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" Waterloo Road star Laurie Brett has admitted that she doesn&amp;#039;t want her character Christine Mulgrew to stay sober. This year&amp;#039;s episodes of the BBC One drama have seen the troubled alcoholic trying to turn her life around for the sake of her teaching career and son Connor (Shane O&amp;#039;Meara).  However, in an interview with the Daily Record, Brett confessed that she finds Christine&amp;#039;s drunken scenes much more interesting to play. Brett explained: &amp;quot;Christine is just beginning to recover from alcoholism after revealing that her son was the product of rape and she is just rebuilding her life, but I hope she falls back off the wagon. I think it&amp;#039;s just better fun.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;Christine is a vile drunk so it&amp;#039;ll be interesting for her to get drunk again. I would prefer she wasn&amp;#039;t sober because it&amp;#039;s far more exciting for me to go to work and play at Christine being a nutter and kind of weird.&amp;quot;  Brett, who joined Waterloo Road after bowing out as Jane Beale in EastEnders, added that she has no plans to follow in the footsteps of other soap stars by trying to crack America. She said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not skinny enough, not young enough and not beautiful enough. Harsh maybe, but very true. I think if you are established over there in your 20s you can possibly grow older, but not many people have gone there to do it later on. &amp;quot;Ashley Jensen did, but I don&amp;#039;t know. Tim Burton told me he enjoyed my work at the Baftas in 2010 and I couldn&amp;#039;t say anything apart from, &amp;#039;I love you, too&amp;#039;. I&amp;#039;m not chomping at the bit to do it. I think I&amp;#039;d find it quite intimidating.&amp;quot; Waterloo Road returns for a new run of episodes later in the spring. Digital Spy Soap Scoop video - press play below to watch Amie Parker-Williams reveal the gossip on Tyrone&amp;#039;s Corrie trial, a shock stabbing in EastEnders, danger for Robbie in Emmerdale and Clare&amp;#039;s Hollyoaks return.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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