Debbie Rush wants Anna Windass to be the one to bring down Pat Phelan in Coronation Street.
The actress – who plays cafe worker Anna in the ITV soap – has said she has been playing the storyline with Anna’s justice in mind after she was Phelan’s first victim when he raped her.
With both Debbie and Connor McIntyre, who plays evil Phelan, confirmed to be leaving the show, this could mean that Debbie gets her wish.
The actress told DigitalSpy: “As a woman… I know there has been a debate for some time over did he [Phelan] rape her [Anna] or didn’t he rape her?
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“Well, he did, because she was coerced into having sex with him to protect her family.
“We’ve just done the Bethany storyline and the nation is on Bethany’s side and knows she was groomed and raped. Anna was a grown woman who was groomed and raped.
“That’s the way I’ve played it and that’s why, for me, Anna should be the one to bring him down with justice.”
But while both actors are leaving, there is still lots of opportunity for drama as the pair circle each other on the cobbles.
“I’ve found the Phelan storyline a fantastic opportunity to play cat and mouse,” actress Debbie added to the Sun Online.
“I’m the mouse and he’s the cat. We’ve let it gently bubble and boil until this crescendo we have now.
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“I think the public thought for a while that it was going away and it hasn’t.
“They want Anna to bring him down – I still get little old ladies and even young lads shouting, ‘Oi, Anna, when you gonna get Phelan?’.
“So everyone wants him done in, and they all want Anna to do it.”