It's hard to believe that Sue Johnston is 80. The star of Brookside, The Royle Family and Waking the Dead seems decades younger when we meet to chat about her life and career - she's vibrant, funny and switched on.
Sue can hardly believe it herself. 'It feels slightly unreal because I remember my mum and my aunties at 80, and they were old ladies,' says Sue, who celebrated her birthday in December. 'I don't feel like an old lady, although I do when someone says, "Can I carry that for you?" But I've still got energy, and as long as I can learn lines and not fall over the furniture, I'll be fine.'
Sue has never been busier, either, tackling four jobs in the past year, including C4's recent drama Truelove and the upcoming zombie comedy Generation Z. And this month, she's been starring in a rare role - as herself - in Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two for More4, a travelogue in which she and her Brookside and Royle Family husband, Ricky Tomlinson, take a jaunt around parts of the UK, reminiscing about their friendship,careers and lives.
But for all Sue's outward vivacity and ability to play larger-than-life characters, she admits rather poignantly that she lacks the self-assurance to just be herself on screen. 'It's pathetic, I know, but I'm just not good at being me,' she sighs. 'Really at my age, I should know better, but it's a confidence thing and I've always had it.
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