to think if the actress who plays Gail in Corrie has been there so long she might have learnt to act by now?

[ssd]

she is flamin dreadful

[MrsLouisTheroux]

She makes me angry. She must be paid quite well and is a terrible actress.

[BumpingFuglies]

YANBU. On the rare occasion I have seen it, I swear I can see her strings being pulled, not to mention the splinters falling orf her

[longingforsomesleep]

Can't decide if it's the actress or the character she plays that infuriates me so much - maybe it's both!

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

I am intrigued by longstanding soap actors. What a strange thing to do really - the same person everyday. I suppose the character encounters situations the actor might never face, so there's some challenge there, but I kind of assumed actors go into acting partly because they want to experience different parts, different settings, different personalities.


I do think some actors who play the part for a long time are pretty crap, but some aren't but then get trapped - someone like the guy who plays Ian Beale, i could imagine him an actor with a good range if he got the chance.


I'd be interested to hear what people in the business think about it. Spose it is just horses for courses in the end....

[NorbertDentressangle]

longingforsomesleep - after all these years its probably the same person as I expect shes morphed into one.

[crashdoll]

I can't bear her "oh mam!" - makes my teeth itch!

[ssd]

ITS THE WEE GIRLY VOICE AND BATTING OF EYELASHES THat gets me, FFS woman grow up

[ssd]

someone on here said theres only 5 years between her and Audrey in rl, is this true?

[carabos]

Doubt that ssd, Audrey was Reggie Perrin's secretary and that was about 40 years ago .

[SPsFanjoIsAsComfyAsAOnesie]

All I see when I see her face is E.T

[OldLadyKnowsNothing]

Gail is 62. Audrey is 69.

[chanie44]

I think long term actors stay in their roles because they get a good solid income every month and are smart enough to realise they'd probably be waiting on tables otherwise/ or applying to work for mi5 like dean gaffney

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

Chanie

Yes. It ain't all glamour.

[lollilou]

Wow she looks pretty good for her age. I don't really watch much Corrie so can't comment on her acting but isn't she supposed to be all girly and in love with the charmer?
I think soap actors stay on because of the money and the worry they won't get anything else apart from I'm a Celebrity a few years down the line.

[ssd]

I can get staying in the job forever if they can get away with it, but jesus you'd think she'd try to act, at least

[Shakey1500]

It's so hard. Someone can be the best actor in the universe and it's still and always will be a case of getting them lucky breaks, being in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people and in days of yore, the casting couch

When a plum job comes along, it's the bee's knee's and once you're used to earning a certain income and living a certain lifestyle, is hard to give up. Unless you're willing to take the jump off the cliff. But it's rarely successful. Think Martine McCutcheon. Riding high in soapland, decent role in Love Actually (not saying she did a good job mind...), now advertising yoghurt The list is endless.

Also it's not as if you have to be a great actor to do soaps (or any television/film for that matter) what with the amount of re-takes at your disposal. Give me the theatre any day. Real, live, honest to goodness real time acting. No room for error, no restarting again, raw emotion, a live audience. If you fuck up then it's up to you and the rest of the cast to use your experience and get yourself out. No saying "Sorry, I forgot my line can we do that bit again?"

Any successful television/film actor who puts their money where their mouth is and takes to the stage gets my vote Even better if they do a Shakespeare.

[ssd]

I cant get past her bad acting to notice her men

[HelloMrWigglesworth]

Her brother was my Geography teacher. He was Mr Wigglesworth. So Helen Worth was born Helen Wigglesworth, hee hee.

NC for this as I might have mentioned it often in RL as it is my only connection to any famous person ever.

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

Shakey

Oooh a thesp! Bloody hard, the business they call show, or so I imagine...

[butterflyroom]

How funny - OldLadyKnowsNothing

[LindaMcCartneySausage]

That actress and Ken Barlow are utterly wooden. Two dining chairs could emote better. I suppose if you've been playing a character that long, it's not really acting, more a sort of professional schizophrenia.

Watch out for William Roach's eye-roll/look to the heavens, which is his way of acting every human emotion from cloth rending grief to mild annoyance that is half of Newton & Ridley is slow to arrive in the Rovers.

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

Shakey

I can imagine stage work is much more fun, but gruelling. In my alternate life not lived i would be in musical theatre. My brief experience with filming tv (i drove my cousin to a shoot once a stuck around for a couple of days) was how boooooring it was. So much technical stuff to set up, then the actors had to come and emote for five minutes, then more hanging around waiting for lighting etc. good gossip fromthe makeup lady though

[LadyBeagleEyes]

She does seem lovely in RL, she does a lot of charitable work for elephants.(I like elephants ).
I suppose she's like many of us in a safe job, she wouldn't get any other work in the industry, so sticks to doing what she knows.
I stopped watching Corrie a long time ago, about the time they decided it had to to keep up with East Enders and be utterly depressing.

[ssd]

shakey I think you've got a stalker