Coronation Street's Ryan Prescott reveals cut moment from acid attack scene

Horrible stalker Justin (Andrew Still) had been aiming at Daisy (Charlotte Jordan), who was preparing to marry the love of her life, but as the acid was thrown, kind-hearted Ryan got in the way and took the full force.

The scene that followed was highly disturbing as Ryan writhed around on the floor in sheer agony over what the acid was doing to his skin.

But according to actor Prescott, the ITV soap filmed other options including one which would have seen Ryan not quite sure what had hit him.

Speaking to press including RadioTimes.com, Prescott was asked whether in that moment, Ryan fully understands what has happened to him.

"After watching the final edit, there is a few seconds where you wouldn't know what it was, and it takes a couple of seconds for sulphuric acid (which it is in this case), to actually set into the facial tissue and start eroding," Prescott explained.

"There was a moment that we shot where Ryan gathers that this isn't what he would have assumed, although it went straight into the action pretty much on the final edit, so we did miss a little bit of that edge of reality that people probably don't need to see. There's always a time restriction on these things, and the edit was fantastic, they did everything they could."

The actor continued: "To be honest, I think he would have probably thought it was like vodka or something in the moment, mainly because it's very difficult to anticipate this level of hate and violence.

"We don't really like to look at these things, like the fact one person could do this to another person in society - we can tend to turn away from it and we don't like to look at them head on. It's scary.

"Through the research, one of the facts I found was that there was 300 acid attacks in Manchester in 2022 alone. It just shows that it's way more prevalent than you expect."

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