Julie Hesmondhalgh as soon as purchased a cardboard cutout of herself.
Julie Hesmondhalgh purchased a life-size cardboard cutout of herself
The 53-year-old actress was honoured to have had an image of herself wanting “very glam” at an awards ceremony made right into a life-sized novelty print and was much more thrilled to see the worth had gone up lately as she revealed she purchased a replica for her pal who lives in London.
She advised Metro newspaper’s SixtySeconds column: “I feel the worth has gone up! That is higher than your IMDb web page is that – how a lot your cardboard cutout is. I received one for my mate Raz who I stick with after I’m in London, so he would not miss me after I wasn’t there. It is me on the Nationwide TV Awards so I am very glam in it.
“I do not suppose he is ever seen me like that in his life.”
Julie is greatest recognized for her portrayal of knicker stitcher Hayley Cropper on ‘Coronation Avenue’ however nearly a decade after leaving the ITV1 cleaning soap, she has been reunited with former co-star Katherine Kelly – who performed diamond-in-the-rough Becky Granger on the serial – as they each star within the upcoming ITV1 drama ‘Mr. Bates vs. The Put up Workplace’, which is predicated on the Put up Workplace scandal that noticed numerous sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted for fraud.
Throughout their time on ‘Coronation Avenue’, Hayley grew to become one thing of a surrogate mom in direction of Becky and Julie defined that regardless that this time spherical, they solely had a few days on set, they’d an “completely joyous” time collectively.
She stated: “It is humorous as a result of we have been each in ‘Pleased Valley’ collection two however on that we by no means even crossed paths within the make-up chair. On this we solely had two days collectively, but it surely was completely joyous between scenes. Now we have rather a lot to atone for each time.”
‘Mr. Bates vs the Put up Workplace’ will air on ITV1 from 1 January.