Earlier this week we blogged the tabloid rumour that Bethany Platt was going to get involved in a lap dancing storyline. You can read that here.
I truly hoped that this was one tabloid rumour that was not going to be true, but we can now confirm it will indeed be shown on Coronation Street.
Lucy Fallon, who plays Bethany Platt in Coronation Street, tells the Manchester Evening News in an interview this week about the storyline.
She says: “Bethany does get a job at the strip club and for Bethany it’s a thing to say that she has control over what those men can do to her so they can’t touch her and they can’t do anything to her. She takes back control of her own body and the way she views herself. In her mind she’s laughing at them as she’s doing. Obviously a lot of people will be asking ‘why is she doing that? that’s ridiculous’ but it’s the way that she’s recovering.
“Whether that’s the right thing is another story.
“She’s got a really, really long journey to recovery and whether she will fully recover ever we don’t know. We have to show she’s really struggling and she’s not going to suddenly get over what’s happened. And it’s an interesting way to play it out.”
Tvor @tvordlj on Twitter
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteShe's selling herself
ReplyDeleteas a sex object and
thinks she's in control
of it, but she isn't.
You can tell that she
doesn't want anyone she
knows to see her in there,
just like when Leanne had
a prostitute customer who
lived on the same street
she did. (Paul Conner).
It's her little inner voice
trying to tell her that she's doing
something wrong, just like when
Nathan was grooming her.