Nixon, 25, studied drama at York College before getting a place at The Arden School of Theatre in Manchester. <\/p>\n
She said she auditioned twice for parts in Coronation Street before being cast as Walsh.<\/p>\n
Ahead of filming, she said she had to “delve into research” to prepare for the role. <\/p>\n
“I have to do it justice to serve the people who have been through it,” she told BBC Radio York.<\/p>\n
“There’s been a rise in cases, and a few in Manchester [where Coronation Street is based], so you just have to try and handle it with as much care as you possibly can.”<\/p>\n
Nixon said that, as the plotline develops, Will “comes to realise he is a victim [and that] it’s not love and she will get her comeuppance”.<\/p>\n
Luneta Tajblova, a senior practitioner at Barnado’s TIGER service, which supports exploited children, said she hoped shining a spotlight on the issue might help a young person realise they are being groomed.<\/p>\n
“That’s what makes grooming so dangerous and so insidious,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes it might be that they’ve been groomed in the past and they’re out of that situation, but still don’t quite realise that that’s what’s happened.”<\/p>\n
She said the charity had been consulted about the storyline to ensure it was believable, not overly sensationalist and “trauma informed”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nixon, 25, studied drama at York College before getting a place at The Arden School of Theatre in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-388087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}