Scene and Heard

Due to some chaos behind the scenes while shooting a seemingly simple scene involving Olivia telling off Austin at the Port Charles Grill and storming out, Lisa LoCicero (Olivia, GH) reports, “I may actually make the blooper reel for the first time! Olivia has this whole monologue — ‘How dare you,’ ‘You stay away from my kid,’ and I was supposed to grab my purse and slam out the door. First take: Rising anger, anger, anger anger, ‘You stay away my kid,’ grab my purse from the chair — purse is stuck to the chair. Chair comes off the floor. We start breaking up into laughter. ‘And, Cut. Okay, let’s do that whole thing again.’ Second take: Anger, anger, anger, rising, rising rising, ‘You stay away from my kid,’ grab the purse from the chair, walk out the door — door is locked! Now the extras are, basically for good reason, peeing their pants, and the rest of the people in the scene, we’re all laughing, too. It would have been impossible not to! I’m like, ‘I don’t know how we are going to get through this again without laughing!’ But we did. The third time was the charm!”  

Hunter King (Summer, Y&R) reveals that she and TV dad Joshua Morrow (Nick) have a long-running joke where they’re loath to admit how much they love each other. “Joshua is my favorite person to give crap to,” the actress declares “Sadly, [the last visit] wasn’t long enough but we made the most of it. The first time we made eye contact in the hallway, I immediately said, ‘Nope!’ and turned away from him. That was the first interaction and then the next time, he did the same thing to me. Then finally we said, ‘Hello’ and we gave each other a hug. He secretly whispered in my ear that he doesn’t truly hate me and loves me like a daughter, but as soon as we were done hugging, he shouted, ‘You’re disgusting! Leave me alone!’ ” King is determined to publicly discredit her co-star. “One of these days, I’m going to get a secret recording of him telling me that I’m like a daughter to him and then I’ll release it on social media,” she smiles. “It’ll probably become my ringtone [laughs].”  

When B&B’s Paris sang at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium, the show re-created the evening when Diamond White actually crooned before a ballpark full of fans. “It is a clash of real life and soap opera life,” White notes. “It was a crazy experience. I couldn’t believe it when they were going to put it in the show. I was like, ‘That is really cool.’ They really made it look like Zende was there. It was a really creative experience. When they first asked me if I wanted to sing at a Dodgers game it was like, ‘Of course I do!’ I’m actually a baseball fan and I got to see the game afterward, which was a nice bonus. When I was on the field and waiting to sing, I was weirdly calm and collected. I don’t know why but I was like, ‘I can do this.’ And then, once the crowd started yelling, I was like, ‘Okay, you’ve got it, girl!’ And after it was over I was like, ‘Wow, I did that.’ And then, I went and got two shots from the stadium bar and had a nice relaxing time watching the game. It was an experience I’ll always remember. The ‘after’ is always more fun for me because I get to take in what just happened. Beforehand, I’m just trying to remember the lyrics.”