Corrie actor Katie McGlynn has had her fair share of shocking and emotive stroylines over the years, but of late things have been going well for her character Sinead and boyfriend - now "husband" Daniel. Things however are about to take an emotional turn as we've seen in this week's episodes. Following the discovery of something unusual after her first baby scan, Sinead has been told to prepare herself for the possibility of it being cervical cancer. Since then she's been swept away in the romance of a pagan wedding and it looks as if it will be some time before she shares the news with father-to-be Daniel.
Katie sat down with bloggers Stevie and Sophie to chat about how the stroyline has affected her and how she's prepared for the dramatic months ahead:
What was your reaction when you were told about your character’s upcoming storyline?
I was actually over the moon. Because as an actress being challenged like that and having such a big challenging story is what you want. I was upset for Sinead but for Katie I was made up.
How did you prepare for Sinead’s pregnancy
storyline?
I met with a charity called Mummy’s Star, which is a charity that helps women who are going through what Sinead
is. Until I found out about this storyline it never even occurred to me – as
soon as someone said cancer I just assumed older people, and not young people,
especially young, pregnant women. It just never occurred to me that people have
had to go through that heartbreaking decision that Sinead will face – cancer
treatment or having a healthy baby. And if you have the treatment and you have
a termination, you probably can’t have kids again.
I spoke to a lady who had breast cancer,
she found out when she was around thirty weeks of being pregnant, so she had to
go through the chemo and the birth. When she’d had the child she had to take
her baby daughter to chemotherapy. Her take on the situation was just
heartbreaking. I don’t know how she got through it.
How was it speaking to people really going
through it?
As an actress you can old do so much, so it
was really helpful. Meeting people that are going through it just brings a
different level. The founder of the charity Mummy’s Star is the husband
of someone who was diagnosed with cervical cancer whilst pregnant. So they had
to go through it all. He was essentially Daniel’s character in real life and
when I heard his story I nearly started crying. It was heartbreaking.
I had tears in my eyes just now watching
the wedding never mind the rest of it. It must be exhausting having to act it
all out?
They can be but you just have to find ways
of taking your mind off it. During the week it’s quite difficult if you’re in
filming every day but I just try and find things to do outside of work to take
my mind off it.
It does tire you out but it has been fun.
Do you feel a sense of responsibility doing
this storyline?
Yes definitely it’s a huge responsibility. And
that’s why it’s so important to have the charity involved because there are so
many elements to it. Things like do you get hair loss? Are we using the right
terminology? How would Sinead feel at that time? So yeah I’m very grateful that
they are involved.
Sinead hasn’t yet told Daniel the truth.
Why is that?
She remembered how he was when she had the
abortion. So the last things she wants is to crush Daniel’s world. She sees him
for who he really is. So she’s had to go through this process on her own. The
last thing she wants is to see the love of her life go through this who process
again.
So she wants to find out what’s going on.
If it is cancer. She wants to make decisions for herself before she gets anyone
else involved. She knows if Daniel gets involved he’ll put Sinead first and not
necessarily the baby, and she doesn’t know if she wants to do that. Sinead has
tunnel vision at the moment where all she’s thinking about is the child. Her
goal in life is to have a family.
Sinead’s torment continues on this Friday’s
Coronation Street.
This could be your exit storyline. Is it?
It could be! I don’t know anything. It’s
going to be a long, long road so...we’ll see what happens.
@StevieDawson
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