Coronation Street’s Theo Silverton star ‘glad he’s dead’ after murder exit
The actor opened up about Theo Silverton’s death on the ITV cobbles
James Cartwright played the menacing Theo Silverton(Image: ITV)
Coronation Street’s Theo Silverton star admitted he’s “glad he’s dead” after his murderous exit was finally confirmed in the ITV soap.
On Friday (May 1) night, after months of lead up, the villain was seen meeting a deadly end as he was revealed as the victim of a shock murder on the famous cobbles.
As viewers will recall, actor James Cartwright made his Corrie debut in March last year as builder Theo. Although married to wife Danielle, he found himself in a relationship with Todd Grimshaw.
Things soon shifted, however, and their romance turned into a hard-hitting, coercively controlling, and abusive relationship storyline that left viewers fearing for Todd.
Theo’s behaviour was soon exposed to Todd’s loved ones who were desperate to save him. Todd managed to eventually escape after Theo left him bloodied and bruised in a devastating attack.
He was one of the five possible victims of a murder set to take place on the cobbles, and last week each night saw a different potential victim storyline play out.
Viewers watched as Todd played a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse to outsmart a vengeful Theo, and Summer Spellman found herself caught in the crossfire when she came face-to-face with a sinister Theo. Soon, outside, a jovial Betsy was given the shock of her life as she stumbled across the villain’s lifeless body.
Theo Silverton was confirmed as the murder victim(Image: ITV)
Appearing on This Morning for the first time following his exit, James admitted he’s “glad” that Theo was the one to die following an 18-month storyline of horrific abuse.
He said: “I’m glad he’s dead. The world is better off for less people like that.” When asked what it’s been like playing a character like Theo, the actor added: “When I’ve been shouting a lot, if you’ve spent all day shouting the brain knows you’re acting but the body doesn’t, so all the adrenaline it does that as a response. You sort of carry it with you.”
Touching on the scene where Theo grabbed Todd and shoved a kebab into his face, he admitted: “I was holding the back of his neck, he would try to pull away, and then I got in the car on my lunchtime and I had a little cry just because it was a release of adrenaline.”
He continued: “Same sex domestic violence has never been done before, we know the lines of a man should never hit a woman. We’re quite clear on that power dynamic, but men and men, even though it shouldn’t, feels a bit grey in people’s minds. Well men fight, that’s what men do, they have a straightener.
“But that isn’t that, and people have come up to me in train stations and different things and said, ‘that’s happened to my friend’, and I think soap does that very, very well because it never ends… In Coronation Street you’ve got the benefit of it being played out slowly over the period so they’ve been able to show it in real time.”
