"I'm out of it forever. I didn't get killed or anything. We both [he and his on-screen partner, Syed Masood] left to lead a much better life out of the Square."
"When I was in EastEnders, Marc Elliott and I would shoot bedroom scenes, but only one of us was ever allowed to have our shirt off. Because we were a gay couple."
"You see, any other scenes in any other soaps, or any other TV dramas, heterosexual couples are allowed to show as much skin as they like, but we were not allowed to do that, and that was recently."
An actor played Christian Clarke on EastEnders from 2008 to 2012 and left the series in 2012 to care for a mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The production imposed a restriction that male same-sex couples could not both be shirtless in bedroom scenes, permitting only one partner to remove his top. The character shared a romantic storyline and marriage with Syed Masood, and the couple departed for America. The actor perceives a persistent glass ceiling for gay performers, has sometimes returned to the role, and is involved with a new play about gay actors in 1950s Hollywood. A public recollection of the policy included a humorous remark about which partner took his top off.
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