Corrie's Gemma Winter actress unveils 'mind-blowing' orange wedding dress
Coronation Street star Dolly-Rose Campbell has revealed all on her character Gemma Winter's jaw-dropping wedding dress, ahead of her big day to Chesney Brown.
The character goes for a drastically different frock to the usual soap wedding gowns, opting for an orange coloured dress instead of white.
Gemma brings her own style to her frock in a huge number, complete with all kinds of adaptations such as fairy lights and giant swirls.
The massive frock features a two-metre wide netted floor-length skirt with an orange strapped top, while Gemma's matching orange veil and dress train is seven metres long.
But the odd choice of colour carries a special meaning, and actress Dolly had a lot of input into her frock - with the help of Manchester Drag Queen Liquorice Black.
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Coronation Street star Dolly-Rose Campbell has revealed all on her character Gemma Winter's jaw-dropping wedding dress (ITV)Speaking about the frock to The Mirror and other press, Dolly-Rose revealed: "I was just blown away by the dress. It's an absolute work of art.
"It's the detail that's gone into it. It's just beyond anything I ever imagined. And it was quite comfortable. It actually was, compared to a lot of Gemma's other costumes because it was made to fit from scratch. I really enjoyed wearing it."
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On the design, she said: "I had big, big ideas for what I wanted for Gemma's dress and I was discussing it with the costume department. The thing that kept coming up was where are we going to get something like that from? And I knew of this designer Liquorice Black from going to their studio a few years ago, and seeing all the costumes they were making.
"So I said I do know of someone who can make this but I don't think they will do it because they're really busy. I met with him and he agreed as his grandmother was a fan of the show! I was overjoyed."
The massive frock features a two-metre wide netted floor-length skirt with an orange strapped top (ITV)Dolly-Rose also explained why they went for an orange theme, and explained: "It was the idea of our costume designer Alex at work. She really wanted it to be orange because it was the most Chesney colour."
The huge dress did cause some issues during filming though, with the actress explaining: "The dress was two metres and the veil was seven metres, so the veil was actually attached to the back of the dress, and there was a veil that came from the hair.
"But then there was another one that was attached to the dress so that that could come off. I wasn't wearing that all the time. What we found was that when the director wanted to do a two-shot with two actors in shot, he couldn't do it because there wasn't enough room for two people within the frame of the camera.
The character goes for a drastically different frock to the usual soap wedding gown (ITV)"So Liquorice made us a smaller dress as well. So this was like a mini skirt that we could use for close-ups."
Dolly-Rose also confessed the wedding filming was the first time most of the cast had seen the incredible outfit.
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She explained: "A few of the crew had seen it but none of the cast had seen it. So it was nice. And then I didn't wear it until we were actually inside the church either so nobody, nobody had seen it.
"Barbara [Knox] was really surprised. I thought she might think it was a bit silly, but she she thought it was perfect for Gemma. She thought it was really glamorous and perfect."
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