Hollyoaks' Jennifer Metcalfe thought Mercedes's 2 baby dads storyline was "fantasy"
"If it's going to happen to anyone, it's going to happen to Mercedes!"
When Hollyoaks bosses first approached Jennifer Metcalfe about a storyline in which Mercedes twins would have two different fathers, she laughed and didn't think it was possible, but she was soon taken aback by the reality.
In recent months, Metcalfe has been working closely with Jamie Lomas (Warren Fox) and Richard Blackwood (Felix Westwood) in their heteropaternal superfecundation storyline, in which Warren and Felix are both the fathers to Mercedes' twins.
Superfecundation is the fertilisation of two or more egg cells from the same cycle and, while it is incredibly rare, it's a storyline Hollyoaks have been pursuing.
For this storyline, Hollyoaks took home the Best Twist award at the RadioTimes.com Soap Awards 2024, sponsored by Inspired Villages.
Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com, Metcalfe said: "It's not just down to me, it's down to the storyline. When Hannah [Cheers] told me that Mercedes would be having twins to two different men I was like: 'This cannot happen.' She was like: 'No it can.'
"I thought it was a bit of a fantasy storyline. When I googled it, it can happen in more than two ways, I think it's four ways it can happen. So, just be careful!"
Prior to her win, Metcalfe joked: "If it's going to happen to anyone, it's going to happen to Mercedes!"
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As for what's in store for her character in the upcoming time-jump, Metcalfe teased a "totally different" Mercedes to come.
"We're going to see Mercedes totally different to... [how] we've ever, ever seen her before," she said. "Over the, like, last 20 years when producers have given the storylines, I've been like: 'Oh yeah. that's a little bit different.'
"[But] how we're going to see her in the jump forward, the year jump forward is, like, unbelievable and mind-blowing and I can't wait to play it as an actor."
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