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you. It was veryv important in the team to break throu through that and show that things have change changed. “Broadch “Broadchurch really wanted to show that you’ll b be treated from the point of view that yo you’ll be believed.” For her, TVT shows that sensationalise violence do n nothing to reflect what’s really happening i in the country She said: “I am absolutely sick of seeing – even on programmes I love – women being chase through woo woods by predators. “Seeing d dead women on slabs being cut to pieces afteraf terrible acts of violence have been e enacted on them. “And I th think that’s become so normal for us as viewers of television that we’ll even h happily sit and watch that with our young teens.” She also hopes that the stereotype that rape victims are often young and drunk would also be shattered. In another interview, she said: “It’s making it really clear, just by casting me, as an ordinary middle-aged women, that it can happen to anybody. And that it isn’t an act of sex, it’s an act of violence.”
Viewers were moved by a harrowing sequence in which Trish recounts being raped by a mysterious attacker. Julie was hailed as a tremendous “scene stealer”.
Hostage
One tweeter wrote: “Can we just give Julie Hesmondhalgh all of the acting awards now please?”
Another said: “Julie Hesmondhalgh is giving a master class in acting.”
This is nothing unusual for Julie who won awards, including a National Television Award for best performance in a serial drama, for her 16-year stint as Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper, the first transgender character in British soaps.
Good-natured Hayley’s kindness won her plenty of friends on Weatherfield’s cobbles. She was also involved in many high profile plots with screen husband Roy, played by David Neilson.
She was kidnapped and held hostage in the Underworld factory and took her own life when terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. She worked with pancreatic cancer charities to raise awareness of the disease, was involved in a petition and attended a parliamentaryry debate on the subject in n 2014.
Proving thathat Julie is always comittedmitted to a cause.