Samantha Womack has said she finds aspects of her role in The Girl On The Train’s stage adaptation “brutally painful”, but is relishing her return to the West End.
The actress, 46, plays Rachel Watson in the thriller based on Paula Hawkins’s bestselling novel and the film starring Emily Blunt.
Womack, who lives with her husband and their two teenage children in Bedfordshire, said: “The main thing about Rachel is she can’t have children. The idea that she’s watching this perfect life of a family that actually had a child, that seems very brutally painful to me, and that’s the part of the story that always upsets me.”
Womack played Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders over 10 years, before the character was drowned in her wedding dress on New Year’s Day 2017.
She added: “I’m coming back into an area I know so well ... It’s a wonderful thing seeing your face on a billboard. I like the immediacy of theatre."
