Originally Posted by
Perdita
Coronation Street star Natalie Gumede has revealed how she 'loved' filming the dramatic crash scene.
Her soap alter-ego Officer Kirsty Soames has an accident, after pursuing Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) and Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) in her police car.
"I loved seeing how the driving scene was shot, especially as Kirsty is chasing Tyrone's car in her patrol car," she wrote on the ITV soap's blog.
The 27-year-old continued: "As the car was rigged up, the actors didn't actually drive it, they just had their hands on the wheel, so there wasn't too much to concentrate on! Alan and Michelle were towed around the streets of Trafford while I followed, un-towed, driving a police patrol car behind. I even got to turn on my blue flashing lights!!"
The scene took a day to shoot, and there was a stunt double for Natalie.
"For the crash, although I would have loved to try it myself, Amanda, my stunt double, took over. Alan, Michelle, and I stood at the side of the street and gasped (well, I shrieked) as Amanda drove the patrol car straight into the back of Tyrone's car," she recalled.
Natalie admitted she couldn't resist laughing as her stunt double had extra hair attached to her bun.
"I have an awful lot of it so my bun is pretty big, and her hair has to look like mine!" she explained.
"The hair looks like it is made of cotton wool from a distance, or maybe a local poodle just had a trim, but either way, it is made to look realistic!"
PA
