Sian Reese-Williams, better known to fans of the ITV soap Emmerdale, as Gennie Walker for over 700 episodes, has revealed she had a difficult time on the soap series because of all the public attention.
“I found that quite difficult, it was a struggle for me. When you are in a soap opera, there is a kind of ownership, because people see you every night.
“You’re in their living room every night, and people forget that you’re a person sometimes, and the things people feel they can say to you are too personal…And there’s a lot of people who aren’t very nice, and that can be tricky.”
“The things people said about her [the character] were ‘unlucky in love’, ‘ugly duckling’…When you hear that every day for five years, for me, that had an effect on my confidence, and it took quite a lot of time to deal with that. And still now, when I hear a negative voice in my head, I know it comes from that period.”
Sian’s interview will be part of the new S4C series Taith Bywyd which airs Sunday, January 14th, 2024 on at 9:00pm
This episode will see Sian reunite with one of Emmerdale’s biggest stars at the time, Sammy Winward, who played Katie Sugden for 14 years and became Sian’s close friend.
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