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James Patrick Stuart (Valentin, GH) sounds very much like a proud pop when talking about his on-screen daughter, Scarlett Fernandez (Charlotte). “She is a remarkable little kid,” he declares. “The camera loves her! I have kids of my own, so I have no problem with kids, I love kids, but I could see when she first began that she was very intimidated by me. I don’t blame her; here’s this dark dude in a dark suit making fierce faces. I worked like crazy to get that genie out of the bottle. I have boys, I don’t have girls, but I would talk to my friends who have girls and I’d say, ‘What do I do [to win her over]?’ They’d say, ‘Ask her what she likes to do, man! Buy her toys! Get her something!’ I was like, ‘Okay, what can I get?’ She likes coloring of any kind, watercolors, colored pencils, and in my neighborhood there’s a great toy store, so I went and I picked up a Frozen coloring book with all these pencils and brought it to the set and she warmed up immediately. And now,” he teases, “I can’t put that genie back in the bottle! She is super-comfortable with me, climbing all over me. I love it! She’s a doll.”
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Although entertainment host Julie Chen (THE TALK, BIG BROTHER) has played characters on TV, she finds that doing cameos as herself, such as she did on Y&R, are a little more difficult to execute. “I still felt like a phony playing me but I had a great time,” Chen smiles. “The little acting I’ve done, such as when I played an ambassador on NCIS: L.A., I don’t think I played anyone far from who I am in real life, but it’s still a character,” she explains. “On THE TALK, we’ll sometimes do little comedy bits or I’ll do an imitation, and I find those easier because you’re not showing the world who you are. So, it’s a little daunting to play myself.” Having scripted dialogue ups the ante somewhat, she adds. “Learning lines sounds like it would be easy but it’s not. Lucky for me, Mishael Morgan [Hilary] was very accommodating. The easiest part was when they said, ‘You can ad-lib when Hilary is officially interviewing you about your start in the business.’ I’m like, ‘Great, just tell me how long you need because I can keep it going!’ ”
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Bill Hayes (Doug, DAYS) says he learned a very important lesson after he was let go from the show in 1984. “We were the hottest of the hot, all through the ’70s with Doug’s Place and the Time magazine cover,” he recalls. But in 1982, the show wanted to skew younger, which changed the landscape of the show. “Doug and Julie were suddenly the negative characters,” Hayes explains. “You’ve got to give Hope problems, and suddenly we were her problems. Doug was always such a freethinker through all those years, and suddenly he was saying, ‘Now, look here, that boy has long hair and it’s not right to go out with a boy who has long hair!’ and, ‘When I was your age, this is how we did it!’ I found it very strange. Suddenly, we were old, conservative and uninteresting people. Negative people. I complained. I said, ‘You’re throwing away 13 years of a wonderful character here. Give us good story, we’d love to play it.’ Susan [Seaforth Hayes, Julie] added some complaints. And they booted us out. So, don’t complain! That’s the lesson that you learn [laughs]. Don’t complain.”
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B&B’s Reign Edwards (Nicole) immediately formed a strong bond with twins Gianna and Isabella Garcia, who play Nic’s biological daughter, Lizzy, on the soap. “They are so beyond cute,” Edwards beams. “Cute doesn’t even begin to describe those girls. I always make sure to do my best to go in and see them and spend time with them before our scenes together so that they are all warmed up to me when we’re on the set together. They are freaking adorable, both together and apart. It’s funny because they have such different attitudes and personalities of their own. Watching them grow and develop right before my eyes has been such an amazing experience. For Nicole, Lizzy is such an important factor in her life because she is the first experience Nicole has ever had with the realm of motherhood, and that goes for me, too. I’m so glad I’m going to be working with them more.”
James Patrick Stuart (Valentin, GH) sounds very much like a proud pop when talking about his on-screen daughter, Scarlett Fernandez (Charlotte). “She is a remarkable little kid,” he declares. “The camera loves her! I have kids of my own, so I have no problem with kids, I love kids, but I could see when she first began that she was very intimidated by me. I don’t blame her; here’s this dark dude in a dark suit making fierce faces. I worked like crazy to get that genie out of the bottle. I have boys, I don’t have girls, but I would talk to my friends who have girls and I’d say, ‘What do I do [to win her over]?’ They’d say, ‘Ask her what she likes to do, man! Buy her toys! Get her something!’ I was like, ‘Okay, what can I get?’ She likes coloring of any kind, watercolors, colored pencils, and in my neighborhood there’s a great toy store, so I went and I picked up a Frozen coloring book with all these pencils and brought it to the set and she warmed up immediately. And now,” he teases, “I can’t put that genie back in the bottle! She is super-comfortable with me, climbing all over me. I love it! She’s a doll.”
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Although entertainment host Julie Chen (THE TALK, BIG BROTHER) has played characters on TV, she finds that doing cameos as herself, such as she did on Y&R, are a little more difficult to execute. “I still felt like a phony playing me but I had a great time,” Chen smiles. “The little acting I’ve done, such as when I played an ambassador on NCIS: L.A., I don’t think I played anyone far from who I am in real life, but it’s still a character,” she explains. “On THE TALK, we’ll sometimes do little comedy bits or I’ll do an imitation, and I find those easier because you’re not showing the world who you are. So, it’s a little daunting to play myself.” Having scripted dialogue ups the ante somewhat, she adds. “Learning lines sounds like it would be easy but it’s not. Lucky for me, Mishael Morgan [Hilary] was very accommodating. The easiest part was when they said, ‘You can ad-lib when Hilary is officially interviewing you about your start in the business.’ I’m like, ‘Great, just tell me how long you need because I can keep it going!’ ”
Photo credit: JPI
Bill Hayes (Doug, DAYS) says he learned a very important lesson after he was let go from the show in 1984. “We were the hottest of the hot, all through the ’70s with Doug’s Place and the Time magazine cover,” he recalls. But in 1982, the show wanted to skew younger, which changed the landscape of the show. “Doug and Julie were suddenly the negative characters,” Hayes explains. “You’ve got to give Hope problems, and suddenly we were her problems. Doug was always such a freethinker through all those years, and suddenly he was saying, ‘Now, look here, that boy has long hair and it’s not right to go out with a boy who has long hair!’ and, ‘When I was your age, this is how we did it!’ I found it very strange. Suddenly, we were old, conservative and uninteresting people. Negative people. I complained. I said, ‘You’re throwing away 13 years of a wonderful character here. Give us good story, we’d love to play it.’ Susan [Seaforth Hayes, Julie] added some complaints. And they booted us out. So, don’t complain! That’s the lesson that you learn [laughs]. Don’t complain.”
Photo credit: JPI
B&B’s Reign Edwards (Nicole) immediately formed a strong bond with twins Gianna and Isabella Garcia, who play Nic’s biological daughter, Lizzy, on the soap. “They are so beyond cute,” Edwards beams. “Cute doesn’t even begin to describe those girls. I always make sure to do my best to go in and see them and spend time with them before our scenes together so that they are all warmed up to me when we’re on the set together. They are freaking adorable, both together and apart. It’s funny because they have such different attitudes and personalities of their own. Watching them grow and develop right before my eyes has been such an amazing experience. For Nicole, Lizzy is such an important factor in her life because she is the first experience Nicole has ever had with the realm of motherhood, and that goes for me, too. I’m so glad I’m going to be working with them more.”
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