Coronation Street Interview - Jennie McAlpine explains love for John

Friday, 19 June 2009

We've been chatting to Coronation Street actress Jennie McAlpine about what's going to happen to Fiz and John in the next few weeks.

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John's now clinically depressed - Is Fiz really worried?

"Yeah, she's getting increasingly worried and I think that it's made worse because they haven't got a conventional relationship. She's tried to see him but he won't see her for her own good; he doesn't want to cause problems between her and Chesney. It's actually the Prison welfare woman who rings Fiz to tell her that John is on suicide watch and is clinically depressed, but because she's not really familiar with it she doesn't know what to think. She's just so worried about him."

After she finds out does she try and see John?

"Yes, she tries everything. She makes loads of phone calls, and goes down to the Prison, she even speaks to the Governor but while John is refusing to see her there's nothing she can do. You can't just walk in a prison!"

How does she react?

"She's just getting more and more frustrated. She's getting really stressed and is just overwhelmed with it all."

How does she react when she finds out that Rosie has been to visit John?

"When Rosie first tells Fiz that she's been to visit John, she doesn't believe her. It's not until she talks about John's injuries healing, which Rosie wouldn't have known about otherwise.

Is Fiz angry?

"She is at first because she thinks that John and Rosie are having an affair. Then Rosie tells her that John asked her to come down so he could give her some compensation; £150,000. Rosie is lording it all over the street spending in the only way Rosie knows how, on handbags and parties! She starts to worry because it is out of character for John and now she knows that he's clinically depressed she starts to worry even more. She just doesn't know what he's doing."

Does she believe that John might really kill himself?
"Yeah of course she does. Giving Rosie the money makes her think that he might be getting his affairs in order before he does it.

If John did end up killing himself, who would Fiz blame?

"At the first stage she would blame Rosie. Then I think she'd blame the prison. She genuinely believes that if they let her through to see John then she'd be able to stop it from happening.

Does she think that John doesn't want to see her or that the prison is not letting her see John?
"I think she knows that he's said that he doesn't want to see her but it's one of those things where if she could just get through to see him or speak to him, then he'd realise that he did want to see her all along!"

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