00:00someone at the door i think i went a bit early there sorry who could it be what is this
00:07if i
00:07could get into it oh let me see invitation ruth you are cordially invited to coronation streets
00:17dinner party from hell
00:22not sure i want to go to that but corrie's maria uh she's going to save your seat next to
00:28her so
00:28maria long chambon is going to be telling me about a night to remember or possibly forget on the
00:34cobble sea otters good luck yes good luck thank you and what a great competition right time for
00:45my guest now uh samia longchambon has been resident on the corrie cobbles for more than 25 years
00:52quarter of a century can you believe it uh next week maria is in for some of her most dramatic
00:57scenes ever with a murderer unmasked and a confrontation so here's a clip from monday
01:04night and can i just say maria's claws are out hello oh enda oh look at you all dolled up
01:12didn't realize it was a competition it's not you look lovely yeah well it's not like i'm desperate
01:19to impress anyone is going to impress anyone is it go on me and gary don't be rude what sarah's
01:26got all dressed up for you the least you can do is say hello
01:31uh thanks for having us oh do you worry have a nice
01:39carrie kit
01:42i think that's what the young people call orcs it's giving me the it's giving me the it's all a
01:47bit
01:48orcs it's all a bit intense it was so awkward even filming it it was really awkward but it was
01:53loads of
01:54fun i love it so this is kit and sarah have kind of decided to have this dinner party well
02:01yeah but we've
02:02kind of been invited by default oh and because gary and maria aren't someone who you think would be at
02:10that dinner party so it kind of happens by mistake in the rovers and how we all end up there
02:15because
02:16kit is actually planning to propose to sarah that night so really kit didn't want any of us there
02:20he didn't want any of this to happen none of us he's expecting yeah i mean i have to say
02:26i absolutely
02:27love this picture you know the poster that they've got and straight away i'm like oh that looks dark
02:32that looks dramatic yeah um how was it to film because it's all done obviously because we see
02:38this is an hour long on monday isn't it um how was it to film i know you can't give
02:43away too much
02:43we wouldn't want you to we wouldn't want you to and i feel awful sitting here and i'm like yeah
02:47i want
02:47to talk about it but i don't want to talk about it because i don't i don't want to give
02:51anything
02:51away but am i right in thinking it was all done almost as if it was one scene as much
02:56as you could
02:57yeah absolutely i think it's the first half of the episode is just one scene mind you that's it's
03:03an hour long so the first 15 minutes is just one scene which is this scene that we're seeing now
03:08um and it was like a 21 page scene and it was great because we actually had a read-through
03:13with
03:14the director and we blocked it all on set like the week before we were filming it but she wouldn't
03:18normally have time to do it no it's a massive luxury to do that so it felt like we were
03:22filming
03:22something else entirely it was great but also pressure i would imagine because you know if
03:27everyone's if you've got 15 minutes you know doing it's all in one take and then suddenly you
03:31forget your lines yeah yeah yeah i'm not you're always learning lines but did you worry about that
03:37we kind of broke it down into three sections so the pressure was off a bit and it really sort
03:43of
03:43ramps up towards the end of the scene like maria really ramps up at the end of the scene oh
03:47i love
03:47maria when she's got her claws out i know it was so much fun and i feel like it had
03:51been building
03:51up and building up because we're seeing on screen at the moment she's got her suspicions about gary
03:56and sarah and we can't blame her yeah absolutely at home and we don't know what's going on um and
04:02every time we see maria and not maria we see um gary and sarah they're always huddled somewhere
04:08whispering and looking a bit yeah so we know something's going on something is going on we just don't know
04:14what but you are going to find out on monday and do we find out theo's murderer
04:21you're allowed to tell us that yeah not who is here's obviously but with that so all in that
04:25episode on monday it's gonna come out it's all gonna come out i mean yeah i mean maria is kind
04:33of low down on the list absolutely but you know it could be totally out of left field who it
04:39is
04:39yeah i mean it what a great storyline to be involved in it's been yeah it's been loads of fun
04:46it's and
04:46there's so many twists and turns to it as well because obviously after it comes out it's going to
04:52have a knock-on effect for lots of different people so yeah which is why we love it well you
04:57know i'm a
04:57massive corey fan i mean 25 years so how old were you when you joined so i joined april 2000
05:04and i was 17
05:05and had you been to drama school so was that a yeah yeah yeah so we went i went to
05:10drama school with alan
05:11yeah in west i wrote and so yeah alan has always been like a brother to me and and kirk
05:17who andy who plays kirk
05:18who plays my brother he was my first friend that i ever made at drama school when i was six
05:23so was this was
05:24corey your first job straight out of drama school uh no well we say drama school it was like a
05:29saturday
05:30drama saturday and wednesday we used to and we'd put like shows on and alan rothwell was actually our
05:34teacher for a good few years he sadly passed away recently um but yeah so i was my first job
05:42was when
05:42i was 11 in cracker yeah remember with robbie poltrain yeah that was so you always knew you wanted to
05:48do this and be an actress yeah i knew i wanted to do something in the industry i feel like
05:53if acting
05:54hadn't have worked out i would have quite liked to go behind camera and do directing or something
05:58like that but luckily yeah yeah i mean yeah never say no but luckily it's planned out all right so
06:04far
06:04and obviously you know you've got this amazing career you know all these years in corey meanwhile
06:09you know with a young family but your daughter has just done her gcs yeah freya i was going to
06:15say
06:15o levels which shows how old yeah yeah well it's all changed as well now it's like grade one to
06:20nine
06:20instead of a to f or whatever um but yeah she's finished on monday so it's been a lot of
06:25stress
06:25in the household a lot of stress yeah but um i've actually brought her down to london with me so
06:30we're going to go shopping for the day afterwards yeah have a little bit of a little celebrate yeah
06:34she deserves it she has been revising a lot since january so yeah so she's worked hard so whatever the
06:41results got everything crossed yeah you've got everything crossed no pressure i've got everything
06:45crossed for you on the party yeah i have as well on monday i can't wait to find out thank
06:50you so
06:51much i'd love to everyone at corey thank you thank you very much samir and don't forget corey continues
06:55tonight on itv one cannot wait uh this morning's next to andrew and dermott are there good morning
07:02hello hey how you doing uh well what a show we've got i think it's just like jason and marriage
07:07in the
07:07studio three brilliant dads are getting a father's day makeover plus bear with us if freddie the
07:15mystic monkey is back after his stunning success uh to present the results of stockland versus morocca
07:24and lorraine is live in boston with her reaction which i cannot wait for and that's why i'm here
07:31because lorraine is in boston waiting for the monkey um i've had a great time today thanks for having me
07:36and that is all we've got uh strictly's veto diane will be here on monday have a lovely weekend
07:41stay full goodbye good luck scotland
