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"Hollyoaks favourite Myra McQueen has been brought back to the forefront of the soap in recent months, dealing with a fresh batch of family dramas and the arrival of the mischievous Savage clan. Mixed in with the comedy of Myra&amp;#039;s clashes with Dodger and attraction to Dirk, the devoted mum has also had more serious situations to deal with due to Jacqui&amp;#039;s rape storyline and Mercedes&amp;#039;s fake pregnancy. Digital Spy recently caught up with Nicole Barber-Lane, who plays Myra, for a chat on set at the Hollyoaks Music Show. Myra seems to be featuring on screen a lot more lately, doesn&amp;#039;t she? &amp;quot;She is and I&amp;#039;m so excited - I think it&amp;#039;s the most that I&amp;#039;ve ever worked since I&amp;#039;ve been here. It&amp;#039;s all fun stuff with bits of comedy and I&amp;#039;m loving it. It&amp;#039;s been a bit different from the stuff we were doing when I first started, but it&amp;#039;s been so much fun - all the stuff with Lamb Chop and going off to Jacqui&amp;#039;s wedding. It was so funny filming the scene when I was driving off with Nick Pickard, who plays Tony, because we actually nearly did crash! Nick is such a clumsy thing so as I was driving off, he hadn&amp;#039;t put his feet on the moped so his legs were flopping everywhere, he was leaning on me and we were heading towards the fountain! You couldn&amp;#039;t see it all on screen, but we nearly crashed into it!&amp;quot;  Does the increased screen time for Myra mean that the new boss Gareth is a particular fan of the character? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not sure - I&amp;#039;d like to think so! I think, in general, the McQueens have had a re-injection of life. Things were quite different but now we&amp;#039;re getting back to the comedy that will make you laugh on a Sunday. Myra&amp;#039;s such a funny character and you can do so many different things with her - it&amp;#039;s brilliant. She can be quite serious, she can be selfish, she can be loving and giving, she can be ridiculously stupid and she can be amazingly clever - all at the same time! What a woman!&amp;quot; Are you enjoying working with the Savage clan? &amp;quot;Yeah, they&amp;#039;re all lovely and I really enjoyed working with Dave Kennedy who plays Dirk - I hope we get more stuff together because that would be fun. We need more interaction between them all!&amp;quot; Bart, played by Jonny Clarke, also seems to have settled into the family well\u2026 &amp;quot;Oh, Jonny is so sweet - I like him and he&amp;#039;s a good guy. I&amp;#039;d like to do some more stuff with him as well. Myra loves giving him a clout or a clip round the ear! It&amp;#039;s lovely to have a fella to abuse! (Laughs)&amp;quot;  Were you surprised last year when Myra believed Bart rather than Jacqui over the stolen cash? &amp;quot;I think it was an interesting one, and it was all about what your parents believe. Myra didn&amp;#039;t want to believe that Bart had done anything wrong, and I think she&amp;#039;d also had enough of Jacqui muscling in. But obviously Myra can&amp;#039;t forgive herself, going right back to choosing Jacqui and Carmel to die in the Niall situation. From that, the dynamics of the family changed a lot and Jacqui wasn&amp;#039;t as responsive to Myra as she used to be. Slowly, Jacqui became a lot stronger than Myra, because Myra is constantly riddled with guilt. Even though she doesn&amp;#039;t show it, it&amp;#039;s still there underneath and so she&amp;#039;s been letting them get away with a lot more things than they usually would!  &amp;quot;When Myra stopped believing Jacqui, I think it was also partly because Jacqui had hid all the stuff about Theresa killing Calvin and it was Myra&amp;#039;s way of saying, &amp;#039;Listen - this is my house, my rules&amp;#039;. Maybe she was wrong, but Bart&amp;#039;s 15 so she felt that she couldn&amp;#039;t kick him out as he had nowhere else to go, and she just thought that Jacqui should behave herself!&amp;quot; Are you hoping for any romance on the horizon for Myra? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d love a romance - with whoever! It doesn&amp;#039;t matter for Myra, as long as she gets some!&amp;quot; Have you met Carmel&amp;#039;s new love interest Father Francis yet? &amp;quot;Yes, he&amp;#039;s very nice! I wouldn&amp;#039;t mind tucking him up! (Laughs) I believe he&amp;#039;s a dancer, so I&amp;#039;d like to have a dance-off with him when I&amp;#039;m a bit fitter. But can he dance with Myra?!&amp;quot;  What did you think of Jacqui and Gilly&amp;#039;s recent rape storyline? &amp;quot;It was difficult as it&amp;#039;s such a sensitive subject and it does make you think, &amp;#039;How do you react?&amp;#039; Even when she had Jacqui explaining what had happened, at first there was a part of Myra that thought, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;d never let that happen - how have you let that happen? Have you just changed your mind afterwards?&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s such a grey area, so it was nice to be part of it and understand what people are going through. Claire Cooper and Andy Moss are doing a cracking job at the moment with the aftermath of what happened. I think the most interesting part of the storyline is that, from both of their perspectives, Jacqui and Gilly both think they&amp;#039;re telling the truth - and that is so important. Unfortunately, I think that is the truth in many situations - that the guy just doesn&amp;#039;t read what&amp;#039;s going on properly, and the girl just freezes and can&amp;#039;t communicate her feelings. I think it was a really good thing for Hollyoaks to shine a light on.&amp;quot; Mercedes is pretending to be pregnant at the moment, which Myra knows about. Will Myra continue playing a role in that storyline? &amp;quot;Yeah, it&amp;#039;s really exciting. At the moment, Myra thinks that Mercedes shouldn&amp;#039;t tell the truth, as she&amp;#039;s really landed on her feet with Riley and shouldn&amp;#039;t mess it up. Also, with Warren whispering in Myra&amp;#039;s ear, she thinks that Riley will look after all of the McQueens as well and take the family out of the poverty that they&amp;#039;ve been in. Myra is getting carried away with her excited enthusiasm over what life could be like. But what&amp;#039;s important for her daughters is what&amp;#039;s the most important thing for Myra in the end. Sometimes she may forget that for a moment, but she&amp;#039;s always there for her kids.&amp;quot; Finally, a few people on our forum have been eager to see Myra form a friendship with Diane! Would you like to see that happen? &amp;quot;Oh my God, yes! It would be really great because they&amp;#039;re completely different characters. That would be brilliant. We don&amp;#039;t get to do that much stuff at the moment, but there&amp;#039;s a scene coming up where Diane comes round to the McQueens and says, &amp;#039;Look - I&amp;#039;ve found Bart in Sinead&amp;#039;s bedroom! What are you going to do about it?&amp;#039; But Myra just says, &amp;#039;Oh, I&amp;#039;ll have a word and make sure he uses protection!&amp;#039; Also, Jacqui&amp;#039;s there and jumping on the bandwagon protecting Bart. Everyone ends up arguing about it and we had a ball filming that scene.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Read our Hollyoaks news and spoilers The Hollyoaks Music Show returns for a new series on Saturday at 9.20am on Channel 4. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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