OHMYGOSSIP — John Paul McQueen will come face-to-face with his rapist in ‘Hollyoaks’.
James Sutton’s much-loved alter-ego John Paul is returning to the Channel 4 soap five years after his harrowing rape storyline and there is set to be further distress for him when he meets rapist Finn O’Connor (Keith Rice) after his comeback later this year.
Producer Bryan Kirkwood told The Sun Online: “We’ve always been keen to revisit Finn. Keith Rice is a brilliant young actor who did great work with us five years ago with the John Paul rape story.”
And Bryan revealed Finn is set for a shock of his own when he meets his brother-in-law Laurie, who has raped his sister Sinead.
He said: “It’s a brilliant soap coincidence that they’re in the back of the same prison van.
“He’s in court because he’s a witness to a prison riot and he happens to be in the back of the van when this stranger comes in to join him and in the course of their journey, he realises Laurie is the man who raped his sister and all hell breaks loose.
“We felt that he’d been in prison for the correct amount of time and it was a very interesting concept to bring Sinead’s brother back who is a convicted rapist, time served, as Sinead is putting her life back together after [their stepmother] Diane.
“Diane is in the middle wrangling with turmoil with her two kids. That felt really appealing to us, half the writing team wanted Finn to be redeemed and the other half, just as correctly, felt that our audience didn’t have an appetite to see such a hard-hearted villain be redeemed.
“So we’re taking it very gently, very carefully and we hope we’ll take the audience with us so they can make their own minds up.”
Source: celebretainment.com
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