{"id":66561,"date":"2023-09-08T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/?p=66561"},"modified":"2023-09-08T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:00:08","slug":"eastenders-peter-beale-star-reveals-why-he-had-to-quit-the-soap-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/eastenders-peter-beale-star-reveals-why-he-had-to-quit-the-soap-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders&#x27; Peter Beale star reveals why he had to quit the soap | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A STAR who shot to fame while playing Peter Beale on EastEnders has revealed his reason behind quitting the soap.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Hardy got recognition as an actor while in the Albert Square role between 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/eastenders-peter-beale-screen-dad-19007913.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ben-hardy-eastenders-lauren-548637455.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ben-hardy-attends-virgin-media-843405835-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>But he soon swapped the East London set for Hollywood, going on to star in films such as X-Men: Apocalypse and the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old opened up about feeling &quot;stuck&quot; in EastEnders before he left in an interview with Deadline, saying he felt like he needed &quot;to get out of there.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was my screen education, I suppose,&quot; he shared. &quot;I felt much more comfortable going to work on films, having had that day-in\/day-out training of just all the technical stuff you don\u2019t want to be thinking about on set.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It becomes muscle memory. I think there\u2019s a point where I had to leave, though, because I felt like if I didn\u2019t leave, I\u2019d get stuck in this.&quot; <\/p>\n<h2><span>in TV<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tp-composite-movie-lookalikes-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>From cult classic lookalike to Marilyn frock &#8211; meet Hollywood&#8217;s doppelgangers<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-23857389-1694113398657.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>EastEnders horror for Stacey Slater as stalker Theo Hawthorne makes shock move<\/h3>\n<p>The English actor also admitted there were times when he felt like he was settling for doing worse performances in his role because the soap was so fast paced.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &quot;You\u2019re trying to make it the best it can be, but it can leave you feeling a little bit unfulfilled because the nature of the beast is they have to produce so much material in such a short space of time. So things do feel a little bit rushed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For me anyway, personally, I reached a point where I felt myself starting to not try to make the best version of something, I found myself going, \u2018That\u2019ll do.\u2019 Then as soon as that started to enter my mind, I was like, \u2018I need to get out of here.\u2019&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Dorset-born lad thinks other actors were better suited to the show.<\/p>\n<h2>Most read in Soaps<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OP_TRP_839898596.jpg\"><\/picture><span>DEE-DEE-LIGHTFUL <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Shock new love interest for Dee-Dee Bailey in Coronation Street<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-23857393-1694117286220.jpg\"><\/picture><span>heartbreaking <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Emmerdale viewers heartbroken as Lydia silently suffers after rape ordeal<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ac-serial-soap-star-comp.jpg\"><\/picture><span>SCREEN QUEEN<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>I\u2019ve acted in every soap &#8211; there&#8217;s a reason you never want a job on Hollyoaks<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OFF-PLAT-PC-Ian-Beale.jpg\"><\/picture><span>ENDER MYSTERY <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>EastEnders drops hint about Christmas murder victim with &#8216;telling comment&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said: &quot;There are some actors on there that are still very much engaged in trying to make things the best they can be, but for me, I felt like I was getting quite downtrodden and it wasn\u2019t getting to a place where I wanted to be. I was starting to give up, and I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t do that.&#x27;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Thom Law took over the long-standing role of Peter Beale from Ben Hardy, and has recently made a reappearance in Albert Square after it was revealed that Cindy Beale is not dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/f-sunwin160-banner-6.jpg\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/23873135\/eastenders-peter-beale-star-reason-quit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A STAR who shot to fame while playing Peter Beale on EastEnders has revealed his reason behind quitting the soap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EastEnders&#x27; 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