Pauline McLynn has disclosed that her Coronation Street character, Maggie Driscoll, was initially intended to be killed off. The actress, who plays the matriarch on the ITV soap, shared the revelation during the show's highly anticipated murder week.
Speaking about her role as a villain, McLynn said: 'It's nearly the biggest compliment I've been paid for a long time! I'm not interested in nice people. I far prefer to be a villain.' She added: 'I will say this, when I joined the show, I was told that the plan for the character was to kill her. So we shall see!'
The actress warned that the character's fate looks bleak by the end of the week, but urged viewers to 'assume nothing'. She hinted that more than one character may die, as the storyline involves five potential victims and killers, each with their own intersecting narratives.
Coronation Street producer Kate Brooks explained the complexity of the murder week, saying: 'Usually in a murder week you’ve got one victim, then the suspects – we had five potential suspects had to make sure all the stories aligned.' She described each episode as a 'mini movie' with the hook being that audiences still do not know who has been killed.
