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Coronation Avenue star Antony Cotton has revealed that he pitched an alternate strategy to carry Sean Tully’s teenage son Dylan Wilson again into the present.
Dylan was reintroduced to Weatherfield in 2020 and is at present taking centre stage in a faculty bullying storyline involving Liam Connor.
In a brand new chat with Digital Spy and different press, Antony defined that it was his concept to reintroduce Dylan and have younger actor Liam McCheyne reprise the function following an eight-year absence.
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Antony recalled: “The reality is that I wrote a little bit storyline for Dylan and mentioned it with [Coronation Street producer] Iain MacLeod.
“It was going to be some type of trauma, however not that trauma. We had been going to have a medical story the place he wanted one thing from somebody.
“So the concept of Dylan coming again got here from that dialog and partly as a result of Liam, who performs Dylan, is such an excellent actor. He was in Final Tango in Halifax with one in every of my outdated buddies Derek Jacobi and so I knew that he was an excellent actor and he’d continued to be good from being a child.
“All of it got here from that about: ‘How would we get Dylan again?’ There’d must be a narrative however I did not understand it was going to be this story, which is clearly a really fashionable story.”
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Dylan has joined in with the bullying of Liam as he hopes to impress ringleader Mason Radcliffe. Subsequent week’s episodes see Sean uncover the reality about his son’s behaviour.
The present has additionally explored knife crime inside the plot, as Mason owns a zombie knife and threatened Liam final 12 months.
Antony added: “I’ve seen protection on the information about zombie knives and about getting new sentences. So clearly we did not know that was going to occur when this was storylined six months in the past, however that is the place we’re at.
“I’ve simply filmed a scene speaking particularly about zombie knives. We already thought it was related after we had been filming it within the storyline – which can have been plotted six months in the past and even longer – however we’re particularly speaking about zombie knives, is not that bizarre?”
Coronation Avenue airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
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Daniel has been writing about soaps on Digital Spy since 2004 and took over as Soaps Editor in 2010.
He has interviewed a whole lot of cleaning soap stars over time, from Invoice Roache to Lacey Turner, and often visits the units of Coronation Avenue, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks for behind-the-scenes journeys and press occasions.
He has served as an awards decide on quite a few events for the likes of the BAFTA TV Awards, RTS Programme Awards and British Cleaning soap Awards. In 2020, he was Extremely Recommended for Greatest Part Editor on the BSME Awards.
