Perdita
04-10-2008, 18:05
Former Home & Away star Bobby Morley has claimed that the soap's producers treated him like a "meat puppet".
The actor finished filming his role as Drew Curtis on the Aussie show earlier this year. He has since landed a lead part in The Strip, a police drama series.
"It's nice to be in a show where it's not based on taking your shirt off," Bobby told the Herald Sun. "That was one thing that got me down [in Home & Away]. If that's all I am - a meat puppet - then I don't know that I want to keep doing it."
Asked why he quit the soap after two years, he replied: "It wasn't a good place to be in. Home & Away is a great place to learn, but it's a machine and it can chew people up and spit them out. I stepped out not really caring whether I had another job."
Morley credited his new TV role for reinstating his love for acting following his experience on Home & Away.
"I've got a little bit of a career going and I don't want to lose it," he said. "I never really cared about it before now."
The actor finished filming his role as Drew Curtis on the Aussie show earlier this year. He has since landed a lead part in The Strip, a police drama series.
"It's nice to be in a show where it's not based on taking your shirt off," Bobby told the Herald Sun. "That was one thing that got me down [in Home & Away]. If that's all I am - a meat puppet - then I don't know that I want to keep doing it."
Asked why he quit the soap after two years, he replied: "It wasn't a good place to be in. Home & Away is a great place to learn, but it's a machine and it can chew people up and spit them out. I stepped out not really caring whether I had another job."
Morley credited his new TV role for reinstating his love for acting following his experience on Home & Away.
"I've got a little bit of a career going and I don't want to lose it," he said. "I never really cared about it before now."