EastEnders’ Brian Conley says show parrot ‘keeps swearing' and has to be removed from set
ok.co.ukEastEnders star Brian Conley has revealed that he's having issues with one particular co-star on set - his character's parrot Jasper.The soap star told OK!
that Oscar the parrot, who plays Rocky's pet bird Jasper, swears so much on set that it's been removed from scenes on some occasions. "It’s been well documented that it does swear a lot.
Just between us, we brought this parrot on and I said to the director, 'Is it going to make a lot of noise?' And then the trainer lady came on and she said 'No, because it’s a new environment it’s going to be very quiet.' "So anyway, we start and it kept swearing and I do know there is an outtakes tape and I really hope to see it one day.
It was so funny that they put it together. It just kept swearing to the point where we have to pretend it’s there!" He added that his winged co-star "gets on [his] nerves" on set and has called him "every name under the sun". "I made a real point of saying I didn’t want it like a sitcom parrot, I didn’t want it saying things very clearly like it does in real life, so I think they very cleverly its voice is subtle enough," he said. "It’s called me every name under the sun and it works off script a lot, ad-libs and it upsets me.
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