CORONATION Street teased major danger for fan favourite character and it is centred around her family.
The cobbles favourite – played by the legendary Dame Maureen Lipman – will find herself in serious danger alongside drug addict daughter Cassie this year.
Corrie boss Iain Macleod revealed: “We basically thought, ‘What do the viewers love?’ Essentially, we though, ‘They love Evelyn and they love dogs’ because who doesn’t love dogs, so we thought let’s do a story about that.
“It ends up, actually, in quite serious territory but to start with, Evelyn makes herself a bit of an enemy in the shape of a fella that she sees mistreating his dog and it starts with this relatively small exchange where they cross paths in the precinct and some crossed words are exchanged, and it goes from there to a situation which ends up with court appearances and trips to the hospital and really quite serious danger for both Evelyn and Cassie.
“We thought it’s an opportunity to do a couple of things really. Number one, see Maureen being strident and brilliant and kicking the hides and taking names, but also a chance for us to explore more of her relationship with Cassie, which obviously pretty much since Cassie was a teenager had been kind of non existent, and what of it that has existed has been bad tempered and lots of estrangement.
“So it’s an opportunity to explore their dynamic as they find themselves on the same team for the most part of this story.
“Cassie, as is her preference, takes things too far, which causes some serious strife for Evelyn, so that then threatens to set their relationship back again, but by the end of it, they’ve achieved a new level of equilibrium, a new understanding of each other, and to some extent got to know each other as grown ups for the first time.
“So there’s lots going on in that, as I say it starts off with this relatively innocuous exchange with Evelyn and Roy and it’s almost played quite comically in terms of Evelyn and Roy taking on this man about how he’s treating his dog, and then suddenly you find yourself in the midst of this really serious story.”
Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
