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Old 18-10-2004, 23:59
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As much as i like Suranne Jones playing Karen McDonald i dont understand how she's always up and Kate Ford isnt to me i know shes always up for Best Bitch etc and sometimes wins but i believe she should be taking the best actress award home.
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Old 19-10-2004, 00:00
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You want to know why? I can actually tell you, as can many.


She can't act.
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Old 19-10-2004, 00:14
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She's a great actress Weatherfields finest.
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Old 19-10-2004, 00:18
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Um, she has been up for acting awards. Anyway, she'sa good but not brilliant - certainly not a patch on Suranne Jones.
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Old 19-10-2004, 00:19
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Um i think she's the best in corrie
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Old 19-10-2004, 07:58
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Um I think she is useless and a waste of space.
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Old 19-10-2004, 09:15
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Originally Posted by bill luvs t.v
As much as i like Suranne Jones playing Karen McDonald i dont understand how she's always up and Kate Ford isnt to me i know shes always up for Best Bitch etc and sometimes wins but i believe she should be taking the best actress award home.
They dont have a Wooden Actress category yet
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Old 19-10-2004, 09:19
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She's improved a lot, but she's not even the best actress in the Barlow household, never mind The Street. Compare her efforts last night to Sue Cleaver's in the midst of the whole Todd/Karl fallout. Kate Ford can only look and learn.
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:00
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i think ahe is one of the worst actresses i've ever seen in anything let alone corrie
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:04
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Originally Posted by Agent Krycek
She's improved a lot, but she's not even the best actress in the Barlow household, never mind The Street. Compare her efforts last night to Sue Cleaver's in the midst of the whole Todd/Karl fallout. Kate Ford can only look and learn.
Agreed, she has improved loads since her arrival in 2002, but she's still far, far away from being the Street's best actress.
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:10
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I can see her winning the Ronseal award but nothing else. She only has one expression - that awful toothy grin - and she's been pretty unconvincing in most of the scenes in which she's appeared.
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:12
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I think she is a very weak actress and to think she had the nerve to call some of the EE cast crap.
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:14
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Originally Posted by Loopy Lisa Chez
I think she is a very weak actress and to think she had the nerve to call some of the EE cast crap.
Well some of the EE cast are crap and lets face it she is a expert witness in crap acting
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:35
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I totally disagree and so do people i know Kate is great at playing Tracy
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:40
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She's not that bad. Much, much better than when she first arrived, and, to be honest, I think she has more difficult stuff to do than Suranne Jones, who really only has to be demented and say "bey-beh" a lot. Tracy is much less obviously OTT/entertaining/likeable person than Karen, and is a character with huge amounts of CS baggage and heritage, so it's a more demanding part.
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:52
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I think what has been perhaps the biggest problem (if I can call it that) for Kate has been those she's acting alongside.

Tracy has been involved in some of the biggest Street storylines since 2002 and as far as I'm concerned the acting talent of her co-stars has always far outweighed that of Kate, so of course she will come across as being weak.

David Neilson and Julie Hesmondhalgh showed their brilliance during the whole "Tracy, selling the baby" thing, and since then Suranne Jones and Simon Gregson have always shown Kate up.
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Old 19-10-2004, 16:59
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Originally Posted by Benc533
I think what has been perhaps the biggest problem (if I can call it that) for Kate has been those she's acting alongside.

Tracy has been involved in some of the biggest Street storylines since 2002 and as far as I'm concerned the acting talent of her co-stars has always far outweighed that of Kate, so of course she will come across as being weak.

