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Holby City spoilers: Could star make a return to Casualty spin-off series?


BBC medical drama Holby City has been running for 20 years with the show seeing cast members coming and going over time. Some characters have also moved from Holby City to parent series Casualty and vice-versa. However, could we see some former faces coming back to Holby City in the future?

Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Adam Astill – better known as Dan Hamilton – shared his thoughts about making a possible return to Holby City.

“I had a fantastic time there, a really nice bunch there and my character had a really lovely arc,” he said.

The actor went on to say: “If there was an opportunity to go back for a cracking story then absolutely.

“I wouldn’t want to go back into it for the sake of it.

“Although having said that, a regular job is not to be sniffed it.”

He added: “Also, it’s just down the road from me, so it would be handy.”

Astill starred as consultant Dan Hamilton in the soap from 2011 to 2012 after he was introduced in the episode Blue Valentine.

During his time on the soap, Astill’s character had some pretty explosive storylines including a relationship with ward sister Chrissie Williams (Tina Hobley) and a professional rivalry with registrar Antoine Malick (Jimmy Akingbola).

However, the star is now busy with a brand new project in the form of independent film Rupert, Rupert & Rupert in which he plays a very different kind of doctor.

Astill stars as psychotherapist Angus, who is trying to treat his patient and lead Rupert (played by Sandy Batchelor), an out-of-work actor who has spontaneous angry outbursts.

Rupert’s condition means it’s very difficult for him to get parts, leading him to seek help from Angus.

Things take a turn for the better though when Rupert lands the lead in a play called The Fatal Blasphemy of Jeremiah Ulysses’s Boundless Rage, where his outbursts are actually helpful.

But Angus is worried about Rupert and how the pressure of the play could have an effect on his mental health.

On playing Angus, Astill said it was a very different character to his role on Holby City but he was glad there was less medical jargon to get “my head and my lips around”.

He explained: “Like Holby City, the process is massively condensed. What happens in the film over the course of a few weeks, whereas the process of that therapy would take months, probably years.

“Similarly in a surgery scene, at Holby General you’ve got 15 minutes to do a heart transplant and those procedures take many, many hours.”

Astill said that an element of “artistic licence” had to be taken with both Holby City and Rupert, Rupert & Rupert.

He is now working on a list of other projects including Andy’s Safari Adventures for CBeebies as well as rehearsing for the play Brexit which will be returning to the King’s Head Theatre in Islington.

Brexit was written by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky and the first production was in autumn last year and will be back due to popular demand.

“It was run at Edinburgh previous to that and it’s been a rip-roaring success,” Astill said, who portrays a shadowy figure in the background whispering things to the prime minster.

He continued: “And thanks to the government efforts – or lack of them – very little has changed and the play still remains incredibly relevant.

“I’m looking forward to getting back to the King’s Head and doing that again. That’s a really fun comedic but also tragic play but there’s a lot of laughs in it.”

Rupert, Rupert & Rupert is available on digital and in select cinemas now

Holby City airs on BBC One on Tuesdays at 8pm



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