Hollyoaks: Who Shot Mercedes? Mercedes | The 'Victim'

28 October 2019

Mercedes is shot this week, what was your reaction when you heard about this?

I thought “it’s about bloomin’ time” – she’s an absolute wrong one, she rubs eeryone up the wrong way and I’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner…

 

Can you tell us why people might want Mercedes dead?

The reason why people might want Mercedes dead is because she’s done a lot of wrong things to a lot of people. For example: Grace – Mercedes did do the hit and run and Grace has just found out, so she is going to be after her, especially after putting her in a wheelchair; James – he’s after her because he actually thinks that she did kill Harry, so he’s on her case; Sylver – because she’s had an affair and kept the hit and run away from him; Diane – I mean Mercedes absolutely attacks her in the big scene where it all comes out. I absolutely loved filming it, it was like a six-page scene where I literally attacked everyone in there, so there’s loads of reasons why people want a shot and pretty much everyone’s got a good reason why they want to shoot her!

 

Were you worried that Mercedes might get killed off?

No! Mercedes is never going to die, she can’t die, I don’t think it’s possible, she’ll be the first person to live forever I think, I think she’s immortal, absolutely.

 

Can you tell us about the moment that Grace plays Mercedes’ confession to everyone?

It’s absolutely brilliant when she plays the confession. I think everyone in there is shocked at first because they don’t have Mercedes down as anything to do with Grace’s hit and run, and literally when Grace does it, Mercedes’ face falls, she can’t believe it, she’s right in the middle of everyone and there’s no getting out of it, and it’s a really good moment – the bitch is getting her comeuppance. She can’t get out of this, Mercedes always finds a way to worm her way out of everything, but there’s no getting away with this, it is what it is and it just looks like she killed Harry too.

 

Is this the moment she’s been dreading since the hit and run happened?

Yea, she’s had so much anxiety about Sylver finding out, about everyone finding out, what people would think. She’d know that it did look like she killed Harry if she was anything to do with the hit and run. It’s been months and months of lying and hiding secrets with Liam, which also involves the affair, so this moment is her worst nightmare.

 

Have you had fun playing bad Mercedes this year?

I’ve absolutely loved it, I always love it like this, I just think she’s the best when she’s being like this. I do like it when she’s with Sylver and the kids and she plays the whole mum and wife role, but to come into work each day and play a character like that so far from yourself and a complete escapism is really good. I get a lot out of my days when she’s being like this, I come away thinking I did a good job there, I enjoy it.

 

Playing the family Mercedes and the bad Mercedes, is it like playing two different characters?

Yea and I think that’s the good thing about the character and why I’m so in love with her 13 years later because I can explore all these different avenues and it’s like having loads of different characters, but within the one. There are so many different sides to her and that’s what keeps me interested and what keeps her so interesting.

 

Why for Mercedes is the affair worse than Sylver knowing about the hit and run?

I think because she knows deep down that a mistake is a mistake, but a calculated affair is something different. The affair is directed at Sylver, the hit and run is not directed at him, he can judge her for that or whatever he wants but it wasn’t directed at him, if you have an affair with someone it’s hurting him, so I think that’s why. She knows that he’s very kind, very gentle and the last thing she wants to do is hurt him.

 

If you could bring any character in from another TV show to play Mercedes’ next love interest, who would it be?

The last thing I ever watched was Grey’s Anatomy so, go on then I’ll have McDreamy; I think she’d run rings round him though.