You were quite young when you started playing Todd in Coronation Street. Can you be ready for the amount of attention you get in such a high profile role? I think I knew what I was doing. Unless you are really young you kind of have an idea of what is going to happen. I like the attention when people say “hi” and they think that you’re doing a great job, but it is a pain when you are in the supermarket and just want to buy loo roll and leave and then people stop you…but the one thing that gets my back up is if I’m eating and someone wants to talk to me!! How do you learn to deal with that?
Everyone deals with it in a different way. When I was in Corrie, obviously that is when the attention is at its most – every night you are on in 13 or 14 million people’s homes, you’re in their living room and they think they know you. But I’m very friendly with people. So what sort of reaction did you get from viewers towards Todd – especially towards the end when Sarah Louise lost the baby? Did viewers change in their sympathy towards him, do you think? I don’t know. I’m not really bothered about that because it’s your character not me, I’m just doing my job. Whatever they think about the character that’s fine, it doesn’t affect me You worked on a couple of episodes of Dr Who last year. I suppose you are too young to remember the original series? Yes, a bit too young, although obviously I knew that it was a national institution. I like meeting the Dr Who fans because some of them are weird and some of them are very intelligent. It’s great because you get people waiting outside the stage door and you get the dads and now their sons are into it, so it is a very father and son thing and I like that. Is there any chance we’ll see Adam on Dr Who again, do you think? I don’t think so. I’m still in contact with the writers and producers, we text each other sometimes, but I don’t think so. I haven’t asked them, because if they want me back they’ll ask me, and they haven’t! I’m happy just to watch it now. |
