ITV Emmerdale's Marlon Dingle star 'can't watch' upsetting April scenes
On Tuesday's instalment of This Morning, hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley spoke to Mark Charnock regarding the current storyline of missing teen April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan).
Emmerdale fans are aware that the 15-year-old has been missing since Christmas Day after she left the home following a row with Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) and the rest of her family.
Since then, everyone has been doing their best to try and find April. Things almost took a turn for the worse when a teenager, who had April's bank card, was rushed to hospital after being stabbed.
Sadly, the teen died, and Marlon and Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) were called in to identify the body. However, they were flooded with relief after learning it wasn't April who had been killed.
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In a recent episode, Marlon was given a huge update in his daughter's whereabouts after April was seen on CCTV in central Leeds.
Although it confirmed she was still alive, as the footage had been captured that day, April was seen running in the video. This begged the harrowing question on whether or not she was running from someone.
As actor Mark Charnock was shown a montage of the storyline so far on This Morning, it was clear the actor found it a struggle. Cat commented: "You can't really watch that, can you? You find that quite difficult."
Agreeing, he replied: "I found the whole story quite - it's upsetting. It's so real; they've written it brilliantly and structured it really well. Then you look into the numbers and talking to charities, people go through this and it's unimaginable."
While Cat highlighted his character has gone through a lot, the ITV star agreed, although shared this currently storyline is the worst thing Marlon has gone through.
Mark added: "He's defined by his kids, like most people are obviously. It's like the inside of him has completely fallen to pieces. Every day he tries to gather up those pieces by just looking for her."
Speaking about the scenes where Marlon and Rhona had to identify the teen's body, Mark touched on the impact that had. He added: "Just walking into that set, with a body under the sheet was just, seeing it back then, it was just horrible, you know. Everything you do in the story reminds you of what people are going through in real life."
Emmerdale airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX at 7:30 PM. There's also an hour-long episode on Thursdays