Colson Smith thinks he had a “excellent” exit from ‘Coronation Road’.
The 26-year-old actor bowed out of the present on Wednesday (21.05.25) after 14 years when his alter ego, PC Craig Tinker, was killed off after dying from the accidents he sustained when brutally attacked by Mick Michaelis (Joe Layton) when he acquired in his method within the earlier episode.
Colson discovered final yr that he was to depart the present and he advised producer Kate Brooks he’d be pleased to be killed off, and he was significantly pleased to search out out Craig would die a “hero’s demise”.
Talking to reporters, he mentioned: “I might already braced myself for what was about to occur. I might been in that constructing since I used to be 12 years outdated, so I do know precisely the way it works. So I knew that my time was up and I knew that Craig had backed himself right into a nook that was gonna be actually laborious to get out of.
“So I totally anticipated the chat to go that method. Within the dialog with Kate, there’d been about 20 minutes of Kate type of, speaking to me, however we hadn’t touched on when, or how, or who or what.
“So I type of stopped Kate and mentioned ‘Look, I’ve two questions: one is when, and two is do I get killed?’ And he or she type of stopped and stumbled a bit bit; and I mentioned ‘If it makes it simpler for you, the appropriate reply for me is Sure.’
“For me to go, I’d need to die, I’d need the door to be shut so then I can type of know in my head that Corrie has been this, Corrie has achieved that and it’s now achieved, and Craig’s journey is over.’
“So in a extremely bizarre method, it was the appropriate factor for me to be killed. I did not need that ‘We would have you ever again’, realizing that it will be most unlikely and realizing that it will really feel a bit like unfinished enterprise and an unfinished job.
“I believe Craig dying, and Craig dying within the line of obligation as a copper, that type of hero’s demise was by far essentially the most excellent story for the exit.”
Colson promised followers will not see Craig once more in spirit kind or in flashbacks.
He laughed: “I did say I will not be coming again as a ghost. I used to be like, ‘the day I go away, would be the day that I go away!’ “
Regardless of Craig’s tragic demise, Colson loved filming his final scenes.
He mentioned: “I totally loved it. I used to be very fortunate, as a result of clearly we work with totally different administrators on a regular basis at Corrie, and we labored with Duncan Foster on this block, who has achieved so many large blocks over 30 years.
“I believe he mentioned I used to be the fortieth person who he is killed! You type of really feel immediately in protected palms, and you’re feeling like, once you’re on set, that you simply’re doing one thing particular.”On the Thursday evening I got here again to work, it should have been about 8pm, and it was a very nice night. It was heat and safety knew that I used to be coming.
“I simply sat exterior the Rovers on the road, and I simply sat there for most likely about an hour; and simply sat, chilled, sat on the road, type of soaked all of it in and simply mentioned, my method of claiming goodbye and thanks to Corrie and every thing that it had achieved for me. After which I felt okay, I used to be like ‘achieved, I really feel able to go, convey on tomorrow.'”