Claire Sweeney will be unrecognisable when she joins Coronation Street as heroin addict Cassie Plummer – whose first act on the cobbles is to overdose.
It’s been 20 years since soap fans last saw Sweeney as gobby Lindsey Corkhill in Brookside, appearing in 1,623 episodes between 1991 and 2003. And this time around there’s not a hint of glamour as desperate Cassie comes to seek help from her mother Evelyn, played by Maureen Lipman.
Claire said she’d loved ditching her manicured nails and eyelash extensions. “She’s really, really stripped back. The makeup design, they’ve done a fantastic job on just making me look as rough as anything.
