{"id":58811,"date":"2026-08-16T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/actor-nathan-sussex-emotional-over-coronation-street-role\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:28:08","slug":"actor-nathan-sussex-emotional-over-coronation-street-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/actor-nathan-sussex-emotional-over-coronation-street-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Nathan Sussex &#8217;emotional&#8217; over Coronation Street role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Walking along Coronation Street&#8217;s iconic cobble streets was &#8220;quite emotional&#8221; for Welsh actor Nathan Sussex.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Hollyoaks&#8217; villain Buster, he&#8217;s no stranger to appearing in big roles on the small screen but even he found being on the soap opera set a pinch-me moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be there, like doing a job there, walking down these famous cobbles, honestly, it really gets to you,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Corrie means so much to so many people. It is a national institution. We&#8217;ve all grown up on it at some point in our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said storyline writers had yet to tell him what&#8217;s ultimately in store for his character, Richie Parkinson, who&#8217;s involved in a murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m00308tj\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Radio Wales&#8217; Lucy Owen<\/a> that the storyline could build up toward the ITV show&#8217;s popular Christmas episodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex won TV&#8217;s Villain of the Year for his role in Hollyoaks in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also appeared in a host of other shows including Casualty, Emmerdale, It&#8217;s a Sin and Men Up, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, said he grew up watching Corrie in the 1980s, with characters like barmaid Bet Lynch whom he described as an &#8220;icon&#8221;, famous for her beehive hairstyle and giant earrings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpq8819n8ego?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along Coronation Street&#8217;s iconic cobble streets was &#8220;quite emotional&#8221; for Welsh actor Nathan Sussex. As Hollyoaks&#8217; villain Buster, he&#8217;s no stranger to appearing in big roles on the small screen but even he found being on the soap opera set a pinch-me moment. &#8220;To be there, like doing a job there, walking down these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[478,2427,1231,10161,270,434,4182],"class_list":["post-58811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-actor","tag-coronation","tag-emotional","tag-nathan","tag-role","tag-street","tag-sussex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58813,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58811\/revisions\/58813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}