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Emmerdale star Beth Cordingly has reacted to comparisons between her character Ruby Fox-Miligan and Kim Tate.
Ruby arrived in the village earlier this year and is feeling uneasy about her complicated relationship with her husband Caleb – who has an affair with Tracy Robinson – and his attempts to connect with the Dingles family.
As a result, she has made enemies in Caleb's family, with some even suggesting that he compares her to the villainous Kim Tate.
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Beth admitted that when talking about her relationship with the Dingles Digital spy and other media that “it's definitely not about making friends and influencing people.”
“This is not a life skill she learned! When you get scripts, it's quite frustrating because you just think, 'Oh my God, she's just rude to everyone,'” she said, explaining that as an actor, “you have to find your own logic through it.”
“The only way I see it is that her best form of defense seems to be offense. “She is very impulsive and spontaneous and seems to speak and act without thinking.”
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Regarding the comparisons to Kim, Beth added: “I don't think she's like Kim Tate because Kim is very cool and calculating, and Ruby just reacts very violently to things and then quite often becomes full of regret afterwards.
“So the only way I can justify her behavior is that she's afraid of losing him, so she sees his family as a threat,” she continued.
“But instead of being smart and befriending them, she keeps insulting and kicking them, which obviously doesn't help. Certainly not with the Dingles, and certainly not with Caleb, because he can't understand why she does this.” do not come on board.
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“It's a very childish approach to things, but the only reason I can justify it is that she hasn't learned this sophistication. She's kind of stuck in this teenage mindset of her family turning their back on her, and she's kind of stuck. I never learned the art of diplomacy.”
Speaking further about Caleb's romance with Tracy, Beth noted that “when they're not together, he goes out and has affairs quite a lot,” although Ruby is “very concerned about the fact that she sensed that he was potentially falling in love with Tracy.” .
“I don't think it really bothered her before,” she said. “They don't have an open relationship. I think it was always like that when they were apart. He had a line in the past where he said, 'You've done a lot of things, I've done some things too,' so they've both gone astray, but she absolutely adores him.
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“Kim Tate tells her, 'You don't just love Caleb, you're obsessed with him.' It's not an obsession type Fatal attraction type, I don't think so. In her eyes, she gave everything for him.”
She added: “They are everything and it's also kind of based on fear because if he loses them, he loses everything. It's also this need. It's family, they are everything to each other – they are mother, father, sister, brother, lover, the whole thing. She's definitely still in love with him, even after everything with Tracy. Deep, deep. She can't let him go.
As to whether Ruby and Caleb will be together forever, the star replied: “I don't know – it's up to the writers. But I don't think she can see a world without him. They are everything.”
Emmerdale is shown weekdays at 7.30pm on ITV1 and broadcast on ITVX.
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