CORONATION Street legendary character will exit the soap in a two-part special this Christmas – after 23 years on the soap.
The Sun exclusively revealed that Peter Barlow actor Chris Gascoyne will leave the soap at the end of the year.
But with viewers now aware that Peter won’t be going to prison for killing Stephen Reid, how will he leave?
Corrie boss Iain MacLeod said: “What we wanted to do with Peter was try to play the reality of a man who’s got demons and a history of alcoholism and depressive episodes and his reaction to what he did to Stephen, the battle to get straight in his own mind if what he did was justified, necessary and how much of it was actually informed by his anger over what Stephen has done to Carla and was there an element of revenge to that?
“Obviously that puts him on the rack, emotionally speaking. We were very clear when we started the chapter of this story that we didn’t want him to fall off the wagon again so you won’t see that, we thought it was important as a transplant recipient that he didn’t drink again as we were worried about the messaging, but that does not mean that he won’t profoundly struggle psychologically and that will start to impact on his level of happiness in Coronation Street.
“There are a few explosive Peter Barlow-style outbursts that start to bring to Carla’s attention that he’s really not okay, and they reach this enormous fork in the road where they love each other, but perhaps their happiness is no longer reliant on each other, which is to say maybe they start to wonder if they’d be happier in some other situation somewhere else basically.
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“And it all builds up to this incredibly surprising Christmas Day episode, then there’s a huge two-hander between the two of them, more or less they are the only two cast in the episode.
“It’s a greatest hits compilation for those of you that have been big fans of Peter and Carla since the start that picks over every single detail of who are they are, what they’ve been as a couple and what they want for their future and what happiness looks like for them – and it’s building towards an exit for Peter which is really brilliant and bittersweet and feels like Corrie at it’s very best.”
He added: “We often think that Peter and Carla are the Burton and Taylor of the cobbles and we want it to have this highly emotional, very nuanced and realistic ending which I think is what the writers have achieved.
“It’s filming right now and I cannot wait to see the result. If it’s even half as good as the script and experience tells me it will be even better because the actors and the directors elevate the material, it’s going to be a really stunning Christmas episode for us because they are brilliant in-love characters, brilliant actors and it’s the culmination of a decade long love story, and I think the viewers are going to really love it.”
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Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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