Sheridan Smith now fears for own son after intense new ITV drama No Return changed outlook

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ITV drama No Return, made her think a little harder about what she'd do in that situationThe tale follows devastated mum Kathy, whose 16-year-old son is arrested in Turkey after being accused of sexually assaulting another boy.And after reading the "powerful" script, Sheridan was left in floods of tears.She explained: "I've never been to a read-through like the one for this.

It was so powerful."I mean, I cried all the way through."I read it and was gripped - I had to know what happened."It gave me that jelly belly feeling of 'what would you do in that situation?'"She added: "They’re just ordinary people in an extraordinary situation and Kathy was an amazing lead role."The TV star continued to tell The Mirror that it's completely different playing these kind of roles now she's a mum herself."Playing roles before I had Billy to playing ones now I’ve had him, is totally different," she said."People had said you can’t understand the protectiveness and the overwhelming fear when you have a child and, he’s not even two yet, but I feel it."I hope it will resonate with the audience, they’ll be feeling all the angst as well."It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.

I love playing protective mums like that. Kathy is a lioness."Perhaps one of the more "intense" character she's played, Sheridan has previously appeared as the neighbour of Shannon Matthews' mother Karen in The Moorside and the mum of serial killer Stephen Port’s first victim Anthony Walgate, in Four Lives.Sheridan said: "It’s very different doing real-life - you’d think that was harder than doing fictional but this particularly was somehow tougher I think, more of a challenge."There are light moments in it but it is high angst and when you’re doing that for three months.