Coronation Street star Todd Boyce teases danger for Carla in Stephen story

Coronation Street spoilers follow.

Coronation Street star Todd Boyce, who plays villain Stephen Reid on the ITV soap, has teased some danger ahead for Carla Connor.

In an upcoming storyline, Stephen and Underworld owner Carla are set to square off as Stephen attempts to return to the textiles industry and a determined Carla lets him know who's boss.

Next week's episodes will see Stephen claim another victim and kill Teddy after he accuses the killer of having something to do with the disappearance of his son Leo Thompkins, and considering Stephen is prepared to get rid of anyone who stands in his way, it looks like Carla is now enemy number one.

"Carla’s getting on his wick," Boyce told Digital Spy and other media. "She humiliates him on two occasions in front of his former colleagues, from when he was a bigwig in Milan.

"They wander into Underworld and Stephen keeps pretending he's just doing some consultancy work but she's got him out the back in packing. Carla just spoils his cover and is saying 'Go on, get back to packing' so she crushes him in front of them.

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"Carla has also got a business that Stephen wouldn’t mind getting his hands on and she’s annoying him. She's the queen of Underworld and he'd like to be the king. She’s skating on thin ice."

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The actor went on to discuss how "amazing" it is to join Corrie's infamous list of serial killers, including Conor McIntyre's Pat Phelan and Brian Capron's Richard Hillman.

He continued: "I know the show, and you hope to play Hamlet in your twenties and thirties, you hope to play Macbeth in your fifties, you hope to play Lear in your seventies. You hope to play…this. And it’s even rarer than that.

"It’s such an honour, I get emotional about it, I’m so grateful to [producer] Iain MacLeod, I get emotional about it. It’s heaven! And by a certain age, acting’s no longer the problem, you can either act or you can’t act, you’re not worried about the acting, you just want to get on and do it."

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Opening up about the excitement of playing a character he knows so well but in a completely different way, he added: "I feel like a kid that’s climbed into his television set and inhabited the street. It’s just wonderful not to have to establish him.

"To 26 years ago spend a year on the street, to know it, and then to come back 15 years ago just to drop that in and just to have a history on the street is just heaven, and then to come back again to do this is perfect."

Coronation Street airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.