Coronation Street’s Claire Sweeney teases ‘evil’ Cassie storyline will run for MONTHS as she goes to war with Tracy

CORONATION Street prima Claire Sweeney has revealed that Cassie Plummer's manipulation of Ken Barlow has lone conscionable begun.

The TV icon, who plays evil Cassie connected the ITV soap, has been dilatory poisoning nonmigratory favourite Ken successful a acheronian caller storyline.

Claire, 53, said her quality has filmed immoderate explosive scenes with arch nemesis and Ken's girl Tracy Barlow.

She besides teased that Cassie's evil program has lone conscionable started and said it volition play retired for the next fewer months.

Speaking exclusively to the Sun, Claire revealed: “Cassie manages to speech herself retired of truthful galore situations. She doesn’t privation to wounded Ken, she’s conscionable keeping him sleepy truthful helium needs her.

"She conscionable wants him to request her, Ken is the archetypal idiosyncratic who sees her and gives her clip and teaches her things - it's similar successful Pygmalion, My Fair Lady benignant of relationship, wherever wrong the location she’s got the romance with Steve McDonald, she’s got the banter with Tracy and she abruptly feels portion of something.”

Claire said she has filmed her scenes for the adjacent six weeks and truthful acold Cassie has not been exposed.

Clare said: “With each these characters there’s got to beryllium immoderate benignant of redemption arch but I wouldn’t privation her to beryllium a goody 2 shoes.

"I bask that naughtiness, poisoning a nationalist treasure is going a spot excessively acold but I emotion the mode they’re penning it.

"They’re penning it from a spot of vulnerability that she needs him, it’s not conscionable being evil – determination is simply a crushed down it.

"“I’ve got immoderate large scenes with Tracy Barlow, perfectly brilliant."

But Cassie is skating connected bladed ice, with Claire saying that Ken could beryllium the 1 to drawback her out.

“Ken Barlow is simply a clever man, don’t underestimate him, I deliberation he’ll recognize her if she does," she went connected to say.

"I don’t cognize yet myself due to the fact that we’re inactive connected that journey.

"We’re six weeks successful beforehand filming, astir 2 months and they’ve inactive not recovered retired astir Cassie.”

Speaking successful a Q&A aft the scenes of her poisoning mediocre Ken person aired on Coronation Street, Claire explained that it mightiness not beryllium arsenic malicious arsenic it seems.

She said: "She feels terrible. There’s implicit remorse – she ne'er wanted to wounded him and she thinks she’s gone excessively far.

"She’s not trying to harm him; she conscionable wants him to request her. I deliberation she regrets giving him humor thinners. There is an constituent of guilt – she does question herself."

The filming and storyline besides impacted co-star Bill Roache, who has played Ken Barlow since its archetypal occurrence successful 1960.

She explained: "We were some a spot shocked and it sounds atrocious that I’m poisoning him, but she conscionable wants him to request her.

"She wants to support her  occupation and she loves being with him. 

"Bill is similar myself, he’s precise keen to play the affection betwixt the 2 characters truthful it’s not conscionable achromatic and achromatic – determination is simply a grey area."