Emmerdale actress Paige Sandhu has revealed she's already filming new roles, following her exit as Meena Jutla on the ITV soap.
Paige revealed all on what she hoped to do next, after bowing out of her role as serial killer Meena this week.
Meena was sentenced to at least 75 years in prison for the murders of Leanna Cavanagh, Ben Tucker and Andrea Tate, leaving her horrified after she believed she would get away with her crimes.
Her final scenes saw Meena sobbing in her cell, amid predictions she will return for the soap's 50th anniversary - despite it now being claimed this is not going to happen.
But actress Paige could be back on screen very soon, after telling The Mirror and other press about some filming she was involved in.
Revealing the types of roles she would like to tackle next, Paige confirmed there was already something on the horizon.
She said: "I definitely want to continue to play baddies. I love baddies, I think they are so much fun to play.
"But the thing that is really fun and I wanna continue with is playing characters who are wildly different from me, where you can have a lot of fun, they’re really challenging and fulfilling, where it doesn't really matter if it’s a baddie or a goodie.
"Just as long as I feel connected to them and they’re fun and challenging, they’re written really well, the storyline is amazing, so I’d love to do both."
On what was already on the cards, she teased: "I do actually I'm starting filming something, so that will be cool and there are other things that are potentials, they're all goodies funny enough."
It comes after soap boss Kate Brooks explained why they went for a full justice ending for Meena, and didn't kill her off like others predicted would be the case.
Kate told us, of hopes fans would like the twist: "I really do, I really hope so, we could have killed Meena off but I like how we punish her and how weak she leaves the show.
"It's very fitting to her character, we take away the one thing Meena craves in the whole world, which is attention and notoriety, so once that is removed from Meena, I don’t know what she has got left.
"She very quickly realises that this is the worst fate imaginable, it’s worse than death or anything else."
Kate added: "They've waited quite a while to see this happen, with a serial killer story like this it can be quite Marmite but ultimately people love to hate Meena."
The soap producer also addressed whether there was temptation to keep the character on the show, despite her many crimes.
She explained: "Oh yeah, the amount of story Meena has given us has just been ridiculous, so of course there is always that temptation.
"Somebody who is capable of such heinous crimes and not showing any remorse for those crimes, they can't stay long in the village.
"They can't continue down that path because there is nowhere else for them to go. We knew we had to give people a sense of justice and not just viewers, but also for our characters who are left because if they didn't receive that sense of justice or feel Meena had been punished accordingly to those crimes, there is no way we could have moved them on as characters.
"We ultimately have got to let Meena’s fate rest in the hands of the Soap Gods and they need to punish her accordingly and I think and hope viewers will be satisfied."
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Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7:30pm on ITV, with an hour-long episode on Thursdays.
