Perdita
12-02-2009, 06:15
CORRIE’S Deirdre Barlow has given her strongest hint that she is set to hang up her spectacles.
After more than 34 years on the soap, actress Anne Kirkbride said she doesn’t want to grow old on it.
The 54-year-old said: “Acting is my job — it pays my mortgage. If I earned my living from art it might be different. What I enjoy about my art is it’s me, not part of a big machine.
“I’m happy to stay on but as I get older I hope to slow down to pursue different interests. I am loathe to grow old in the Street. I don’t know what the future holds.”
Show insiders revealed Anne will stay on until at least the end of next year for the show’s 50th anniversary. A source said the Barlows would be “central to the show”.
Anne added: “I don’t want to grow old working as hard as I am now, out on the cobbles for hours on a morning in winter. It’s been great but it’s a curse too.
“Being in the public eye is a huge responsibility. When I go home I want my life. I never answer to Deirdre. I have to have my own identity or I’d go mad.
“The Street is hard work. If you’ve got a big storyline it is 12 hours a day, six days a week. I get very tired.”
Anne claims playing Deirdre kept her sane when she became depressed. She said: “I felt terrified and couldn’t tell you what of — the cat, my food. One night I had hysterics when I saw the iron’s water reservoir. When I left work it began.”
She now takes anti-depressants and added: “I felt a different person. I’d coped all my life just getting through the days fighting fear. It’s one reason I stayed in the Street. I can go home every night.”
From The Sun
After more than 34 years on the soap, actress Anne Kirkbride said she doesn’t want to grow old on it.
The 54-year-old said: “Acting is my job — it pays my mortgage. If I earned my living from art it might be different. What I enjoy about my art is it’s me, not part of a big machine.
“I’m happy to stay on but as I get older I hope to slow down to pursue different interests. I am loathe to grow old in the Street. I don’t know what the future holds.”
Show insiders revealed Anne will stay on until at least the end of next year for the show’s 50th anniversary. A source said the Barlows would be “central to the show”.
Anne added: “I don’t want to grow old working as hard as I am now, out on the cobbles for hours on a morning in winter. It’s been great but it’s a curse too.
“Being in the public eye is a huge responsibility. When I go home I want my life. I never answer to Deirdre. I have to have my own identity or I’d go mad.
“The Street is hard work. If you’ve got a big storyline it is 12 hours a day, six days a week. I get very tired.”
Anne claims playing Deirdre kept her sane when she became depressed. She said: “I felt terrified and couldn’t tell you what of — the cat, my food. One night I had hysterics when I saw the iron’s water reservoir. When I left work it began.”
She now takes anti-depressants and added: “I felt a different person. I’d coped all my life just getting through the days fighting fear. It’s one reason I stayed in the Street. I can go home every night.”
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