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Speaking to Express.co.uk as he returns to the stage after a decade of delighting fans on a range of UK soaps, Glen Wallace shared his eager hopes to return to Coronation Street. Glen entered the cast as Lucas in the midst of the pandemic and, as a result, the only Corrie he knows includes “a two-metre-stick person”.
Glen’s character Lucas was introduced to the show as an old acquaintance and potential romantic entanglement for fan-favourite Carla Connor, played by Alison King.
Fans last saw Lucas in April 2021 as he mysteriously disappeared from the street, but Glen is eager to return.
The actor declared: “I’d happily go back. If you do a job and have a good time of course you want to go back.
“With Lucas I thought we’d scratched the surface, I thought there was mileage in it.”
Glen joked that the only time a return is not possible in soaps is “when you’re dead”, adding: “And even Dallas changed that, if you can bring JR back so anything can happen.”
Although the actor only spent four months on the show, he explained that this is how “the world of soaps” works.
Using his lengthy stint on EastEnders as an example, Glen revealed: “I went in for three episodes and was there for over two and a half years.
“Once you get in and the producers like you then there’s a relationship on-screen with other characters and the writers get to know you then they pitch ideas for that character.”
Having run for six decades, Corrie had to make a few drastic changes during the pandemic in order to continue filming.
As Glen joined in January 2021, he explained that the Corrie he knows is vastly different to what the series regulars were used to.
He said: “It was all one-way systems and two metres apart. It was the only Corrie that I encountered as opposed to (Alison King).
“For her, she’s been doing that job for years so she’s used to coming out of her dressing room and turning left and now there’s a big arrow saying ‘no turn right’.
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“Location scouts, obviously they weren’t working on location, so they were deployed as the two-metre-stick-person.
“They genuinely sat with a mask on and a long two-metre stick and as you rehearsed they would come in and measure.”
Glen revealed that using tricking perspective meant audiences wouldn’t have noticed the constant two-metre gap between actors throughout the pandemic episodes.
He continued: “Being an actor is all about make-believe so if something like a bit of distance is going to put you off you probably want to give up the job.”
However, it wasn’t just on set where the Corrie experience had to change, as Glen missed out on interacting with his fellow castmates outside of work too.
He shared: “We were encouraged to stay in our dressing rooms as opposed to sitting in the green room, the chairs had been taken away, rightfully so.
“They had a duty of care to everybody who worked on the show.”
Glen is still incredibly grateful for his time on the street, but after a decade on television he is happily returning to the stage this month alongside Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch in Under the Black Rock.
While he admits he’s been confronted with some technological changes since he was last on stage, he is “only going back to what I knew”, having sparked his love for acting as a teenager in the Grand Opera House in Belfast.
Under The Black Rock is showing at Arcola Theatre until March 25.
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