In the audition room, Mark Charnock picked up the script and felt his heart sink. Another one he wouldn’t get.
‘Marlon appears, he is a Greek god, an Adonis, the sort of man who makes women melt’, it read.
Yes, this was Marlon Dingle. Anyone who has watched his character’s exploits over the past 25 years in Emmerdale will feel a good deal of confusion - and back then, going for the role he hoped would transform his career, so did a 27-year-old Mark.