Guy Pearce had to keep his return to ‘Neighbours’ "really quiet".
Guy Pearce kept his Neighbours return under wraps
The ‘LA Confidential’ star, 55, began his career on the Aussie soap as hunky Mike Young- which Amazon Freevee is rebooting after Channel 5 axed the show earlier this year - and left in 1989 to pursue his meteoric rise in Hollywood but wanted to “do right” by the character, the dedicated fans and make an appearance in the new episodes, according to his on-screen love Jane Harris, played by Annie Jones.
The 56-year-old actress told the Sun newspaper: “We had to keep it all really quiet but Guy was in London and we were able to film some bits.
“We just threw up a couple of ideas, possibilities of what could have happened. And then we shared those with the writers and the producers and came up with a solution.
“Guy wants to do right by Mike and by all the fans that seemed to have loved the Mike and Jane story in the last episode so much, and I’m very happy how it’s playing out.
“Mike's fitted into the neighbourhood, he's great friends with Karl, he and Karl jam together a lot. They've got a bit of a Ramsay Street Band kind of thing going on.
“He really loves living here."
Annie - whose character is affectionately dubbed “plain Jane super brain” - spilled about the plans for their on-screen nuptials after they rekindled their love and it was confirmed her daughter Sam (Henrietta Graham) was Mike’s in what they thought was the last ever episode in the new series, which is set two years on and will begin airing on September 18.
In the trailer, she says: “Well, we found a date on the calendar and went for it.”
Jane also can be heard saying: “I have been keeping something from you.”
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