Coronation Street Actress Was Snubbed By ITV Bosses For Emmerdale Role As Major Character's...

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Coronation Street star Channique Sterling-Brown has revealed before landing the role on the ITV soap she audtioned for a role in Emmerdale - but was turned down.

Responding to backlash over their relationship, Channique said during a documentary titled Breaking Through with Zeze Millz , that fan reaction to her inter-racial relationship has been nothing short of ⁘bizarre.⁘ She said: ⁘The dating storyline is really fun. Calum Lill, who plays Joel, is wonderful. We're getting on like a house on fire . I saw some comments about us being an interracial couple. Almost like 'An interracial couple on the Street – God forbid.' I just thought it's so bizarre, because the relationship had nothing to do with race. It really is just about two people who have found each other, and are really in that loved-up, gross honeymoon phase.⁘

She added: ⁘It's really nice to be able to play that without… I think as a Black woman in the industry, I think we do put constraints on ourselves on how we're going to be presented, especially romantically. So whether we are the sexual interest or just the friend-zoned woman or whatever, I feel like we're often hypersexualised or under-sexualised as Black female characters. So, again, it's really nice to have this authentic relationship for Dee-Dee and Joel. It's just normal. I really, really do love that. I think it's so important to, obviously, present culture.⁘

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