David Neilson and Julie Hesmondhalgh showed their brilliance during the whole "Tracy, selling the baby" thing, and since then Suranne Jones and Simon Gregson have always shown Kate up.
The reason she has looked like a good actress recently is because most of her scenes have been with Keith Duffy who lets face it is not much of an actor.
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Old 19-10-2004, 17:01
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Originally Posted by alan45
Well some of the EE cast are crap and lets face it she is a expert witness in crap acting
I think they really exchange 'skills' during their TV award rendez-vous's.
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Old 19-10-2004, 17:06
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Originally Posted by alan45
The reason she has looked like a good actress recently is because most of her scenes have been with Keith Duffy who lets face it is not much of an actor.
Yes, I remember I (and even you, for a nanosecond) thought Kate had improved significantly when she was in those scenes with Keith D. It is all in the comparison. As Keith D is probably (IMO, definitely) the poorest actor in Corrie, she could only look good beside him.

However after al this time, you would think that acting alongside Blanche, Roy, Steve and Karen etc would have helped Kate more by now, by virtue of them dragging her upwards with them. It happened to Simon G when he started working with Suranne - he improved immeasurably.
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Old 19-10-2004, 17:20
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She has improved drastically since she arrived.. but I agree she's still not close to being in the Best Actress category just yet. I think her scenes with Steve when they argued about Amy in the street and had the child sitting in her pram between them both, were probably her best to date. Can't help but notice how Tracy's lines always seem to be punctuated with a "yeah?" these days. Anyone else noticed this?
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Old 19-10-2004, 20:15
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Originally Posted by Garbage
She has improved drastically since she arrived.. but I agree she's still not close to being in the Best Actress category just yet. I think her scenes with Steve when they argued about Amy in the street and had the child sitting in her pram between them both, were probably her best to date. Can't help but notice how Tracy's lines always seem to be punctuated with a "yeah?" these days. Anyone else noticed this?
I notied it a while ago most especially the night she as trying to convince Ciaran to go ahead with the scam of selling the restaurant. She looked to me as though she had taken grinds from Suranne Jones, every second word out of her mouth was "yeah" and she was waving her hands all over the place a la Karen and was trying (poorly) to do her head wobbly thing. All in all it was a poor showing. I think she thinks that because Suranne does it and she wins loads of awards if she copies her then she will too. Don't think so. Added to the fact that I can't stand her and every time her face appears on my screen my hand itches to give her a good hard slap. Rant over.
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Old 19-10-2004, 20:20
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Originally Posted by Goldilocks
and every time her face appears on my screen my hand itches to give her a good hard slap.
Lol, that's what Maggie Jones did, (in character of course) and apparently dislocated her jaw.. Really, I don't think anyone would have seen any difference though.
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Old 19-10-2004, 22:21
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I do not think Kate is one of the weakest actors in Corrie more like the strongest.
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Old 19-10-2004, 22:26
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Do you really need to ask?
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Old 19-10-2004, 23:01
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Originally Posted by alan45
The reason she has looked like a good actress recently is because most of her scenes have been with Keith Duffy who lets face it is not much of an actor.
LOL!!! Completely true.

Kate Ford is wooden beyond belief. Watch the scene again when Mike Baldwin confronted her in The Rovers about trying to defraud Penny and it was chronic to watch it.

Watch any scene from the Tracy / Roy & Hayley storyline & Julie Hesmondhlagh & David Nielson act her off the screen.

Kate Ford has been up for the Best Actress award but that isn't any reflection of her talent (or lack thereof). She was nominated as Best Actress in the Soap Awards by the Coronation Street porduction team purely on the grounds that she's featured in a number of high profile storylines.
That's the way nominees for these awards are always chosen.

It's the reason why someone like Sue Cleaver (Eileen) who has more acting talent in her little finger that Kate Ford can ever hope to have will never get nominated - because she's not a high profile enough character.

Lippincote said that Simon Gregson improved a lot when he started working with Suranne Jones & that is certainly true - she's brought out the best in him.

Kate Ford has had Anne Kirkbride (Deirdre), Bill Roache (Ken), Maggie Jones (Blanche), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley) and David Nielson (Roy) to watch & learn from, but she's still almost as wooden as the very first day she arrived on the cobbles. The sooner she leaves the better......
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