Actor Jonny Freeman of EastEnders, who plays Reiss Colwell, spoke up about his character’s murderous actions in response to a recent development involving Debbie Colwell on the BBC serial opera.
The deadly deeds of Jonny Freeman’s character Reiss Colwell were just revealed, and it has nothing to do with his history.
Following remarks on Reiss and Debbie Colwell’s marriage, many questioned if Reiss had ever mistreated her. Debbie’s mother stated in her will on Monday night that she had intended to divorce him just before she suffered a stroke a few years ago. It was made public that Debbie didn’t love Reiss and was miserable in her marriage.
She left her husband nothing and hinted she thought he was creepy, just like Debbie’s mother had claimed. Brenda’s comments about there being a darkness with Reiss left many wondering if he had caused his wife’s stroke or maybe he had been violent.
Naturally, in a subsequent episode, Reiss murdered Debbie at the assisted living facility; his fiancée Sonia Fowler is presently facing charges for the crime. However, actor Jonny implied that there was nothing sinister going on while the two were together in an interview with The Mirror from the Inside Soap Awards.
He suggested Reiss had no idea how Debbie felt or that she was going to leave him, and this was not what led to him killing her. Amid his money issues and the care home bills leaving him in debt, it doesn’t seem this was the motive for the killing either.
Instead, actor Jonny hinted that Reiss killed Debbie out of “mercy” and because he thought it’s what she would want. He told us: “I advocate for Reiss as he lost all of his money paying for her care, so in his mind he’s done right by her. Maybe not by killing her but even then I think in his mind, it was consensual and it was mercy, however mad that might be.”
Jonny also revealed all about Reiss’ reaction to the secret that Debbie was unhappy in her marriage and was planning on leaving him. He said: “No he didn’t know she didn’t feel the same way. think that’s been the worst of all of it, the worst thing that’s happened to him.
“He’s been involved in a complicated love story with one woman in a coma for many years, and that’s when he finds out his wife didn’t feel the same way. So in many ways out of all the things that have happened to Reiss in the past weeks, finding that out is the hardest thing to hear but he’s under a huge amount of pressure so we’ll have to see if there is a way out for him, but it doesn’t look good.”
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