Sunday 24 May 2009

Lyndon Ogbourne's Tricky On-screen Family

'Emmerdale' newcomer Lyndon Ogbourne finds it "tricky" acting around his "beautiful" on-screen mother and sister.

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Lyndon, who plays newcomer Nathan Wylde in the ITV soap, says while he quickly slotted into his role as son to Mark and Natasha Wlyde - played by Maxwell Caulfield and Amanda Donohoe respectively - he finds working with his on-screen mother and sister distracting.

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But then there's the wrong side of it, in that having someone as beautiful as Alice as your sister and Amanda as your mother is tricky at times

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Of his meeting Alice Coulthard, who is his sister in the series, Maisie, Lyndon said: "When we met up and discovered we were playing brother and sister, we just gelled.

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"But then there's the wrong side of it, in that having someone as beautiful as Alice as your sister and Amanda as your mother is tricky at times."

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Former 'Robin Hood' actor Lyndon added he was initially daunted in auditions by the calibre of actors he was working with.

He added to website Digitalspy: "In the last audition, we had to do screen tests and I was just thinking 'Jesus' because the family are very established actors. You think that something would come with that status for you to be a bit standoffish with them, but they're such great people.

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"When you see the first episodes of the family together, the reason why there's such a great bond between us on screen is because we all get on so well."

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