Coleby: 'Being blind is terrifying'

Home and Away star Conrad Coley had admitted that he finds it difficult playing a blind character.

The actor, who is due to leave the Australian soap later this year, said that a lot of practice went into his role as the newly blind Roman.

"It's quite difficult because you've got to play it to a camera, so you can't play it as you would in real life, because it doesn't read on the camera - although I did practise being blind," Conrad told the Home and Away website.

"To actually be blind would be horrible. I can't imagine a more terrifying disability. I mean you can't tell the time, you can't read people's faces or expressions, you don't know what sort of day it is," he said. "I really wanted to portray the anxiety that is associated with that."