Soap star Julia Goulding has said a "big stunt" they filmed for the Coronation Street and Emmerdale crossover episode left her feeling like fictional adventurer Lara Croft.
Corriedale, airing on Monday night, will show Goulding's character, Shona Platt, being tended to at the roadside by Emmerdale paramedic Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant) following a multiple vehicle crash.
Shona, who is pregnant, appears alongside her husband David, played by Jack P Shepherd, and more than a dozen other residents appear across the episode as well.
Asked what it was like to film the crossover episode, Coronation Street star Goulding told BBC Breakfast: "Crazy. It really was, I think, just the more into the shoot that we got, the more I realised how much had gone into making this episode.
"We were on the night shoots for, I think, a grand total of six weeks. I personally, was on for about three. And then the before, the after… the whole thing has been really exciting."
Goulding added: "There was a big stunt. I was in the mini bus. I had a harness on.
"Felt very much like Lara Croft, and for that day, luckily, I didn’t have to wear the baby bump either.
"We had to do a really big physical warm-up before getting into the harnesses, because we were hanging by obviously different parts of our body that aren’t used to taking our full weight.
"And then Duncan (Foster), our director, he was marvellous, because he sort of kept us out of the harnesses as much as possible so we weren’t in pain. But yeah, it was great. It was really fun to do."
The hour-long special will air on 5 January at 8pm on Virgin Media One.
Source: Press Association
