Tag: Hesmondhalgh

10 OCT

Liar spoilers: Broadchurch star Julie Hesmondhalgh hits out at rape plot critics

Julie played rape victim Trish Waterman in the final series of Broadchurch and believes television dramas are an appropriate medium for exploring sexual violence. According to figures, there are 85,000 rapes of adult women in England and Wales every year, 12,000 adult male rapes, and nearly half a million reported sexual assaults. Julie told Radio […]

28 FEB

Julie Hesmondhalgh says trans actor would play Coronation Street's Hayley Cropper today

The 47-year-old is currently starring as Trish in Broadchurch, but admits that since leaving Coronation Street three years ago after a controversial assisted dying storyline, she has looked back with fondness on her role as belonging to an old-fashioned time. Playing a transgender character in the mainstream ITV soap, Julie believes that if Hayley was […]

18 FEB

Coronation Street: Julie Hesmondhalgh says it would be 'WRONG' for her to play Hayley now

The former Coronation Street actress, who played the first transgender character in a British soap, said that it would be an “anomaly” for her to still play the part since there have become more high-profile trans stars. Speaking about her role as Hayley from 1998 to 2014, Julie said: “It ended just as there was […]

12 FEB

Coronation Street: Hayley Cropper was initially a JOKE, reveals Julie Hesmondhalgh

Julie, 46, played transgender Hayley for 16 years but was initially only supposed to be on the show for a few episodes. “I wasn’t meant to be in Coronation Street for any longer than two weeks,” Julie told the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine. “The character of Hayley was originally written as a joke. It wasn’t […]