Coronation Street’s Sam Robertson has hinted he may quit the ITV soap over his current love triangle storyline.
His character Adam Barlow is at loggerheads with wife Sarah Platt after a Fatal Attraction-style sting by his screen ex Lydia Chambers.
But actor Sam, 36, feels the story is too similar to when Adam cheated with the cobbles’ Carla Connor at the end of 2020.
Warring with Sarah, played by Tina O’Brien, 38, and the fling with Lydia, portrayed by Rebecca Ryan, 30, has Sam muddled over his
real-life future.
He sighed: “Sometimes you pick up a script and I feel like I am doing that same scene as I did 12 months ago.
“At first, I was a little bit troubled by it because we did a storyline when Adam had a fling with Carla. I don’t know if it’s too soon for more of that?
“Tina and I have gone from working together and a lot of harmony to suddenly being at each other’s throats. So it’s been really tough to do that again so soon.
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“Sometimes it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel, it has been five and a half months that we’ve been in this storyline.
“I definitely feel like it needs to recalibrate. Who is this character I’m playing now? With the confusion Adam is feeling, I’m kind of feeling that myself as an actor.”
Sam, as the son of the late Mike Baldwin, joined the soap as a teen in 2004 for three years, coming back six years ago.
Yet he has enjoyed working with Rebecca because it felt fresh.
Sam explained: “It has been something different – sometimes familiarity breeds contempt.
“As an actor, you are used to working on different characters. I’m at a stage now where I’ve not played another character for over six years. So it’s like, ‘Wow, this is mad’.”
Sam is taking time off after a hard few months filming, saying that working throughout the pandemic had been a challenge.
He added: “I’m was coming home at night to a hotel room on my own. Sometimes you feel like you’re stuck in a bit of a rut. The job takes over your life.”
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