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kitchen. She said: “Were we spooked? Oh yes. I was scared to go to wardrobe on my own. The house is massive, dark and had all the windows covered up.
“It’s old, dusty, damp, there are portraits everywhere looking at you, mad things all over the place and you are not sure if this is the set or real.
“You would finish a scene and had to walk up three floors to the ‘green room’ to relax but we were too scared to sit in it. I wouldn’t sit up there on my own.
“We were saying, ‘Anybody going to the green room? No, you’re alright.’ We were all sat in the kitchen.”
Despite the fear factor, playing the scares for real was fun, even in gruesome scenes with a mystery guest. She said: “We have one particularly gory scene with our special guest. But working with John Gordon Sinclair and Julie Wilson Nimmo, it was difficult not to laugh.”
Unlike her character, presenter Faye Bowers, who partners Gordon Sinclair’s psychic Pat Tomorrow, Lorraine is a believer of sorts.
She said: “I can’t imagine when people die that is it. For me, there’s a thin veil between this world and the next world and these people who contact spirits and all that, I wouldn’t doubt that at all.
“I haven’t had a ghostly experience and I wouldn’t like one either. I don’t think I would ever recover from it.”
Having proved her acting credentials on stage and in River City, Lorraine has been showing her funny bones in recent roles, appearing in Still Game’s second live show at the SSE Hydro, Bon Voyage, and in Scots Squad as the ex-wife of Jack Docherty’s Chief Inspector Cameron Miekelson.
She’s also managing her career with the long successful Deacon Blue as a mum of three and has just started on a new play, Gut, at Edinburgh’s Traverse. She said: “My acting career totters along and nice things happen but I feel I’ve never been able to go for it 100 per cent. I realise there are lots of women my age not being asked to do anything so I am just grateful I have been asked to do brilliant parts.
“It’s not like work, really, to spend a month running about a haunted house pretending you’re ghostbusters.”