Mick Michaelis, the evil character Joe Layton, is back to cause chaos in Weatherfield, but Joe Layton claims to have received a lot of online abuse from viewers.
Colson Smith pardoned Corrie cop killer Joe Layton for brutally attacking his beloved character PC Craig Tinker with a baseball bat. The same can’t be said for Weatherfield residents, whose lives will be in danger when Joe’s character Mick Michaelis explodes after a dramatic jailbreak.
As he tries to snatch his kids and flee abroad, Mick lands DC Kitt Green in hospital, needing lifesaving surgery. Joe, 33, who is leaving the soap, says of Colson: “He was such a positive energy and for the other cast and crew there’s obviously a massive Colson-sized hole everywhere at Coronation Street. “But we had a good chat when we first met and continued to chat.
“We were both Leeds United fans, so we bonded over that pretty quickly. And I was just struck by what a lovely warm-hearted person he is.“He never made me feel in any way shape or form: ‘I’m doing this bad thing to this popular character.’” Playing a Corrie baddie has prompted some unexpected encounters. Joe tells The Mirror: “I was in Scotland with my sister who lives up there. We were sitting outside a restaurant having a drink and a lady came out from the restaurant.
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She said, “Should you not be in prison? ” and then she looked at me and said, “Bye bye.”
She claimed that she and the five other women who were seated in front of the window, including the Scottish constabulary’s head, were all police officers. Since Monstrous Mick first touched the cobbles in February, Corrie fans have been on the edge of their seats.
Joe claims that his younger self would have rejected the role if he had been spotted by a US agent at age 22 and moved to the US, where he spent six years before being promised Hollywood stardom. Joe, who came back to the country five years ago, says, “I think I would have said “no” if you had asked me when I moved to America if I’d ever do a soap. ” I don’t mean to disrespect soaps, but I didn’t think I should watch them.
“I’m just so happy that I was offered the role in Coronation Street when I was. I’d grown up a bit and my attitude towards work had changed. “It’s a great lesson for me that you should try everything, because what I experienced in my six months at Coronation Street was incredible.” And he will be leaving the cobbles with a bang, as Mick causes mayhem after his jail break.
Joe warns, “No-one on the street is safe. He has already killed Craig and attacked Kit, something we have seen his capabilities. His strategy is to seek refuge in his children and flee. We see a different side to him and how important his children are to him.
“Serving a life sentence isn’t something he can deal with and he’ll do whatever it takes to get out of the country and take his kids with him.” Joe’s big break came 11 years ago when he landed the lead role in the BBC drama series Tatau.
He recalls, “I came out of drama school and hit the ground running.” Tatau gave me the opportunity to travel there and on top of that, I was picked up by a US manager and US agent.
They declared, “You’re going to come over and do whatever you want to do.” Why wouldn’t you believe that when you were in your early 20s?
However, he quickly realized renting a studio apartment in the heart of Los Angeles was terrible. “It was great, but it was like living next door to Harrods without any money,” he says. “I was walking past all these lovely restaurants and shops, but I was also cooking baked beans in my apartment.”
Still, he was delighted to land a role in the hit American TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “When I first drove into the Universal Studio parking lot, I remember sitting in my car calling my dad saying ‘you’ll never guess where I am,’” he smiles.
However, life in LA might be challenging despite this amazing role. He acknowledges that at times, “I also worked as a carpenter and as a food deliveryman.” In a very large pond, I was a very small fish. At times, it made me feel demoralized, but it also taught me how to walk on two feet.
And when he started being offered bigger jobs back in Blighty, he came home. Since then, he’s worked alongside Jodie Comer in Thirteen, he appeared in the Dawn French comedy The Trouble with Maggie Cole and in the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander, as well as being cast in the BBC series The Bombing of Pan Am 103.
Then came Mick, one of Corrie’s sexiest characters in recent memory and a wife-punch wrestler. I’ve received a lot of hate online through “Joe recalls” tweets, direct messages, and comments. Everyone seemed to think, “There’s no room for this guy on the street, we don’t like him, get rid, we wish you hadn’t existed as an actor or person!” There can sometimes be a fine line between reality and your character because Corrie is a staple in the lives of so many people and because it has been around for a long time.
“I was lucky that my previous job was The Bombing of Pan Am 103. That was airing at the same time on BBC. So, the night that Craig was killed I was on ITV at 8-9pm and then 9-10pm I was on BBC playing a really nice American character.”
London-born Joe, who grew up in Ilkley in the Yorkshire Dales, wrote a journal as Mick, to help understand his character. “I wrote it first person as Mick,” he explains. “It was just a stream of consciousness. “I was playing an abusive husband who kills a police officer. On paper that’s dreadful and horrible, but my job as an actor is to get to the why and the motivation. You don’t judge the character; you try to understand them and step into their shoes.
Mick has endured letdown and fall through the cracks numerous times in his life, making him a truly wounded, angry man. Sadly, there are many such men out there.
However, Joe won’t be watching his final scenes because he would be happy to go back to Corrie. He is filming a new Apple TV sci-fi series Star City in Lithuania, where he plays a Russian cosmonaut along with Rhys Ifans and Anna Maxwell Martin.
He claims that going right into that was really exciting. Joe is relieved that he won’t have to leave his soap business. He will also be making a UK tour of the play Lost Atoms in September. He claims that when my mother organized for a large gathering of friends and family members to watch my very first TV show, I felt more nervous than I had ever felt performing on stage. he claims. Although I was not particularly interested in it, I still felt self-conscious.
I watched it on ITV at 7 a.m. the morning after Craig’s death, getting ready to watch it with my girlfriend and our friends in the evening!
Source: Mirror
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