This week Sinead Tinker experiences the highs and lows of love and impending parenthood after receiving some worrying news. Will she confide in Daniel or find another shoulder to cry on? Here Rob Mallard speaks to the Blog about how oblivious Daniel is to the heartbreaking events that may lie ahead for the couple:
Is Daniel in complete bliss with Sinead at the moment?
Yes, one of the reasons why it's so easy for him to not be in the loop is because he's so caught up in how happy they both are, it's like a drug and he wants that to keep going.
Why does he decide to have a spontaneous wedding?
It’s been such a rocky way for them to get together in the first place, he sees it as do it while you can because you don’t know what else might happen. Sinead’s not very conventional so it seems to make more sense to do it's a surprise rather than do it in a traditional, conventional sense.
Is it an official wedding?
No, it’s more like a ceremony. I assume that off screen they will go to a registry office and get it done that way because Kirk hasn’t been ordained.
Everything’s going great for Daniel at the minute with the marriage and pregnancy…
Yes, he’s applying to go off and do an MA too so everything’s going really well, too well almost. A lot of bad things have happened, when him and Sinead got back together everything went rosy again. He’s love blind so everything just seems like it’s going great for him and he doesn’t notice anything else that’s going on.
Does he have an inkling before he finds out that something isn’t right?
No, he’s completely oblivious to it. He thinks (her symptoms) are just normal pregnancy stuff.
When will Daniel find out exactly what's wrong?
It won't take to long as things start to get complicated. It's hard to keep a secret like that for long. And if Sinead is in some way threatened, it's a trigger for him and he's a danger to himself. When you don’t have the love of one or both
parents you try to replace that, and Sinead did that for him. She’s precious to
him, and his mental health. If she wobbles, he doesn’t feel good. Daniel has mellowed, before he was very guarded and harsh, and judgemental. She's really mellowed and softened him up. If she's removed from that, it will sort of crystallise things again.
If it's a choice between having a baby or a healthy Sinead, what would he do?
He'd choose Sinead. They promised to be a unit, a team. He'd see anything else as a betrayal of that pact they made.
Is it tough dealing with such a potentially sad storyline?
Compared to scenes where you're just going into the Rovers saying "can I have a pint please Liz?" it's definitely more challenging. There are a lot of people watching who this has happened to, and you want to get it right.
Have you had to do a lot of research on the
upcoming storyline?
Yeah, YouTube’s a great resource, also we’ve
been working with a charity. The guy who’s story it’s drawn from, we got a lot
from him. In every workplace there are people have been through this, and they
are not always able to talk about it. I spent hours going through people’s
testimonies.
Do you prefer this kind of storyline to playing Daniel as an intellectual?
All of it's fun. You get burn out either way. If you do too much of the intellectual one-liners, you can start to feel a bit like you're just singing the alto's lines.
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