Perry Fenwick revealed Danielle Harold added a touching line to the 'EastEnders' script for their characters' final goodbye.
Perry Fenwick praises Danielle Harold
Danielle's Lola tragically died following a battle with brain cancer and she shared a heartbreaking moment with her grandfather Billy before she passed.
Perry told Radio Times: "Danielle put in a line that wasn't in the scripts. It was when she woke up and she said 'I love you too, Pops' and then a little tear came down. That sent me going!
"Danielle added it and it wasn't in the scripts. That did eventually become Lola's last words. We were in bits. We had to take a decent break afterwards, after doing some scenes. But Danielle has been fantastic.
"It was hard, because we've got a parallel story going on. We've got Billy, Honey and Lola – and Perry, Emma [Barton] and Danielle. So a lot of the scenes are very much about her going. OK, it's not the same as the story, but it's still tears of sadness.
"It was a tough schedule, but we all committed to it. We ended up calling Danielle 'Thames Water', because she could turn on the tears like that!"
Danielle previously admitted she found the scenes difficult, saying: “It was definitely the most difficult thing I've ever filmed in my life because, obviously, we haven't experienced it and so, just to put yourself in that mindset, it was really difficult, and slow your body down and everything. I thought that would be the easy part."
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