Actor says he wants to leave the show ‘respectfully’, given his character Mike Young bought a home on Ramsay Street in the show’s finale
Guy Pearce has confirmed he will make an appearance in the upcoming Neighbours reboot, after Amazon swooped in to revive the long-running Australian soap.
The LA Confidential and Memento star began playing Mike Young in 1986 and appeared in more than 400 episodes over three years. Along with former Neighbours stars Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Margot Robbie, Pearce returned for what was thought to be In the 90-minute episode, Mike was reunited with his former love interest Jane Harris, played by Annie Jones, with the pair buying a house on Ramsay Street., Pearce said that given his character was now living on the soap’s famous street, he would appear in the new season out of respect for the show.
“Annie and I called each other, ‘What do we do now, because we’re living in the street,’” Pearce said. “And she said, ‘Well I’m all right because I’m on the show anyway, but what are you going to do?’ I said, ‘I don’t know.’ So we’re in the process of working it out.“Obviously, if I’m going to extricate myself from the show, I want to do it respectfully. I wasn’t just gonna go, ‘Well, bad luck. You had your chance, that was it,’ you know. So there may be a little appearance or two, shall we say.
The soap was set to finish after a 37-year run, when the UK’s Channel 5 decided to stop airing it. But three months later,
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