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Maggie goes to visit Megan and then that situation escalates. What do you think is Maggie’s aim when she goes to visit Megan at her new flat?
Yeah, well, Maggie is a woman of action. 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.
What does she think about Megan?
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.
The situation with Megan when she goes over does escalate and Megan ends up reporting Maggie for assault. So when that happens, is Maggie worried?
She obviously denies it…
She dismisses it as kind of nonsense, a waste of everyone’s time to be complaining about this. A little bit of rough and tumble, things escalated a little, let’s get on with it. You know? That’s if denying it in the first place hasn’t worked, she then goes, “look, it could have happened to anyone! It’s just the way it was going, she escalated it, not me!” She’s not a woman who backs down easily, I will say that.
In the end, she ends up going to visit Megan again to have it out. Is that a wise idea?
Positively not, no! I think people would be disappointed if we didn’t see her having another go, having not had any satisfaction from the first go of running the woman out of town. She’ll just go again and keep going until it happens, that’s if Megan doesn’t disappear first or whatever. Even then, you’ll see that Maggie has ways of finding people, simple as that. Like a mini dark web for herself, without the technical expertise, but there you go.
This week after she confronts Will, she ends up having a strange reaction to some words Ben says that spark his suspicions about his dad…
That’s a whole bag of hornets that’s just waiting to be unleashed. It’s a really big secret and I feel sorry for her sometimes in terms of growing up as a young mother, it was a certain time, certain era, it’s no wonder that it’s never been common knowledge that she had some sort of happenings with Jim McDonald him. Ben has made some remarks that hit a nerve and as bad as we think this turmoil is, I suspect there’ll be a lot more!
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