It’s been all systems go for Ryan Connor since his turbulent return to the cobbles earlier this year. Now with murderous Ronan after Ryan and his family, we spoke to Ryan Prescott to find out if he can survive Ronan’s wrath...
“It was just really good to be part of the storyline, it’s got so much juice and it’s got a lot of impact”, he said. “It’s less casual and it’s a more intense kind of vibe so I was just grateful to be involved and have a part to play in it. Doing the stunts and stuff like that, obviously I did have a stunt double, his name was Alan, very talented man, lovely guy, but I also got to do some stuff myself.”
Tonight we'll see Ryan’s worst fears are realised when he finds himself with nothing between himself or Ronan’s speeding car. “I kind of got to stand on the front of the rig and they got the car up to speed and I got to throw myself at the window screen and then fall off into the little cushioned rig that they’d built around it which was absolutely fab because I love doing stuff like that; anything that’s active, challenging, then I’m in.”
Cormac’s death has had a serious effect on Ryan as he’s left struggling to deal with the consequences.
Ryan says: “He’s lost Cormac and being a close friend of his, they were just starting that relationship up again because they were friends from school and him coming in and he knows about his past and he knows about his dad.”
“[Ryan] was quite aware of the whole thing and I think that kind of gave him an edge of the reality behind it when things were starting to go wrong when Cormac passed. People didn’t really know the seriousness behind it so that’s why for weeks and weeks on set it was just panic and terror which can be exhausting at times but really, really fun.”
“He would just try and make sure his relationship with his mum is in tact and that’s where he draws most of his grounding and I think that’s where his foundation is and that being as stable as it is, you know, some of his deepest insecurities went to the fact that he’s not actually blood related to the place where he feels like home”, he explained to us on the importance of Ryan’s relationship with Michelle. “That kind of has an impact on all his choices and why he ends up in such terrible situations.”
We discussed the idea of Kym Marsh being a true Corrie matriarch, to which Ryan laughed, “Coming in with Kym as the head, it’s safety! It’s pure safety. No, she’s quite a maternal person as well. She just has that inside, that’s her instincts, you know. So being, kind of, under her wing so to speak as a son, you have that off set as well. She looks after everyone, so for me especially coming in to, not just a show, but a subculture that’s been going on fifty-odd years, it can be quite intimidating and Kym really took the edge off of that and she made it quite easy and quite fun and everyone does as well, you know.”
When asked if working on Coronation Street met his expectations, Ryan was quick to praise the soap. “I had an element of expectation of what to walk into but it was, if I’m honest, to a different scale in many ways simply because of, you know, the purpose built village and the amount of studios there are and the sheer size of the building and the sheer amount of people.”
“It can be a little bit intimidating but for me it’s kind of the same as anything I’m passionate about and really, really want to do. You’re getting to do what you love to do and you’re getting paid for it, make a living from it. They really look after you in Coronation Street, I felt that all the way through and it was a new start for me in a way. I’d been in London for nine years previous, you know, slogging away, grafting away as you do as an actor and then you get something like this which is a whole new city, whole new group of people.”
“You adapt to it like anything else and you find yourself being like, “oh yeah, this is why people really want to stay because it’s actually a fantastic place to work.” So I’m just grateful really, loads of gratitude for this phase of life.”
With Ryan about to face the harsh reality of what Ronan is capable of, will he get out alive? Make sure to catch tonight’s episodes to learn Ryan’s fate!
Sophie Williams
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