They'll regret feeding
me to the fishes
By David O'Dornan
FURIOUS axed Street star Sean Wilson came out fighting yesterday and told the News of the World he's trout for revenge.
The man who's played Martin Platt for 20 years is determined to prove himself as an actor in ‘quality' film, theatre and TV roles.
"I don't care, I have bigger fish to fry," he told us exclusively.
"I've been fed up playing the same character for so long, I know I have more strings to my bow than the stereotypical soap role.
"What they don't realise is that when they told me they were getting rid of me, they did me a favour.
"My wings have been clipped, but no longer. It's not a question of maybe, I am going to try different stuff and I am going to prove to everybody that I am an actor."
He's confident he can be a success away from the famous cobbles of the Street.
"People have always thought Sean Wilson is Martin Platt—and that's it. Now in two or three years people will be saying, ‘Jesus Christ, we didn't realise he was that good'. That's what I want people to say."
After he learned he was getting the sack from his £125,000-a-year role, keen angler Sean, 40, fled to his favourite place—the Irish village of Oughterard in Co Galway. Sean, pictured here with a brown trout he caught on Friday, took a break from fishing on Lough Corrib to talk about his exit from the soap at the end of the year.
Martin is not being killed off, leaving the way open for a return. But as he knocked back pints of Guinness, Sean said: "The phrase they used was ‘We want to give the character a rest'. But if they ask me to go back I might be doing something else—I'll be holding all the cards then.
"I was told that the writers needed oxygen in the character to let him breathe and that my character was emotionally pushed into a corner. That's a long-winded way of telling me they'd had enough of me. I could take the hint and told them I understood."
Sean denied reports that he had fallen out with bosses in a dispute over the storyline that saw cradle-snatcher Martin dating 16-year-old schoolgirl Katy—a relationship that ended with her killing dad Tommy before committing suicide.
But Sean admitted he had put his foot down when they hatched plans for Martin to have sex with an even younger girl—asking him to play a paedophile. He revealed: "There was no major fall-out over the Katy plot, although they were thinking of a different story with a younger girl and I told them I didn't want to do that—it was a step too far for me."
Sean, who has a wife Gaynor and kids Callum, seven, and five-year-old Maisie, added: "Leaving the soap sits rather comfortably really. I'm not upset about it in the least. I didn't see it coming, but it is something I've been thinking about for a couple of years so it was nice when it happened.
"I can't wait to quit because not only will I spend quality time with my family, I'll also do some quality work.
"I'm now able to sit back and think that I'll be able to do all the things that I've been thinking about for a couple of years, like theatre and films and TV.
"If there is any chance of me making a movie I'm going to make as many in-roads into the British film scene as I can.
"I think I've learned a lot of things over the years, but I just want to take my skills a lot further."
Highlights of his time on the Street include Martin's rush to stop lover Gail aborting their son David in 1990, the couple's marriage the following year, the stalker saga when fellow nursing student Carmel Finnan became obsessed and flings with nurses Cathy Power and Rebecca Hopkins.
But the killer Katy plot was his biggest and saw him almost killed by her brother Craig when he fiddled with the brakes of his car
Sean said: "I may be a household name as Martin Platt, but as an actor hopefully I've covered myself in a bit of glory. "I want to take that on and become the kind of actor I really want to be."
Despite being at odds with his bosses, Sean refuses to bad-mouth any of his soap colleagues. He said: "I'm not going to say a bad word about any of the actors I worked with. I've got friends in the soap, but at the end of the day showbusiness is a cut-throat business. Life will move on for them and I can tell you that life is definitely going to move on for me.
Future
"I still have a lot of pals on the soap but that doesn't mean I'm going to miss the camaraderie on set—it's not as if our ties are cut, I'm just not working there any more and that's fine by me."
Sean has escaped the showbiz life by fishing on Lough Corrib for the past nine years, always staying at the Boat Inn.
He said: "I come out here to get away from it all. Everybody loves fishing. In my local in Manchester, if I mention the word ‘fish' everybody turns their back like I've got a disease."
Looking ahead to his last day in Corrie, he said: "For years to make my money on the Street was easy, but I'm 40 now and I've got things to prove.
"I know there's a better future ahead.
"There will be no emotion when I leave, not even on my final day on set.
"I'll be glad, it will be more like a release."
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