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" Waterloo Road airs the first scenes of new cast member Caitlin Gillespie next week, as her troubled character Lisa Brown joins the school with twin brother Lenny. The actress has been filming with the BBC show since April following a two-year stint as Christina Michalka on Scottish soap River City. Digital Spy recently chatted to Caitlin to hear all the gossip on the drama ahead for the Brown twins. How have you found settling into life at Waterloo Road? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been very easy to settle in, just because the cast and crew are so lovely. Because I did River City before this, I&amp;#039;d met a few of the Waterloo Road cast before at events and award ceremonies. That made things a lot easier, because it was just like catching up with friends. The time really has flown by - I can&amp;#039;t believe that I started filming in April.&amp;quot; Is working on Waterloo Road similar to River City? &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re quite similar in terms of filming and the day-to-day routine, but the main change for me is that the character I&amp;#039;m playing on Waterloo Road is so different to the one that I played on River City!&amp;quot; Were you sad to say goodbye to River City? &amp;quot;I was, as I&amp;#039;d been there for two years and it was that show which started my career. I learned so much from doing River City, as I was only 17 when I started it.  &amp;quot;At the same time, I was so happy about moving over to Waterloo Road, because it&amp;#039;s a national show and a great programme. I was proud of what I&amp;#039;d done on River City, but also happy to be moving onto new things. As actors, we always want to move onto new roles and challenges.&amp;quot; Waterloo Road has a much bigger online fanbase, so are you looking forward to that interaction with the viewers? &amp;quot;Definitely. Already so many people have been in touch on Twitter. It&amp;#039;s quite terrifying, because Waterloo Road has such a big fanbase and you don&amp;#039;t know how they&amp;#039;re going to react to a new character. But I do know that the fans are so loyal and supportive of the show, so hopefully it&amp;#039;ll be fine!&amp;quot;  What can we expect from Lisa? &amp;quot;Lisa comes as part of a pair, as she joins the school with her twin brother Lenny. She&amp;#039;s definitely the more dominant twin. Lisa is very tough, very headstrong and she&amp;#039;s been let down in the past, so she deals with that by creating quite a tough exterior.&amp;quot; We&amp;#039;ve heard that Lisa and Lenny don&amp;#039;t really get a warm welcome from the other students due to their dishevelled appearance. Could they make some friends in time? &amp;quot;I think time is a great healer - it changes everything. They do find it quite tough when they join the school, and Lisa doesn&amp;#039;t help herself at all. She actually makes it worse! Lisa and Lenny stick together, and that&amp;#039;s the best thing. They&amp;#039;ve done that for years and it&amp;#039;s the best way for them to get through tough situations.&amp;quot; Can you tell us a bit more about the twins&amp;#039; troubled background? &amp;quot;For a long time, it&amp;#039;s just been the twins and their older brother Larry. They all look out for each other, because they haven&amp;#039;t had anyone else around to help them. It&amp;#039;s been quite tough for them.&amp;quot; The story touches on real-life issues such as poverty and fitting in at a new school, so are you hoping to raise some awareness as well? &amp;quot;Raising awareness of various different topics is one thing that Waterloo Road does so well. They&amp;#039;re so good at it and they do the storylines so much justice. I&amp;#039;d like to think we could raise some awareness, as it&amp;#039;d be amazing.&amp;quot; Is it true that we can expect some tension when History teacher Audrey interferes in the twins&amp;#039; lives? &amp;quot;Definitely! Audrey&amp;#039;s heart is completely in the right place, and she&amp;#039;s just trying to look out for the twins. Unfortunately, Lisa has been let down so many times that she doesn&amp;#039;t trust anybody and her natural reaction is to always put her defences up and not let anybody in. She doesn&amp;#039;t react well to Audrey&amp;#039;s interference whatsoever\u2026&amp;quot;  Sometimes new characters are kept in the background at first, so were you pleased to come in with a bang? &amp;quot;100%! To be so heavily involved in the first episode of a new series is so exciting. Like I said earlier, there&amp;#039;s a lot of pressure and it&amp;#039;s a bit scary, but hopefully the audience will get to know our characters and really enjoy them. Being so central in episode one will hopefully help with that.&amp;quot; Does Lisa stay prominent throughout the series? &amp;quot;She goes through phases of being really busy, quieter again and then back to being busy. Lisa is always up to mischief, though, which is her usual thing!&amp;quot; Which characters does Lisa share a lot of screen time with? &amp;quot;Mostly the teachers, purely because she&amp;#039;s such a troublesome child! Maggie takes the twins under her wing, because that&amp;#039;s what she does best. There&amp;#039;s also a lot more scenes with Audrey, and you&amp;#039;ll see that Lisa and Lenny remain quite a troublesome twosome.&amp;quot; Who have you bonded with on set? &amp;quot;Joe Slater who plays Lenny - we get on very, very well. We&amp;#039;re like brother and sister in real life! I&amp;#039;m also really close to Rebecca Craven who plays Rhiannon. We share a dressing room together and she was one of the people who really went out of her way to make me feel welcome and one of the gang.&amp;quot; Do you have any plans for when your first episode airs? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll definitely be watching it, but it&amp;#039;ll be on my own behind a pillow! My mum wanted to have a party for it, but I&amp;#039;m staying clear!&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Read our spoiler for the next episode of &amp;#039;Waterloo Road&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Read more &amp;#039;Waterloo Road&amp;#039; spoilers and news Waterloo Road launches its new series on Thursday, September 5 at 8pm on BBC One. 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