OHMYGOSSIP — Shona Ramsey will run back into a building to protect Clayton Hibbs.
‘Coronation Street’ star Julia Goulding has revealed her character’s maternal instincts kick in when she almost escapes a hostage situation, but when she is met by armed officers she heads straight back to her killer son, played by Callum Harrison.
She said: “There’s a pivotal moment in the siege where Shona hugs Clayton. She is holding her baby and she knows the person that she has been trying to get him to be for the whole siege is right there in her arms.
“However, she knows by this point that he is lost to her and she has to make that survival instinct, so the second that she hears the knife fall to the floor, she knows that it is her only chance. She legs it out but that’s when she sees the guns.
“That’s when Shona’s maternal side comes out. She has just had her baby in her arms, but then she runs out and she sees the guns and she’s straight back in there, even though she knows it is probably not going to end well.”
The 33-year-old actress admitted the scenes were “really scary to film”, and she explained it wasn’t difficult for her to get in the right frame of mind.
She added: “But as a mother, she can’t see her son be killed. People are pointing machine guns at her baby. It was really scary to film, because when I came out and there were all the police and all the cars, it really got me in the zone.
“It would have felt wrong for Shona to leave Clayton because even as myself, the actor, it would have felt wrong. Naturally as soon as I ran out, I was immediately backing away back indoors.”