EXCLUSIVE: The star’s followers actually need to see her again on the cobbles.
Faye Brooks is pleased that her Coronation Road character Kate Connor wasn’t killed off (Picture: Getty)
Coronation Road legend Faye Brookes, who performed Kate Connor within the long-running ITV cleaning soap from October 2015 to September 2019, says she is pleased that the chance to return to the present is there, as her character wasn’t killed off. Nevertheless, she has no fast plans to make a comeback. Talking solely to Categorical.co.uk, the 38-year-old admitted followers nonetheless ask her if she’s going to ever be again on the cobbles.
“I get plenty of, ‘why is Kate not coming again?'” she laughed, talking throughout a break from rehearsals for her newest mission, the play Double Double, which is working from April 28 till Could 30 within the Barn Theatre, Cirencester, Cotswolds. “I believe that is a very pretty factor to have them need me to come back again to Coronation Road, as a result of I [Kate] did not die. I am nonetheless alive and travelling, and people doorways left open, and likewise that is a chance available in itself,” she stated.
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Faye Brooks is reuniting with fellow Corrie alum Daniel Brocklebank for her newest play (Picture: Provided)
“However I do love having the ability to play different characters, and I actually am persevering with to stretch myself as an artist, and I need to preserve doing that.
“I believe going again…sure, that door is open, [and] if that’s in my journey, nice. However I like the truth that I’m persevering with with new tasks, new characters, the followers are simply as supportive,” she smiled.
Kate nonetheless has household in Weatherfield, and her sister Carla Connor (Alison King) has only recently married on display screen, so it isn’t implausible she could also be requested again sooner or later, because it was one in all her first jobs, and he or she confesses she may be very grateful to the present.
“Coronation Road catapulted my profession, so I by no means condemn it. I all the time rejoice it. And I believe that is what the followers are doing for me on the identical time. It is fairly a stunning factor. I have been so fortunate to have gained such a stunning following from my time at Coronation Road, they usually’ve been nothing however supportive,” she stated.
Within the meantime, she is teaming up with one other Corrie alum Daniel Brocklebank, who just lately departed the position of vicar Billy Mayhew after 11 years, for the thriller Double Double.
Described as My Honest Woman meets Dial M For Homicide, the two-hander sees Daniel taking part in homeless and tacky Duncan, who’s the doppelganger of Faye’s character, Philippa’s late husband.
When she finds him dwelling on the streets and hatches a plan, as her husband wanted to be alive to obtain his multi-million-pound inheritance
Surprisingly, though they had been on the cobblestones on the identical time, this marks the primary time they’ve ever correctly carried out collectively. “We truly by no means actually labored with one another at Coronation Road,” Kate reveals. “There is a solid of 80-odd folks, and regardless that Dan was all the time there, we weren’t essentially collectively. I believe I used to be pouring him a pint within the Rovers,” she giggles.
Double Double, starring Daniel Brocklebank and Faye Brooks, is working on the Barn Theatre, Cirencester, from April 28 till Could 30, with tickets accessible right here.
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