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"Graeme Hawley has admitted that he embraced the chance to portray Coronation Street&amp;#039;s John Stape as a likeable villain. The actor recently filmed his final scenes as John, whose story is expected to reach a dramatic climax in next week&amp;#039;s post-watershed episodes of the soap. John has been involved in three deaths in the last year and is currently holding brother-in-law Chesney Brown captive in a cellar alongside the parents of Charlotte Hoyle, who was one of his victims. However, speaking on Loose Women this afternoon, Hawley commented: &amp;quot;I think the reason why the story has worked is that at the centre of it you have this incredibly boring, normal character that in any other situation, you just wouldn&amp;#039;t even look twice at him. But then you put him into the most extraordinary situations that you can possibly imagine. For me, that&amp;#039;s drama.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s always been the thing with me, to try and resist the temptation to kind of go cloak and dagger with it,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;Because apart from anything else, that&amp;#039;s been done and been done brilliantly - especially on Coronation Street. Brian Capron was brilliant [as] Richard Hillman, Tony Gordon as well. With all the soaps as well - these brilliant, deliciously bad villains.&amp;quot; Hawley went on to praise next week&amp;#039;s Corrie episodes, which focus on a life-changing few days for the Stapes. Discussing John&amp;#039;s fate, he teased: &amp;quot;There is an ending - I couldn&amp;#039;t possibly tell you what that ending is! There&amp;#039;s two episodes tonight and at the end of tonight&amp;#039;s second episode, it all blows up. And then we&amp;#039;re on Sunday and all next week at 9pm.  &amp;quot;And it&amp;#039;s a big week for Kate Kelly&amp;#039;s character Becky as well. Really, it&amp;#039;s the absolute meltdown of both those characters. It should be a brilliant week for Corrie so it&amp;#039;s really worth watching.&amp;quot; Full coverage of Corrie&amp;#039;s big week:- &amp;gt; Jennie McAlpine chats to Digital Spy &amp;gt; John Stape&amp;#039;s Corrie crime uncovered: In pictures &amp;gt; Corrie&amp;#039;s explosive week: Q&amp;amp;A with Graeme Hawley &amp;gt; Corrie&amp;#039;s explosive week: Q&amp;amp;A with Katherine Kelly &amp;gt; Corrie&amp;#039;s explosive week: Pick your favourite plot "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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