Kara Tointon on filming away from home: 'I don't know how actors can leave their children'
ok.co.ukKara Tointon has opened up about being away from her kids to film Channel 5's Too Good To Be True, with the ex-EastEnders star admitting that it was a difficult experience.
The mum-of-two shares Frey, five, and Helly, three, with ex-fiance Marius Jensen.The couple split up in 2022 after six years together.
Kara, 40, is starring in Channel 5's latest drama as Rachel - a penniless single mum with a troubled past and a violent ex-boyfriend - acting opposite Downton Abbey star Allen Leech.
But unlike Rachel, Kara didn't get to bring her kids to work. “Rachel takes her son to work with her. I left my sons behind in England when I filmed Too Good To Be True in Dublin and that was hard,” she said. "The longest period we had apart was two weeks and I really don’t know how actors who have young families can commit themselves to back-to-back projects, the kind which involve working away from home for weeks even months on end. "I just couldn’t spend that much time apart from my boys.Two weeks was bad enough, I’d miss them far too much.” Kara did get a chance to FaceTime her sons when making the edge-of-your-seat thriller. “Every morning, before we filmed scenes for the day, I would talk to them while I was having my make-up applied," she said. "The people in the make-up department got to know my children really well!” In the upcoming drama, Kara's character Rachel works long hours as a hotel cleaner to pay the bills, whilst quizzing her 11-year-old Liam - a genius with a high IQ - as she changes beds.
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