Anna Passey, who plays Sienna Blake on Hollyoaks, discusses her character's unexpected connection with Cleo McQueen (Nadine Mulkerrin) and what it means for their future.
Trauma gave way to passion for Sienna Blake and Cleo McQueen.
What a year it has been for Anna Passey so far! The Hollyoaks queen has been at the centre of a number of storylines, including the aftermath of Ethan’s death, the loss of Dilly in devastating circumstances and now she has been pulled into the end of Abe Fielding too! But that’s not all! Fans were taken aback by a curveball which saw her grow close to former enemy Cleo McQueen (Nadine Mulkerrin) after they worked together to try and bring abuser Abe to justice. What followed was comforting words from Sienna who has been down the whole covering up deaths and taking revenge rodeo before. The new found bond led to a passionate kiss in the heat of the moment. Here, in a chat with Metro, she tells me exactly where the story might be going, her praise for Hollyoaks embracing sexuality fluidity and how much danger her alter-ego might be in from her murderous dad Jez (Jeremy Sheffield). Buckle up, Sienna’s chaotic life isn’t going to get any less so in coming months! You’ve been through such a rollercoaster on screen recently, what was all that like to film? When I first picked up the scripts I was expecting… not that! When you’re not in a story you watch it as a viewer and you don’t know what’s coming up with it, so I wasn’t expecting to cross over at all. So when I got the script and read everything with Cleo, I was excited to be joining their story. They always manage to keep things fresh with Sienna, was it nice for you for this story to come along? Definitely. Since we jumped to the three episodes, we’ve seen a lot more of the community and people jumping in and out of each other’s lives which I think is really great. I enjoy working that way. In soap people tend to stick to their little groupings so it’s nice to be able to form relationships and jump into other people’s storylines, it keeps things exciting. It’s brilliant when you get characters who have existed in the village for years and you get something new and fresh out of combining new characters together. Sienna has crossed paths with Cleo before but not in such a nice way. What’s it like working with Nadine now? I don’t know what’s wrong with my memory, I couldn’t even remember doing scenes together. Nadine reminded me of all the stuff we did over Joel way back when. Sienna has proven to be a rock for Cleo (Picture: Lime Pictures) From an acting perspective, Nadine is one of my favourites. I love everything she’s done and she’s always on my wish list of people I’d want to have scenes with. I love the character of Cleo and weirdly I think there are a lot of similarities of vulnerability in them at different points of their lives. They’ve been through a lot individually and they’re part of big families that have lots of stories going on so it was really nice to hear that I would get some material with Nadine. How did you react when you found out about Cleo and Sienna? Were you on board straight away? It was wild! Absolutely not what I was expecting. If you’d have asked me a list of things that were on the cards for Sienna, I don’t think that would have featured. It was a big surprise but I was straight on board with it because weirdly it sort of makes sense to me. When we saw Sienna with Summer in a previous relationship, it wasn’t that Sienna was changing her preferences or anything like that, with Sienna it’s all about the person. When Summer came into her life it didn’t matter that she was female – and that most of Sienna’s other partners have been male – she just found something in this person that she connected with. I absolutely believed in that relationship wholeheartedly and I think the same thing happened here
HOLLYOAKS SIENNA BLAKE CLEO MCQUEEN ANNA PASSEY NADINE MULKERRIN SOAP OPERAS TV DRAMA LGBT RELATIONSHIPS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
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