“Repressions is actually based on a true story,” says THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS’ Sharon Case (Sharon) of the indie film she just completed. “It’s about traumatic events that you’ve repressed and forgotten about. A lot of psychologists will suggest things to their patients, and the film looks at how those suggestions end up affecting people’s lives.”
Case plays Janie, one such victim of suggestion. “Her psychologist suggests that she was abused, but she wasn’t,” Case previews. “Crazy drama!”
It may be crazy, but some argue it’s not far from the truth. “This was a very hot topic in recent years,” Case notes. “The [story’s] writer was a lawyer and tried some cases regarding this sort of thing. It had such a horrible effect on some people’s lives that he wrote this story.”
Needless to say, playing out Janie’s progression was challenging for Case, especially considering she was also dealing with her alter ego’s banner year at Y&R. While Janie fought her own battles, Sharon survived the death of her daughter and became a career woman, only to find out about her husband’s affair and delve into her own dalliance with Brad.
But Case lived through it all. “Of all the years to do the movie!” she says with a laugh. “I shot Repressions around Y&R, where I was working almost every single day this year. Then I put in 15 hours a day on the weekends. Honestly, this movie has been hard. It’s very dramatic, so it was a lot of work and effort.”
After years on Y&R, Case is used to high drama, but the pace of filming a movie definitely threw her. “It’s much harder to shoot movies than soap operas,” she maintains. “I know people come here to the soap and they get frazzled with the pace that we’re doing, but our dialogue ain’t nothin’ compared to the kind of focus, concentration and ability you have to have on a movie set.
“In movies, you’re usually outside, in pretty rough circumstances, often at odd hours of the night, but you’re still plotting these emotional scenes. Also, I’m so used to shooting a scene once or twice and being done with it. I had to get used to shooting it a million times back to back to back to back for hours.”
Now that she’s wrapped filming, Case looks forward to seeing the finished product. As for those tough days she survived…maybe she can repress the memories!
