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Coronation Street - Bethany Platt recast
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronation-street/news/a622475/coronation-street-to-recast-bethany-platt-role-as-katie-redford-dropped.html
Apparently the actress lied about her age. Producers have someone else in mind already...
Apparently the actress lied about her age. Producers have someone else in mind already...
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I don't think that's fair. It's completely ridiculous for a 25/26 year old woman to play a 14-year-old girl. She doesn't look anywhere near 14! In some pictures/youtube clips she even looks older than 25! She shouldn't have got the job in the first place - her and Corrie are to blame for this mess, not members of an online forum.
At least DS can feel better though knowing they have full filled their ambition of Corrie listening to them and acting upon it. Might not be Stuart Blackburn getting the sack, but at least it is a start.
'This whole mess' wouldnt be a mess if it wasn't for super sleuths setting out to ruin a young actress' opportunity.
To us Corrie is a television show and it's largely irrelevant to our lives if Beth Platt looks a bit too old. To Katie, it was a career making opportunity that would have changed her life and now she may not be taken seriously again in the future.
Hope those 'oh so clever' investigators feel that justice has been done.
Erm ((shakes finger from side to side)) the sentence after your highlighted section clearly shows the first sentence is a joke. Lighten up! (((rollseyes)))
Katie seems like a nice girl though and would probably of made a good Bethany so maybe we should all petition to get her job back!
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To be fair they just did the journalists jobs for them. Makes a change but it was never going to work and the girl would probably have wanted to leave after a year or two which wouldn't work! She seems to have done other work has raised her profile so it might not worry her too much. If she is good there will be other more age appropriate roles
I agree. Casting directors may not trust Katie or her agency in the future. If her agency isn't trusted, it affects every single actor on their books, not just Katie.
She should have told the truth in the first place!
I think the soap has a lot of passionate and vocal fans who just want the soap to be the best it can be and when they can see it underpeforming and struggling they want to be heard.
Serial dramas can get away with casting older actors in younger roles, soap's it is different if the character is ear marked for long term things it become's hard because it daily/weekly viewing.
I agree with this!! To all those who couldn't let this lie I really hope somebody does the same for you next time you step out of line... wiyh the same result!!
I'd argue it's counter-productive at any age. Given how easy it is to check nowadays, is it really worth the potential career damage?
Er no, they don't have any clout whatsoever and readership is minimal. It was the Sun.
No, she lost herself her job. Anyone googling her name would have found out she was lying.
I agree, even without DS' intervention, this would have likely have been unearthed at some point (pretty much like every deception in the actual show)
But to play Devil's Advocate for a second, I do think if you're going to lie about your age, it's probably sensible, even vital, to change your Twitter name and delete your online CV beforehand, not after you've been cast and attracted the attention of the super sleuths.
I think if she had been truthful about her age from the start then she wouldn't have even been considered, if it was her that lied or maybe her agent then the blame for her being dropped lays at their doors, no one else's and certainly not DS members.