Reva Returns
Kim Zimmer is thrilled Reva is in rare form once again on GUIDING LIGHT. The vet credits it all to the writing and the casting of Tom Pelphrey as her demon-seed son, Jonathan.
“Reva gets a vicarious thrill out of dealing with this guy,” analyzes Zimmer. “It’s fun for her to play his game. She hated that he went to bed with his cousin on purpose, but the fact is she’s challenged and intrigued. This kid is a thorn in her side or an itch that she needs and wants to itch. He’s annoying as hell and she’s determined to find a way to make him a human being. Or not. She may give up, too.”
Zimmer especially liked the scene where Reva laughed in Billy’s face after the recent fountain incident. “That just caught me,” she says, noting that the script didn’t say to start cracking up. “Jordan (Clarke, Billy) was looking at me like…well, he didn’t know if I was being Kim laughing at something or what. I said, ‘I don’t know either, but whatever, it felt good.’ At the moment it felt really good. That’s old Reva. She used to do that a lot.”
Obviously, new head writer David Kreizman has a great handle on who Reva is. “And we have Lorraine Broderick back doing breakdowns, which is good because she knows all of these characters very well, too,” points out Zimmer. (Indeed, Broderick head wrote for GL in the early ’90s.)
“You know what’s good about the show, too?” she adds. “[One story isn’t] playing every day. It’s not Reva/Jonathan five days a week.”
It’s a good thing, too. “They can’t afford to pay me five days a week!” cracks Zimmer.
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