{"id":21069,"date":"2022-08-30T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1697880"},"modified":"2022-08-30T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:29:11","slug":"jaime-winstone-on-how-explosive-eastenders-flashback-impacts-phil","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/jaime-winstone-on-how-explosive-eastenders-flashback-impacts-phil\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaime Winstone on how \u201cexplosive\u201d EastEnders flashback impacts Phil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Laura Denby\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Jaime Winstone has revealed some new hints on EastEnders<\/a>\u2018 upcoming flashback episode, teasing the impact on Phil and Peggy Mitchell.<\/p>\n

Winstone portrays the younger version of Walford legend Peggy<\/a>, who was made into an iconic character by the late Dame Barbara Windsor.<\/p>\n

Next month, the BBC soap will air a special episode which takes viewers back to 1979. For the first time, we\u2019ll see Phil\u2019s father Eric Mitchell (played by George Russo)<\/a>. Eric and Peggy\u2019s marriage is struggling, and a young Phil (Daniel Delaney) and Grant (Teddy Jay) are coming of age.<\/p>\n

Secrets will be unearthed with the purpose of helping Phil in the present day to bring down DCI Keeble (Alison Newman), who seems to have a mystery motive as she drags Phil deeper into his police informant role.<\/p>\n

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The Mitchells of 1979 as they appear in EastEnders\u2019 flashback episode.<\/span><\/figcaption> BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Speaking about what fans can expect from EastEnders\u2019 trip back in time, Winstone said: \u201cEssentially, it\u2019s about a family who are being held together, and the cracks are starting to show. The boys are becoming men before Peggy\u2019s eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that it\u2019s a very eventful instalment which is designed to explore who the Mitchells became; particularly Phil and matriarch Peggy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a turbulent episode; there\u2019s a lot of stuff that goes down. There\u2019s highs and lows\u2026 There are soft moments but it\u2019s really to set up why the characters are like they are now, and why some families are broken and certain choices that were made that really shouldn\u2019t have been.\u201d<\/p>

Winstone continued: \u201cUltimately, it\u2019s about Phil and who he is today, and why and what goes down. It\u2019s this sort of moment that Peggy Mitchell becomes the Peggy Mitchell we know.\u201d<\/p>\n

The star also explained that we will see a more vulnerable Peggy as she feels the strain of ongoing life. \u201cWe do see a softer Peggy, [a] more vulnerable and slightly more tender Peggy. She\u2019s definitely trying to be the housewife; a good wife and a good mother all in one, and keeping things together.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as you\u2019ll see in the episode, the cracks start to show with the young Phil and Grant kind of shifting from boys to becoming men. There\u2019s a lot of fear and a lot of love that becomes quite explosive.\u201d<\/p>\n

EastEnders will air the flashback episode on Monday 5th September<\/a> at 7:30pm.<\/p>\n

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