[on her
Coronation Street (1960) character] "I could never have imagined I would stay
with that character all that time. It had its own challenges and
interest because it was like doing something in miniature rather than a
big painting ... [Mavis] had great integrity, and she was a very loyal
person. She would stick by her morality. She was a mouse to begin with,
and then she met Derek and that did change, and she learnt to be quite
tough."