Mikey North says pandemic changed Coronation Street plot

Mikey North\'s \'Coronation Street\' plot changed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The 33-year-old actor - who plays Gary Windass in the ITV soap - has revealed that a storyline involving his character and Sarah Barlow had to be amended because of the health crisis.

Speaking to Radio Times, Mikey explained: "The stunt involving Gary and Sarah was meant to take us back to the woods where Rick is buried.

"It changed quite a lot from what we had planned just before lockdown, hopefully it has not lost any of the effect.

"We brought a flavour of the original idea back to the street where we could film it. The scripts were really good and it felt great shooting it, so hopefully we got to the same ending."

Mikey conceded that coronavirus restrictions have had a dramatic impact on the filming process.

However, the actor is thankful that he\'s been able to return to work after spending months in lockdown.

He said: "We are having to shoot things quite differently and there is more camera trickery to make us look like we are closer than we are.

"The crew are fantastic and the scripts have been edited in a way we can film it. Trying to keep the distance is not easy and makes certain scenes pretty tricky, but it\'s just nice to be back and having the opportunity to work again.

"We are so fortunate to be on a soap as there are so many actors who would love to be working right now."