Coronation Street’s Pauline McLynn: ‘Maggie has met her match in Megan’

Coronation Street star Pauline McLynn has revealed that her character will have “a proper go” at her grandson’s abuser in next week’s episodes.

Teacher Megan’s (Beth Dixon) affair with teenager Will (Lucas Hodgson-Wale) has finally been exposed this month, leaving the youngster’s family horrified and demanding answers.

With Will still denying everything, next week Maggie decides to take matters into her own hands and goes to confront Megan directly.

“Maggie is a woman of action,” said McLynn, who has been on the cobbles since last October. “I mean, there are matters with the police over the grooming of the grandson, but I think she feels that the law moves at a very slow pace and for rules that she does not have to play by.

“They also have to be really careful of how they approach any situation whereas Maggie’s more of a blunt instrument. She just thinks, ‘look, I’m going to solve this, sort it out, I’ll find her. I’ll warn her off’.

“I have to say, we’ll see a splendidly devious side of Maggie because no-one knows exactly where Megan has gone to hide and Maggie finds out in a very underhanded way. I was quite pleased when I saw that! But she does what nobody else would do, she goes to all kinds of lengths to find out wherever Megan is and then she goes to confront her because nothing else is working.

“So, there’s some more splendid rows to be had, splendid fighting and all very enjoyable to do. Even including, I’m not going to lie, by accident or otherwise as is the way of Maggie’s life, there are physical fights. Oh, yes, she’s not above getting her hands dirty at all.”

As for Maggie’s perspective on Megan, she continued: “I think to be honest with you, she’s met her match very much in Megan, who it doesn’t seem will stop at nothing to get what she wants and is a brilliant liar like Maggie is, or a concealer of the truth, let’s say. They’re quite well matched like that.

“So it’s really wonderful to see two women from opposite sides of an argument having a proper go at one another. And of course, solidifying Maggie’s absolute total loyalty to family and will do pretty much anything to keep it intact or safe.”

New episodes of Coronation Street drop weekdays at 7am on ITVX and air the same night at 8.30pm on ITV1.

Picture Spoilers: Next week on Coronation Street (March 29-April 3)