Happy Valley star says there will never be a Street return
HAPPY VALLEY star Sarah Lancashire has ruled out ever returning to Coronation Street.
The acclaimed actress starred as Raquel Wolstenhulme in the ITV soap in the Nineties but claimed the show had changed.
Asked if she had ever been asked to return to the cobbles she said: “No ... The show I was in doesn’t exist any more.”
She added: “Now do the next question – ‘Would you ever go back?’ No.”
Lancashire was speaking ahead of her role in upcoming Channel 4 drama Kiri which sees her as Miriam – an “experienced, no-nonsense social worker” caught up in a child abduction case.
The Bafta-award winning actress said she was excited to be working in a time when drama was valued.
“There’s no constant. Drama will always ebb and flow, it’s just a particularly brilliant period of time to be an actor, because the way we consume drama has changed,” she added.
“We have different platforms, we have global platforms and coproductions. I think more than anything I am just very privileged to be a part of my profession.
“I think I am very lucky because I love my job. I really love my job; I am very blessed, really, to be able to do the job I love.”
Lancashire’s final scenes on Coronation Street in 1996 attracted 20 million viewers.
Last month she said she was “slightly speechless” after being made an OBE at Buckingham Palace. The four-part drama series
Kiri, written by Jack Thorne, co-produced by Channel 4 and the American on-demand service Hulu, begins on Channel 4 on Wednesday, January 10 at 9pm.