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AS THE WORLD TURNS Interviews

Winning Tips

— By Jennifer Lenhart

Ryan Serhant (Evan, ATWT)
— JOHN PASCHAL/JPI

INTURN, the reality show in which actors compete for a 13-week gig on AS THE WORLD TURNS, is coming back for a third season. In-person casting calls will be held in Orlando, FL, on January 19 and Richmond, VA, on January 26. Contestants aged 18-36 can also submit a tape for consideration. Before you go to cbs.com for more information, check out the advice that INTURN 2 winner Ryan Serhant, currently appearing as Evan Walsh IV, has for the next nine.

Soap Opera Digest: What do you think should happen in INTURN 3?
Ryan Serhant: Personally, I think INTURN kind of does it the wrong way. I'd like to see it be a contest for a specific character. I think it would be a lot more interesting for viewers, since they're always bringing on new characters, like Sofie, Cole, Chris, Casey ... I'm not singling anyone else, I'm just saying that if within the next year they knew they were bringing on a new character or some sort of recast, that INTURN could be a competition for that. INTURN has nine completely different actors. To single anyone else is pretty biased. It makes me kind of uncomfortable. To say that I was the best is complete bull.

Digest: It's like an "apples and oranges" thing.
Serhant: Exactly. You look at the people who are voting and you get a huge female demographic. So who are they going to pick when it comes down to it? So to do it all over again, I don't completely support it. To anyone who wants to do it, I say, 'Go all out. Don't hold anything back,' because it's also a reality show.

Lab Geeks: Evan's only friend in town has been Chris (Dylan Bruce, r.).
— GEORGE DE SOTA/JPI

Digest: Do you keep in touch with anyone?
Serhant: Lauretta [Vaughn, Kit], definitely, because she's there all the time. The others, not so much, because no one else lives in the city.

Digest: Do you see [Executive Producer] Chris Goutman around?
Serhant: I've gone to talk to him a couple of times, but he hasn't been there. I see him in the halls, but we never really talk.

Digest: You probably had more interaction with him on INTURN than on WORLD TURNS.
Serhant: Yeah, it's very weird. On INTURN, there's a lot of communication between everybody, between Goutman's feedback and Richard's [Mensing, VP, CBS Daytime East Coast] feedback. Everyone's sort of talking to you and guiding you through the process for the most part. As soon as I won and got on the show, all of a sudden no one talks to you anymore. It's weird, in that respect. Once you get there, you're sort of on your own [laughs]!

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