Julie said: "The episodes this week are just beautiful."
"It's only when the consultant talks about Roy that she falls to peices." And then we see the consultant asking Hayley: "You mentioned a husband, can you rely on him for sumpport?"
"Oh yes, you can", we said on our sofa, last night when we watched this scene.
Julie talks about filming the powerful scenes between Hayley, Sylvia and Roy when she tells them she's got pancreatic cancer. "The words hung in the air on the set and everyone was a little bit quiet afterwards because it's something that affects everyone. Corrie does that well, it makes something universal, personal, like the transgender storyline."
We then see a scene of Hayley telling Roy she doesn't want anyone knowing about the cancer. Julie says these scenes are "the best and my favourite five episodes I've ever done. Hayley being irritated by Roy, the Sylvia stuff undercutting everything and at the end Roy and Hayley coming together and talking about what to do in the future. That was pretty hard to do, and it'll be pretty hard to watch.
"The storyline honours their relationship and their love story, it's fitting and it's proper and it matters, it's what people are living with every single day and I think it's important to tell those stories."
Watch the video here.
And Julie Hesmondhalgh is promoting the petition to provide more funding and awareness for pancreatic Cancer to aid
long overdue progress in earlier detection and, ultimately, improved
survival rates. Help Julie get 20,000 signatures - Hayley's legacy - sign the petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48389
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2 comments:
The videos only play in the UK. Any chance you can work some magic for the overseas gang? Thanks!
If it's the best of Julie's work then this storyline and exit should be one for the record books indeed! So sad.
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