Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has revealed that one Corrie actor decided to get drunk before filming, and it didn’t end well with all the cast members getting sent home
Jack P Shepherd revealed there was once a Coronation Street who turned up to the set drunk as they prepared for a booze filled scene.
Speaking on the latest episode of his, Colson Smith and Ben Price’s On The Sofa podcast, Jack, who plays David Platt on the ITV soap, said: “I’ve done a scene with someone who tried to get drunk for the scene. (It was a) night shoot, it was the same thing as Quint in the boat (in the film Jaws), they forgot everything and they had to pull the entire shoot. They sent everybody home.”
While Jack alluded to some actors having to actually make themselves drunk to try and act out drunken scenes convincingly, other Corrie actors had managed to get into character more easily. One actor apparently mastered the trick better than others.
The soap stars agreed that there is one actor on set who is far better than the rest when it comes to faking being a bit tipsy.
Ben, who plays Nick Tilsley on the soap, said: “I can let you into a little secret here, because I’ve done a lot of scenes with Peter Barlow, when he was playing drunk, and Nick would help him in and out of pubs and out of very dangerous situations. We’d get into long duologues and he would spin around before the take and make himself dizzy.”
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He added: “He’d then enter the scene dizzy and stagger around. It was a wonderful portrayal of drunk, but he was just dizzy.”
Earlier in the podcast, the trio even alluded to a little known fact about the famous Steven Spielberg film, Jaws, and how one particular scene was cut short by an actor deciding to rely on alcohol as they shot a drunken exchange.
Jack said: “We found out that when Quint was in the boat, and he’s giving that Indianapolis speech about the sub that went down and all the sharks came in and ate them all. He famously did that scene drunk and it was a disaster, he forgot all the lines, he didn’t know what he was doing, he didn’t know where he was and Spielberg had to wrap the day.”