Blake’s Brother
Soap Opera Digest: I love it that Sebastian calls Blake “Chrissy”.
Elizabeth Keifer: I do, too! It’s one of the first things that gets Blake. Blake is the first person to believe that Sebastian is her brother. She knows it. She knows it in his eyes. They have part of the same soul. It’s that same button that Roger could push in Chrissy — that willingness to do bad things for that person. It’s interesting. Blake and Sebastian are both going after this unattainable father who really wasn’t present for them. He wasn’t present for Sebastian growing up and he wasn’t present in the way that Blake wanted him to be, and both of them have the same buttons that get pushed. It doesn’t help that now Ross has Dinah in the picture, which makes a division between those two. It [forces] Blake to gravitate toward Sebastian faster than she would have because she is feeling so put out by fighting with Ross over Dinah, of Ross being protective of Dinah and not taking care of Blake. It’s a natural gravitation. It’s sort of like what happened with Roger before — that love/hate. “Okay, now I am going to be with you.” “Now I’ll work against you.” Sebastian’s wonderful. He’s just wonderful. It’s like family for her; he accepts the bad parts of her just like Roger did…. He’s out to re-create all those things that happened with Roger. You are going to get Roger all over again living through him and it’s really an amazing story.
Digest: How does Sebastian’s return affect Holly and Blake’s relationship?
Keifer: It’s funny. It’s like how they [were]. There they go again where Holly is really cynical about it, doesn’t want to trust, and Blake is totally open. She has a brother who she’s just going to love because there is no more competition for Daddy because Daddy isn’t alive anymore. I think if Daddy were alive it might be a little bit different. Now the fact that Sebastian is her brother is the only thing she can hold onto and she wants to hold onto it.
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