Beverley Callard discusses ‘intimidating’ first day on Coronation Street

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Coronation Street star Beverley Callard has said starting out as an actress on Coronation Street was an “intimidating” experience.

The actress, who joined the soap in 1989 to play Liz McDonald, said her family had watched the programme “from the very beginning”.

She added she knew the characters as a viewer “so your first day is very intimidating”. Callard said: “Certainly it was such a matriarchal show, with the women being the strength of the show. “So when I went in, I looked at the other women around my age like Deirdre, Sally, Gail, and I just thought ‘I have to make Liz different to them, because they’re all so iconic’. “I didn’t want my character to compete with them in any way.