Jennifer Metcalfe, who plays Mercedes McQueen on Channel 4's Hollyoaks, got emotional while discussing her character's new battle with bowel cancer. The actress shared how the storyline deeply resonates with her due to losing her father to cancer at a young age.
Hollyoaks star Jennifer Metcalfe teared up while speaking about her new Mercedes McQueen storyline. The star, 41, who has played the mouthy mother in the Channel 4 soap since 2006, is taking on one of her most challenging plots ever as she battles bowel cancer after the time jump.
Jennifer appeared on the September 22 episode of Sunday Brunch alongside hosts Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer where she revealed the heartbreaking real-life connection and told how she struggled to rehearse some scenes, reports the Mirror. "The scriptwriters are amazing and when they give you the script I can’t even really rehearse it and I ask if we can just go straight for the take because it really does hit home.”
Top news stories today “This is real life for some people and when they make such a strong character like Mercedes like that and they put the wig on and the makeup, I can barely look at myself without crying.”
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