DEMON barber!
CORRIE’S BEN PRICE TELLS US THAT HE’S LOVING NICK’S NEW BUSINESS VENTURE…
Ripping off your granny may not be a very nice thing to do, but it’s certainly done the trick for ruthless businessman Nick! Having pocketed Audrey’s £80,000, he’s now sitting pretty in the new barber shop he has opened with brother David – but while they’re technically equal partners in the business, Corrie star Ben Price tells us that there’s no doubt that his character Nick is the one who’s in control…
“Nick will always have that superior air, and I’m really trying to play that right now,” he grins. “If David had sorted it years ago, he would have had his own salon by now – but he hasn’t worked it out. Nick has come in and opened the barbers’, and is like, ‘You’re not that smart, David!’ Nick wants the business to work, and that’s what drives him.”
The brothers haven’t exactly had the smoothest of relationships, so putting them together to run a business – and one that involves using sharp instruments – is a recipe for disaster! But Ben loves playing out the tension between the siblings.
“The good thing about David as a character is he’s morally a bit suspect,” the star tells us. “He’s like, ‘Okay, you nicked the money, but now I run a barbers’’, and he can hold that over his brother. But Nick wants something else for himself – he doesn’t mind being in the factory, but he doesn’t like being beneath Carla.
“It’s family with Nick and David, so they can fight and hate each other, but they would turn on any outside influence,”
continues Ben. “It’s like a Cain and
Abel situation – it’s blood. If you have a strong family, you can do what the hell you like to each other!”
Nick may be the brains behind the business, yet when it comes to cutting hair, he has no clue! So he’s more than happy to leave the hard graft to David…
“Nick is a fish out of water,” chuckles Ben. “Although what’s nice about the barbers’ is you can create a place where the audience goes, ‘Oh, it’s these two in the barbers’, let’s watch them wash some hair’. The barbers’ is all about chat, a bit like the Bistro and the Rovers. It’s a place to have characters meet.”
While many viewers were outraged that Nick could steal from his own gran, he doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal! In fact, he reckons there are far worse crimes he could have committed.
“I love Nick’s duplicity,” confesses Ben. “He sees Shona involved with Clayton and the drugs, and he thinks it’s dark and dirty, whereas he reckons all he’s done is taken some money off his grandma – she won’t miss it, so it’s fine!”