Call The Midwife's Olly Rix Reveals Why Trixie & Matthew's Wedding Was Real For Him! | Lorraine

This weekend, millions of Call the Midwife fans will finally get to see Trixie, marry Matthew. You're so funny. Onni Rix is here who plays Matthew. Of course, this is the big moment. Yeah. Now, you went to extraordinary lengths, I'm told, on the day of filming this, to make it, I mean, as real for you as the groom is. It could be.

Tell us about that. I find it mind-blowing. Yeah, I did what I could. I mean, it was a busy day and lots and lots of people in the church and there wasn't much time to put a plan in place, but I did everything I could to make sure that I didn't see Helen before she arrived on set. I had no idea what the dress was going to look like. I spoke to the guys dropping us down there and I said, look, please make sure we don't cross paths. I don't want to see her until I see her.

Walking down the aisle and amazingly, it worked and it was a bit of a sort of heart-stopping moment. I think that's astonishing that you did that. So, when we see on Sunday night, the moment, presumably, the shot of you turning around as Matthew and seeing Trixie, that is a. I mean, that's not rehearsed. That's how you reacted. Yeah. And was it emotional? For you? Did you feel it? Yeah, for sure.

I mean, I think I felt a lot of responsibility towards Helen and Trixie. Helen's been doing the show for over a decade. Yes. You know, she's a really much loved character and I just wanted to do what I could to sort of safeguard the day and make sure it was about her and a good day for her. And do you find that in, you know, when you were wondering about the Olly Rex, that people just go, listen, make sure you look after her? Yeah, for sure. She's our treasure. If you stop a bit, the first couple of series when they couldn't work me out or whether or not they were going to stick around, I get a lot of warnings.

People are just excited now. And now it's interesting, isn't it? Because I think what. It moves into the 70s, doesn't it, I think, in the next series. And you're obviously in it. What I find fascinating is, you know, how society changed around their preconceptions and their biases and so on. I wonder whether, because Matthew is a very well healed, he's well to do, isn't he, whether. Is there any tension, do you think, between, you know, because often women did give up their jobs once they married and so on.

Do you know if that's going to be explored in any way? Well, I mean, of the two of them, Matthew's the one who's given up his job already. Yeah. He's a barrister and, you know, he's not practicing and hasn't been since his wife died in the series he's introduced in. So, I mean, she's the one working and he's the one. Interesting. Not working. I don't really think that's going to change.

No. I don't think it's what their relationship's about, sort of, hanging everything up and putting slippers on. Yeah, yeah. And I know that, as you say for Helen George, being in the church, she was actually. It's one of those rare occasions where the entire cast that she's worked with for a decade are all in the same scene at the same time. Yeah. So, how was she? Could you tell that, you know, Trixie herself was feeling a lot as.

And Helen herself was feeling it on the day. Yeah, I think so. It's a beautiful church. I think it was called St Luke's. It's in Chelsea. And, you know, it's always lovely when you get all the cast together. Yes.

It's a beautiful church. But people stand up to give readings and do the things you do at weddings. Wow. It must have felt as close to real as possible. Yeah, it was a dry run. I've never been married before, but I feel like I've gone and heard some good parts about it. You feel like you've done it now.

Yeah. And what's fascinating is, and this, you know, I know Helen George has talked about this, but the very first time you had to have your romantic kiss was the least romantic. I mean, you were talking about it, it was just awful. Tell us about what happened. Yeah. I think she said it was the least sexy romantic thing she'd ever done. Yes.

Well done, Ollie. I feel like. It's a pretty. I've had worse reviews. Just tell us what happened. I think it was because we had this massive sort of perspex sheep between us. And we were still filming with social distancing and all the restrictions from the pandemic, so we sort of kiss it like, to suck a fish.

Oh, you had to kiss the perspex green. We literally sort of blunt off against the screen. That is so gross. It was just bizarre. It was so gross. Yeah, hopefully I won't have to do that ever again. And have you seen the final episode? Have you seen the full.

So on Sunday, will you be watching it? I think I probably will, yeah. I don't normally watch things. Because it's difficult to watch yourself back, I guess. Once you've done it, you've done it. Yeah, it's not yours anymore. It belongs to the audience. It really does.

But I think I will this time. Well, congratulations on making Trixie happy. It's what we all wanted. Call the Moodwife continues on Sunday, 8pm on BBC One. Thanks so much. It's lovely to meet you.

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