EastEnders' Jake Wood & Anna Acton lift lid on Max's romance with DC Summerhayes (VIDEO)

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EastEnders star Jake Wood says viewers will be questioning Max Branning's motives for getting involved with DC Summerhayes, who's investigating Lucy Beale's murder.

The romance is about to develop in the BBC1 soap and Anna Acton, who plays Summerhayes, told What's on TV at the British Soap Awards: "She could get in a lot of trouble if she's found out, but there's a clear chemistry between them which you sort of notice early on and I think there's a genuine affection between them and I think they're both lost souls, lonely, and they both tap into each other at the right time. But yeah, it's not very smart of her to get involved with Max Branning."

Jake added: "We haven't much on screen of that at the moment... But yeah, obviously Max gets involved with Summerhayes, who's their family liaison officer, played by the lovely Anna Acton, but yeah, it's great, we get to question Max's motives about why he's getting involved with her. But you'll have to wait and see..."

Watch our chat with EastEnders' Jake Wood and Anna Acton:

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.