GOOD TO BE BAD Now that B&B fans know it was Quinn who orchestrated Ridge and Shauna’s quickie Las Vegas wedding, her portrayer, Rena Sofer, is thrilled to be playing her character’s manipulative side once again. “It has been a long time since I’ve been able to play ‘scheming Quinn’ and I’m really happy that I’m able to do that again,” enthuses the actress. “But you know, the biggest fear about playing ‘scheming Quinn’ again is that if Eric finds out, he’s going to be very angry and possibly kick her out of his home and out of his life. Now, even though that would be a great emotional story to play, I can’t imagine the thought of not working with John McCook [Eric]. He is my spirit animal. He is my safe place. He is my emotional support animal [laughs], and I don’t want to lose that. So, that’s always in the back of my mind. However, right now, it’s just fun. Quinn definitely thinks she did something good. I think she’s very proud of what she has orchestrated in the name of true love for her best friend — and for Ridge, as well.”
HOPE FOR THE PAST Y&R’s Donny Boaz (Chance) has a surprising tie to a former B&B cast member. “In 2006, I worked with Kim Matula [ex-Hope], who is also from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex like me,” he explains. “We were both actors in Texas trying to make the big jump to Los Angeles. We then moved to L.A. together in 2009 and we were roommates. We actually moved to South Pasadena together and even had the same agent and the same manager at the same time. But half the year I was still going back and forth between Texas and Louisiana for filming.” It was because of their living arrangements that Boaz was able to be a part of a momentous moment for his roomie. “I was standing right next to Kim when she got the phone call for B&B,” he smiles. ”It was just the two of us in our living room when she booked that job and I gave her a huge hug. It was such an exciting time for her. Now that I’m working across the hallway from where she worked for all of those years, it feels like a full-circle thing. It’s been years since we’ve seen each other so I need to give her a call.”
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LET’S GET PHYSICAL DAYS’s Robert Scott Wilson (Ben) admits that Ben’s recent brainwashing and torture at the hands of Kassie DePaiva’s Eve, “is probably some of the wildest s**t I’ve ever done. Our show’s been doing some things that are crazy, but this is Stanley Kubrick-type stuff.” The twisted revenge plot has evoked some firsts for Wilson. “I’ve had some pretty wild outbursts on DAYS and in my career,” he notes. “But in any project I’ve ever worked on, I’ve never screamed louder or left more of my soul in a scene than I did in these brainwashing scenes. They probably heard me at Warner Brothers [the lot next door].” DePaiva had to get physical with Wilson a few times during Ben’s captivity and enjoyed every minute it. “Robert Scott Wilson is such a joy to work with,” she says. “He goes there, and we had a lot of fun. A couple of times, I said, ‘Now this might hurt you a little bit.’ And he’d be like, ‘Hit me. Hit me.’ ” Wilson also got a kick out of collaborating with DePaiva. “I’ll work with Kassie eight out of seven days a week, because she’s that great,” he praises. “She can do whatever the hell she wants to me. I’m fine with it. I’m like, ‘Don’t hold back. You’ll be doing everybody an injustice if you hold back. I’m not that guy.’ ”
DISORDER IN THE COURT Kin Shriner (Scott, GH) says that one of the things he loves most about playing courtroom scenes is getting the chance to grill his castmates on the witness stand. “If I have to go after Steve Burton [Jason], it’s hard for him to keep a straight face because he knows that I’m enjoying it too much,” he reports. “Steve said that he had to pinch and hold his legs so that he won’t laugh! A lot of the others, it’s hard for them not to laugh, too, but they don’t because that would blow the take.” At his character’s last big trial, though, there was little giggling when Scotty took a take-no-prisoners approach to interrogating Kim, played by Tamara Braun. “I remember the day we were doing that stuff, I said, ‘Listen, I’ve got a lot today so I’ll try to give you the right cues.’ And she said, ‘It’s okay, Kin, just come at me!’ I really had to attack her, but she was great about it. The actors, they know what is going to go on. They know that I’m coming at them with a vengeance!”