoken about how she would have been “too scared” to decide to close the door entirely on her character, so was pleased the writers had given her an “amazing” story for her exit.

The actress told Digital Spy: “I was excited about the storyline and ready for my own new chapter.

“But I was surprised about how emotional it was to film, even after I’d known this was coming for a long time!

“It was the physicality of it as an actor and saying goodbye to this character that I’ve lived with for eight years.

“I didn’t think it would be a problem, but suddenly I was very emotional about it!”

She went on to say she is interested in doing other things in her career.

She continued: “I wanted to go and do other things – I think most actors want to at some point when they’ve been playing a character for so long.

“But it was the producers’ choice to do the storyline of Dawn’s death, so as an actor, you just have to play with it.

“The story was great and I thought: ‘Okay, this is probably a good thing because it’s a big, massive exit’.

“It’s not like: ‘Oh, go away for a bit and maybe come back’.

“It was very final, which for an actor is scary.

“But for me on a personal level, I think it was absolutely perfect.

“I think I would have been too scared to close the door entirely.

“So to be given this amazing story for Dawn’s exit was really exciting to me.”

Olivia said she would like to “play lots of different” characters now she has left the Dales with a particular interest in acting in a period drama, as “that’s so different” to her role in Emmerdale.

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