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Chrishell Hartley (Jordan, DAYS)
“I’ve embellished a little bit. I auditioned for CSI or something like that, and they asked if we could roller-skate for a roller derby scene. So I was like, ‘Oh, okay, it’s like roller-skating.’ I kind of lied and said yes. But then they took us for a callback with the director at a roller derby rink. I was so bad. I fell like 50 times. I obviously knew I wasn’t going to get the part. I just shook the director’s hand and then I was like, ‘Listen, if you ever need a roller-skater, I’m your girl.’ And then I left. It was really bad.”
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Mary Beth Evans
(Kayla, DAYS)
“When I was 14, I got a job at Taco Bell. I was the daughter of a single mom and wanted money to take acting classes, so I needed to get the money for them myself. So I said I was 16. Back then, you could just say you were 16. Nobody asked for any proof or anything.”
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Parry Shen (Brad, GH)
“The coolest job when I was in high school [in Queens, NY] was to be a ball boy at the U.S. Open. It paid well, and you got to be on TV. But there was a big vetting process. And I fibbed, saying I could pick up four-to-five tennis balls in each hand. They must have known I was lying,
as I did not go further
in the process!”
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Kathleen Gati
(Obrecht, GH)
“I’m a terrible liar! I did have ‘horseback-riding skills’ on my resumé that I had to remove when push came to shove! I barely know how to climb onto a horse.”
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Courtney Hope (Sally, B&B)
“Yes, I did, for a bar job. I had just gotten out of bartending school back in the day and they asked me if I knew how to make a specific drink and I said, ‘Yes.’ I’d never heard of the drink before in my life and I was very nervous. They asked me more things that I wasn’t quite sure of so I just kind of guessed, and then I’d turn the question around on them and be like, ‘Is this a specialty of yours? That sounds really interesting.’ That’s the only time I’ve really done that.”
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Robert Scott Wilson (Ben, DAYS)
“It was a commercial for Jeep. In the breakdown, they wanted people who were good at mountain bike riding, and I was like, ‘Yeah, sure. I am.’ I booked it and the day of the shoot, they changed it to downhill biking. I still thought I could ride a mountain bike down a hill. Little did I know that it was the most death-defying, obnoxious mountain biking, very aggressive and down a crazy hill. One of the directors ended up doing the stunt, because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. It was so scary. But they did use me taking the bike off the Jeep and riding on the flat surfaces.”
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Darin Brooks
(Wyatt, B&B)
“Yes. DAYS OF
OUR LIVES was really my first gig [as Max] and when I met with my agent, we went over what to put on my resumé, and I included that I appeared in Blue Crush, because they shot it in Hawaii, but I was never really in Blue Crush. I did do extra work for Blue Crush, but it wasn’t really a role. But, I had no credits, so what was I supposed to do?”
Chrishell Hartley (Jordan, DAYS)
“I’ve embellished a little bit. I auditioned for CSI or something like that, and they asked if we could roller-skate for a roller derby scene. So I was like, ‘Oh, okay, it’s like roller-skating.’ I kind of lied and said yes. But then they took us for a callback with the director at a roller derby rink. I was so bad. I fell like 50 times. I obviously knew I wasn’t going to get the part. I just shook the director’s hand and then I was like, ‘Listen, if you ever need a roller-skater, I’m your girl.’ And then I left. It was really bad.”
Photo credit: Shuterstock
Mary Beth Evans
(Kayla, DAYS)
“When I was 14, I got a job at Taco Bell. I was the daughter of a single mom and wanted money to take acting classes, so I needed to get the money for them myself. So I said I was 16. Back then, you could just say you were 16. Nobody asked for any proof or anything.”
Photo credit: JPI
Parry Shen (Brad, GH)
“The coolest job when I was in high school [in Queens, NY] was to be a ball boy at the U.S. Open. It paid well, and you got to be on TV. But there was a big vetting process. And I fibbed, saying I could pick up four-to-five tennis balls in each hand. They must have known I was lying,
as I did not go further
in the process!”
Photo credit: JPI
Kathleen Gati
(Obrecht, GH)
“I’m a terrible liar! I did have ‘horseback-riding skills’ on my resumé that I had to remove when push came to shove! I barely know how to climb onto a horse.”
Photo credit: JPI
Courtney Hope (Sally, B&B)
“Yes, I did, for a bar job. I had just gotten out of bartending school back in the day and they asked me if I knew how to make a specific drink and I said, ‘Yes.’ I’d never heard of the drink before in my life and I was very nervous. They asked me more things that I wasn’t quite sure of so I just kind of guessed, and then I’d turn the question around on them and be like, ‘Is this a specialty of yours? That sounds really interesting.’ That’s the only time I’ve really done that.”
Photo credit: Shutterstock
Robert Scott Wilson (Ben, DAYS)
“It was a commercial for Jeep. In the breakdown, they wanted people who were good at mountain bike riding, and I was like, ‘Yeah, sure. I am.’ I booked it and the day of the shoot, they changed it to downhill biking. I still thought I could ride a mountain bike down a hill. Little did I know that it was the most death-defying, obnoxious mountain biking, very aggressive and down a crazy hill. One of the directors ended up doing the stunt, because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. It was so scary. But they did use me taking the bike off the Jeep and riding on the flat surfaces.”
Photo credit: Shutterstock
Darin Brooks
(Wyatt, B&B)
“Yes. DAYS OF
OUR LIVES was really my first gig [as Max] and when I met with my agent, we went over what to put on my resumé, and I included that I appeared in Blue Crush, because they shot it in Hawaii, but I was never really in Blue Crush. I did do extra work for Blue Crush, but it wasn’t really a role. But, I had no credits, so what was I supposed to do?”
Photo credit: JPI
