Coronation Street Blog: Amy Cudden interview: Trouble for Becky Swain

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Amy Cudden interview: Trouble for Becky Swain

The week starts with Carla being unsure about leaving Lisa alone with Becky. Do you think Becky is a threat to Lisa and Carla’s relationship?

If you combine the habit of Lisa loving Becky, because that's a habit that's still in her, with Becky being absolutely obsessed and driven to be with her family, it's like a primal life drive for her, she has to be with them, yeah, it's a threat, but if you look at the person that's being threatened – we're talking about Carla Connor! They don't come tougher. So, what that means is that we get this really, really fun tension between two very determined women fighting over the same love. So, yeah, I think she's a threat, but that threat is coming at a woman who is extremely resilient and extremely tough.

Can you tell us about the drama that unfolds when Betsy uploads a video of Becky on social media?

One of Becky's strategies to soften Lisa and to ingratiate herself back into her family is to make them laugh. To clown for them and make them giggle, and to bring the lightness and the playfulness to the relationship. And it's born out of that, they all let their guards down, they all have a really good laugh together, and Betsy innocently takes a video. It does put Becky in a certain amount of danger, but I also think that Becky isn't above slightly manipulating her daughter into thinking that maybe she's made a bigger problem than she actually has. I don't think it's great that Becky's image is out there, it compromises her, but it's also weirdly useful for her to be able to play on Betsy and Lisa’s guilt a bit. Her default action is to manipulate people; she plays the room that she's in. And if there is a sense that people are feeling guilty for having dropped her in it then, no doubt, she is going to, some extent, take advantage of that.

Costello causes trouble for Betsy and Betsy ends up in a cell. How does Becky feel about that?

She's obviously concerned; she doesn't want her daughter to be in trouble. But I think, also, Becky's been living outside of the law for four years now, she's been away in Alicante, I don't think she is troubled by what she might have to do to help her daughter out. So, I think, in a way, I’d say Lisa is very rules oriented, Becky less so. Becky's immediate go-to is, ‘What can I do to get my daughter out of this situation?’ And knowing that she'll probably be able to do something. She’s genuinely concerned about what her daughter is going through emotionally, but she knows that she’ll be able to do something about it.

How does Becky react to Costello threatening her to disappear?

There is a small, quiet voice in Becky's head that's saying, ‘Do you know what? You might have to step away, you might have to go and leave your family to get on without you,’ but I think Becky's working really, really hard to ignore that voice. I think she thinks, ‘Yeah, okay, I might be getting them in a bit of danger, but I can also fix it.’ She's got this absolute grandiose complex, ‘Yep, whatever trouble I cause, I can definitely get us out of it. I can fix everything because they're my family.’

Glenda Young

Bestselling novelist published by Headline