EastEnders actress Charlie Brooks admits it is hard to get other work

'When Janine was a alcoholic and drug user fans would shout: ‘Can I have a line, can I have a sh*g?’.”"

Actress Charlie Brooks says she will never shake off the role of Janine Butcher and will struggle to ever find other acting roles.
The EastEnders star, who returned to the show last night, admitted she finds it hard to get other work when she is not in the soap.
Charlie, 31, said: “I think there is typecasting and you probably do have to convince people that you can come out of a soap that you can be other things and be somebody else and it can be tough for us, but it is hard for an audience to see past it, especially for a character like mine, to see you as anything but Janine because I’ve played her for so long.”
Charlie says people are so used to her being Janine that she gets drunken fans come up to her in the street asking for sex and drugs.
Asked on Channel4’s Chatty Man if she gets shouted at in the street, she added: “I don’t get it so much now that I am older and we just have dinner parties. I have got to that age, but yeah the classic lines and when she was a alcoholic and drug user they’d shout: ‘Can I have a line, can I have a sh*g?’.”

The Butch is back: Charlie has returned to EastEnders

Fans of EastEnders saw Janine back on screen tonight, once again threatening to cause more trouble in Albert Square.
On Janine’s return, I’m A Celebrity winner Charlie said: “She is coming back a high-powered business woman and she’s coming back to get her daughter and she’s got that on her mind and that only. So Michael Moon is in for a fight. She is back as a bitch and that’s when I love playing her. It’s like don’t mess with me. It is really fun.
“I’ve been back for six or seven weeks now and it’s been really great and great to see everyone. It’s nice to have a break because you come back all refreshed.
“I love playing her because she is diverse but I just don’t want people to get tired of her and I don’t want to get tired of playing her.
“They do work us really long hours and especially when you’re heavily story lined sometimes, you get tired. But it’s great to be back as Janine.”