EastEnders: Sid Owen and Patsy Palmer reveal if they’d go back
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Sid Owen, 49, has explained how he became close to Al Pacino, 81, when the pair worked together back in the 80s. The EastEnders star details how he developed a bond with the Scarface actor while filming his debut film role aged 13.
He claims Al even “considered adopting him” because he had no parents.
Sid’s father David was an alcoholic who left the family home when the star was just six years old, while his mother Joan died from cervical cancer in 1979 when she was 35 and Sid eight.
The actor was raised by his aunt Carol and her husband Michael.
Sid revealed the first audition involved him reacting to the line “I have to tell you your mum’s died” – which brought back the raw emotion of his mother’s death, and cemented his role in the film as Ned Dobb, the son of Al’s character.
In an extract of his book Rags To Ricky published in The Sun, he writes: “When I started on Revolution, there was a lot for us to work through together to make our father-and-son relationship convincing, so we got into a routine where every day I’d go to his trailer and we’d run lines, whatever we were doing that day.
“He knew I had no parents and was from a difficult background, though we didn’t really talk about it.
“He didn’t have kids of his own then and I found out later he had considered adopting me.
“One time he said: ‘Come out to New York when this is finished.'”
Sid revealed the pair have stayed in touch, with the soap star taking his first serious girlfriend to stay with Al and his then-partner Diane Keaton – and still catch up “every now and then”.
Revolution, which cost £19 million to make, was a box office bomb, grossing only £258,000.
Sid also credited acting for saving him from a life as a “jailbird” and said he found his purpose after joining a drama group for children in Islington, close to his home.
As a child, Sid had already got involved in burglaries and was given a warning he would be prosecuted aged 10 when he and a friend broke into a school.
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After that wake-up call, Sid downgraded his criminal activities to shoplifting, and said acting brought a stop to the theft altogether.
Discovering a love and natural talent for acting, he landed his first role in a TV series called The Further Adventures Of Oliver Twist when he was eight, before the big screen followed.
Sid has detailed his poverty-stricken childhood, which included his dad “robbing banks and beating up the kids” in further extracts from his memoir.
He wrote about his difficult upbringing, which included an absent father and a terminally ill mother.
In 1988, he was cast in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Ricky Butcher, son of popular character Frank Butcher (played by Mike Reid).
His character’s relationships with Sam Mitchell (Danniella Westbrook) and Bianca Jackson (Patsy Palmer) became popular in the 1990s.
He appeared regularly on the show until April 2000 and made a series of cameos up until 2012.
He has now settled down with Victoria, a restaurant worker, and told the same publication: “We first dated 23 years ago, and have been dating for the last year. It’s the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m finally settling down.”
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