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Quick Chat with Hollyoaks “newcomer” Tomi Ade (DeMarcus ) about new knife crime storyline, acting and more

Quick Chat with Hollyoaks “newcomer” Tomi Ade (DeMarcus ) about new knife crime storyline, acting and more

Ade is an English Actor known for Hollyoaks straight after graduating from the Brit school he landed his first and only role as DeMarcus Westwood in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks playing the son of Richard Blackwood who plays (Felix). Recently DeMarcus has found himself in trouble which involves a knife crime storyline. ALT caught up with Ade for a quick chat.

DEMARCUS MAKES IT CLEAR TO PEARL AND FELIX WHAT HE WANTS

What was it like joining Hollyoaks in the middle of a really big storyline also knowing that Richard Blackwood was going to play your father?

I felt really privileged to come in at the time I did. I was lucky to join in The Black to Front Project episode, which of course was a predominantly a Black episode. There were good vibes from the start, I think I definitely got it easy in terms of just comfortability and really just getting used to the craft because I mean, this was my first job coming out of school.

I was a bit nervous starting somewhere new, I’d never been to Liverpool, up North.  It was so different for me, but a lot of the people I made friends with and got close to were those people on the episode, who were all from London and out of coincidence all black. So we could relate on a lot of things.

Shooting that first episode felt more like a team building exercise, if anything, it really wasn’t work. And so the word I can really say is just privileged and, very, very fortunate.

WALTER IS BACK BUT SOMETHING IS DISTRACTING DEMARCUS

Hollyoaks is now streaming first on All 4, with new episodes dropping every weekday morning. The show airs Monday to Friday on Channel 4 at 6.30pm and on E4 at 7pm. The episodes begin airing on July 15th. Selected omnibus episodes are available via Amazon Prime Video

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