Martine McCutcheon has revealed that she sometimes felt frustrated by the unique concept of her new TV project.
The actress signed up to play housewife Susan Penwarden in soap Echo Beach, as well as a neurotic version of herself in its sister show Moving Wallpaper, which follows the programme's fictional production team.
McCutcheon has admitted that she sometimes got tired of being asked to film scenes for Moving Wallpaper on top of her work for Echo Beach.
"My only gripe was you have double the workload," Martine is quoted by the The Mirror as saying. "Just as you think 'oh brilliant, I've got the day off', the Moving Wallpaper producer would say: 'Oh, by the way, you're in the back of shot looking at your fan mail.'"
Moving Wallpaper starts tomorrow night at 9.00pm on ITV1, with Echo Beach following at 9.30pm.
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