The Brown-low
Soap Opera Weekly: Did ATWT tell you about Jack’s past with the other Julia (played by Annie Parisse)?
Sarah Brown: They did. I also asked them to send me some tapes of the stuff so in the event that I would have to portray the same character that I would sort of know what track I was on and to moreover get a sense of Michael Park and Maura West (Jack and Carly) and this other character.
Weekly: Do you keep in touch with any of your former GH co-stars?
Brown: Just
Maurice (
Benard, Sonny). I talk to (writer) Elizabeth Korte sometimes. And also Wendy Riche, the former executive producer; Julie Carruthers, who was one of our producers (and is now ALL MY CHILDREN’s executive producer); Barbara Bloom, who is the president now of CBS daytime, was one of our producers over there. I’ve had contact with Vanessa (Marcil, ex-Brenda) and Real (Andrews; ex-Taggert, GH; ex-Walker, ATWT), who is on my show. But I haven’t run into him yet.
Weekly: Are you dating anybody special?
Brown: Josh Groban, am I in love or what? If he’s single, let’s put it out there. I just got his CD. I’m in the dark ages, I guess. He’s an amazing singer. I randomly grabbed his CD (at the store) and threw it in (the listening station). I was like, “Oh, this is amazing.” I bought it and I took it home and I listened to it three times that night.
Weekly: Your daughter Jordan is 6. Do you hope to have more kids someday?
Brown: With Josh Groban, I definitely do (laughs).
Weekly: How does Jordan feel about her mom dating?
Brown: Mom doesn’t date. I don’t bring my daughter into my personal life at all. It’s not healthy. Until I find the person in my life that I want to settle down with and make a commitment to, I don’t want my daughter to have any kind of attachments to them. I don’t think that it’s good for her. It’s incredibly difficult to balance your career and being a single mom and dating and trying to find the love of your life at the same time that you don’t want to damage your child. I have friends that have kids that have too many times brought people into their lives and it didn’t end up working out and it leaves a scar on the child. I’m trying to do the best I can by her. That is more important than anything.
Weekly: How do you like being a mom?
Brown: I love being a mom! Snowboarding, acting and being a mom are my three favorite things in life.
Weekly: Snowboarding?
Brown: Snowboarding is my new favorite thing in the world. I’m crazy about it. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had standing up. When I find a man who can do for me what snowboarding does for me I’m going to marry him.
I cracked my tailbone about three years ago and I was disappointed because I had to stop for the season. I was really hurt. I couldn’t walk for a month.
Weekly: You played Kate in PERFECT HUSBAND: THE LACI PETERSON STORY. Why did you do that film and have you been following Scott Peterson’s trial?
Brown: At the time it was surreal. I was coming off the set and going home and watching Greta Van Sustren on [TV] literally talk play by play of what had happened at the preliminary hearing that day. Everybody in my life said, “Keep a journal because this will probably never happen again in your career.”
When I signed on to do the film there was one script that I read that had my mom and I bawling our eyes out and we were like, “I have to do this movie.” Unfortunately, once I had already signed on, the film was changed to reflect the truth. So a lot of the scenes that I read didn’t actually happen. They wrote them in there and they would have made any person or actor with any integrity stand up and say, “Yeah, I’m going to do this movie and I’m going to do a great job because this family and this woman and these people deserve that.” When I finally got the script and all that stuff had been cut and I realized it never happened, I was a little shocked. I had some trepidation about picking a story that’s in the news but the man has not been convicted. I had some very conflicting feelings, but at the same time I felt in my heart like what I was doing was just trying to tell the story that we were telling and tell it the most truthfully that I could. That was my job. It’s unfortunate that the family didn’t support the movie because I would never want to inflict any kind of pain or sorrow or hurt onto a family that has already had more than their share for a lifetime.
Weekly: Was it hard because you weren’t playing an actual person, but a composite character?
Brown: No. We had the liberty to say and do and feel what we wanted. Everyone was devastated about what happened to this woman, so I didn’t have to pull very hard. It was right there for me. It was devastating to go through it.
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