Five Minutes With Ingo
Soap Opera Digest: You seem to be having a ball exploring the darker side of your white-knight persona.
Ingo Rademacher: This is probably one of the best stories that I’ve had in the nine years, almost 10 that I’ve been here. It’s really been exciting.Digest: What has the fan response been like?
Rademacher: Most of the responses that I’m getting are, “Don’t break up Liz and Lucky [laughs],” which is good because it’s creating a lot of tension. They have said, “Oh, you’re so mean to [Courtney],” and it’s like, “Well, he does have a reason to be,” so I try to play the truth in the situation there.
Digest: But he has said some nasty things, like when Jax caught Courtney coming home after spending the night with Nikolas.
Rademacher: [laughs]: All that stuff was good: “I wasn’t asking if it was good sex, sweetie. I was wondering if you cared about all the people that you walked over.” I wrote that! It’s been really good working with Becky [Herbst, Elizabeth] in that storyline, too.
Digest: We’ve heard interest from some fans about a Jax and Alexis re-pairing.
Rademacher: There was never a pairing there, just a marriage [laughs]. But they were never like a couple. Although working with Nancy [Lee Grahn] is always fun.Digest: You surprised a lot of people with your great singing voice on SOAP TALK. Did you ever want to pursue music as a career?
Rademacher: It’s one of those things that if you really wanted to get into it, it’s a lot of work. I don’t want to go touring around. I really have no interest in doing that. I like writing songs. My music partner, Gunner, and I will probably record some stuff or maybe even do an album, a self-published album, and maybe put something on the Web site. The two songs I performed I just wrote literally two weeks before. We came up with “Imagination Wanders” and “Come to Paradise,” which I thought was appropriate for Hawaii. That’s based on me wanting to spend more time [in the Aloha state].
Digest: We noticed you used cue cards when you sang on the show.
Rademacher: I did have to write down the second part on one of the songs. The second verse is always slipping out of my head. Digest: Occupational hazard for actors having to learn and release all that dialogue?
Rademacher: Exactly!
Conversation
All comments are subject to our Community Guidelines. Soap Opera Digest does not endorse the opinions and views shared by our readers in our comment sections. Our comments section is a place where readers can engage in healthy, productive, lively, and respectful discussions. Offensive language, hate speech, personal attacks, and/or defamatory statements are not permitted. Advertising or spam is also prohibited.