It’s hard to believe that Sue Johnston is 80. The star of Brookside, The Royle Family and Waking the Dead seems decades younger when we meet to chat about her life and career – she’s vibrant, funny and switched on.
Sue can hardly believe it herself. ‘It feels slightly unreal because I remember my mum and my aunties at 80, and they were old ladies,’ says Sue, who celebrated her birthday in December. ‘I don’t feel like an old lady, although I do when someone says, “Can I carry that for you?”
