Sally Carman hopes her style is "much better" than her ‘Coronation Street’ alter ego, Abi Franklin.
The 38-year-old actress thinks it’s "brilliant" that her character is such a "scruff" because it stops her from being vain about her appearance.
She said: "Abi has no style at all! It’s as though she gets dressed in the dark – she needs to seriously replace that lightbulb in her bedroom.
"I’d like to think my style is much better, just because at lest I attempt to have a go at it.
"My favourite costume of all time is Abi’s overalls. I like that she’s a scruff and she never brushes her hair, she wears too much black eyeliner – it’s brilliant. It helps keep your ego out of it."
Sally is also grateful Abi has fairly straightforward dialogue and she has a lot of respect for Patti Clare, who plays Mary Taylor on the soap, because her lines are often complicated.
Asked who she’d like to play if she could be another character from the cobbles, she told Inside Soap magazine: "It’d be Norris! I’d have a go at that because he’s so different from Abi.
"Or Mary. Do you know what though, I take that back, I couldn’t do Mary – the lines she has to learn are absolute tongue twisters.
"Patti Clare, who plays her, is a phenomenon – she takes my breath away."
The former ‘Shameless’ star doesn’t think she has a lot in common with Abi, though they are both outspoken.
She said: "She’s a bit out there. She’s true to herself and I guess I am – I can be quite outspoken.
"Her heart is in the right place and I know that mine is too.
"However, as for the rest of it, I don’t think we have anything else in common, to be honest."
Sally Carman has better style than Corrie character
