Claire Sweeney - 'I had a baptism of fire on Coronation Street, this role is life-changing'
ok.co.ukClaire Sweeney was over the moon to win a dream part on her favourite TV soap Coronation Street on her birthday - and then she got a gift of a scene with Dame Maureen Lipman.
Claire is playing Cassandra Plummer, the long-lost mother of Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and the estranged daughter of Evelyn Plummer (Dame Maureen Lipman) and has been a fan of the soap her whole life.
She makes her debut on Wednesday 28th June. Brimming with excitement and nerves, Claire was relieved when she didn’t have to remember any lines on her first day and could just soak in the atmosphere.
However, her second day was a different story. “The first day I didn’t say anything but on my second day I had a massive scene – a 14-page two-hander with Dame Maureen Lipman – so that was a baptism of fire!” says Claire. “That was my first time speaking and I was very nervous but I was very prepared. “I didn’t need to worry because Maureen was so kind to me that she’d even taken me out to dinner the night before with castmate David Neilson, who plays Roy Cropper.
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