'Home and Away' no longer like a soap, says Robert Mammone

Home and Away's Robert Mammone has praised his show for moving away from its previous "soap style" of filming.

The Matrix Reloaded actor - Summer Bay's Dr Sid Walker - believes that the Australian serial's production values have markedly improved over the last decade.

"You don't go for 25 years without it being something decent," he told The West Australian.

"The fact that the network and the producers continually update it has kept the audience intrigued."

Mammone added: "We are filming like a regular film or TV series. We're no longer filming like a soap style of making television where you just light the s**t out of everything and point and shoot.

"People are saying to me, 'Home and Away is looking good, isn't it?' and there's no way people would have said that ten years ago."

The star's character Sid - who arrived in the Bay three years ago - is currently by the bedside of his son Dex who was injured in a recent car accident. The scenes are yet to air in the UK.