Coronation Street star Calum Lill struggled with confidence and ‘beat himself up’ over Joel performances

The information is yet retired astir Joel Deering’s (Calum Lill) execution successful Coronation Street, which means saying a last farewell to the sinister villain.

Joel terrorised Weatherfield locals for months, and had made countless enemies anterior to his demise, but it was Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) who delivered the fatal stroke that brought an extremity to his reign of terror.

While Joel volition beryllium remembered arsenic a sinister villain, his nastiness wasn’t evident close away.

It was a portion aft his archetypal quality earlier Joel’s existent colours were revealed, with storyliners having travel up with a dodgy backstory for the character successful bid to forestall raising suspicion.

‘One of the plans was: “He can’t beryllium perfect, truthful let’s enactment successful immoderate benignant of atrocious inheritance and past hopefully that’ll beryllium a reddish herring”, histrion Calum Lill revealed.

Being progressive successful specified an tremendous storyline proved to beryllium hard enactment for Calum, who explained that helium struggled to ticker his performances arsenic evil Joel.

‘I hadn’t worked for 2 years earlier this and I truly struggled to find my feet arsenic I started,’ helium revealed.

‘For astir six months, watching the episodes backmost I was beating myself up. I’d ticker the episodes with my fiancée and I’d spell upstairs and she’d cognize to permission maine for a spot due to the fact that I was beating myself up. It took that clip to effort and get into the character.

‘I worked truthful hard. I cognize that there’s decidedly amended actors than maine but I don’t deliberation anybody other could person enactment successful arsenic overmuch enactment arsenic I did. Because I conscionable said, if I tin springiness this 100% and I permission and I don’t enactment for years, astatine slightest I cognize that there’s nary much I could person done.

‘For that, it was up astatine 5.30am, I’d travel into enactment and would beryllium successful enactment for astir 15 hours. I’d get location for astir 10.30pm astatine night, I’d devour immoderate nutrient rapidly and past I’d bash different 2 hours of learning lines and past bash it again for astir 3 oregon 4 months erstwhile I was busy.

‘Looking back, I’m finished and I tin slumber present and I person clip and I tin spot my friends. But that’s astir apt the happiest clip I had, it was amazing. I americium arrogant of my work, not needfully due to the fact that I deliberation I’m large but due to the fact that I’ve not had that accidental to enactment that hard before.’

MORE : Coronation Street ‘confirms’ large quality is large – and it’s the worst imaginable news

MORE : Coronation Street yet confirms who truly killed Joel Deering – and it wasn’t Max Turner

MORE : ITV makes immense alteration to Coronation Street connected time of peculiar who killed Joel episode

This tract is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.