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The dissolution of Nancy and Craig’s marriage on DAYS has put Patrika Darbo (Nancy) and Judi Evans (Bonnie) in the same storyline orbit for the first time ever. “It’s been a pleasure,” says Evans. “What a treat [Patrika] is. What a talent. What a comedian. What an actress. She’s so much fun and such a professional I’m very lucky to be able to be working with her.” Aside from having a “fun” on-screen partner in comedy, Evans notes, “I’ve learned so much from her, too. I’ve learned about timing and more about listening. Again, it’s a new person to work with, so there’s a freshness.” Evans also finds Darbo “an amazing person to watch,” reflecting back to their characters’s original interaction together at the Brady pub. “It was the scenes we did when Nancy was first telling Bonnie about her husband,” recalls Evans. “They were serious, but they were also comedic. Patrika played that line of comedy and seriousness so beautifully. She was so funny one minute and then there were tears pouring down her face the next. Watching her do that was just really fun.”
Photo credit: JPI
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B&B’s Diamond White (Paris) loves her gig of voicing Lunella, a young roller-skating, gadget-wielding superhero in Marvel’s upcoming MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR, based on the popular comic book. “For me, I had to tap into my inner child, especially because I know that the representation of seeing a young black girl is incredible,” the actress shares. “I had to think, ‘What does my 9-year-old self even sound like?’ And then, I did some therapy. I went back to my inner child, and Lunella arrived. I think that with this character, there is a strong sense of being Black. You can see that with her family — and Black women are strong women who go head-on into any thing that could possibly be wrong, especially for their family. I feel like the strength is coming out of her. I’ve watched my grandma and my mom grow up and be strong and watched them build a family, [and] of course, I’m going to bring my dinosaur and save the city.”
Photo credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock
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Before Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea, Y&R) became a mom for the first time last year, she had plenty of practice playing one. “I’ve always played a mother on soaps,” notes the actress. “When I was on ALL MY CHILDREN, my character [Annie] had a 3-year-old daughter, so I’ve always been around kids. However, being a mom in real life now, I can finally relate to the dialogue on such a different level. Lines like, ‘My son is my number one priority,’ ‘All I want is my child to be happy,’ and ‘My son is my world,’ make so much more sense to me now that I am a mom.” Even her connection with TV son Judah Mackey (Connor) has a different resonance. Egan affirms, “I’ve always loved Judah but having my own son now takes my relationship with Judah to a whole other level. We’ve always gotten along but it just feels deeper now. He’s such a wonderful, sweet boy and I love working with him.”
Photo credit: JPI
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Being cast as family members on GH marks the second time Parry Shen (Brad) and Lydia Look (Selina) have worked together. Shares Shen, “In Spider-Man 2 with Tobey Maguire, all the background Asian male voices in the Chinatown scene where he’s walking with Mary Jane, that’s me, and all the female Chinese voices are Lydia! So, we worked together doing ADR, doing looping, for that movie. I think we recorded that in 2004, and that was the last time we’d seen each other before GH.” Chimes in Look, “The first day we had scenes together, I came in that morning hoping to run into him before we got to the set for blocking and rehearsal and I went into the makeup room and there he was, in the chair! It was like we had just seen each other yesterday. We gave each other a fist bump because we were respecting the protocols with masking and everything, and then guess what happened? We didn’t even talk, we just burst out laughing like hyenas! Everybody was looking at the two of us, these two crazy Asians! I can’t speak for Parry, but I’m pretty sure he had the same feelings as me, which were, first, ‘Oh, my God, I’m so grateful to be here with Parry and we have this wonderful storyline going in,’ and the second was, ‘Oh, my God, Parry’s playing my nephew?! What the hell! We’re not so far apart in age!’ ”
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The dissolution of Nancy and Craig’s marriage on DAYS has put Patrika Darbo (Nancy) and Judi Evans (Bonnie) in the same storyline orbit for the first time ever. “It’s been a pleasure,” says Evans. “What a treat [Patrika] is. What a talent. What a comedian. What an actress. She’s so much fun and such a professional I’m very lucky to be able to be working with her.” Aside from having a “fun” on-screen partner in comedy, Evans notes, “I’ve learned so much from her, too. I’ve learned about timing and more about listening. Again, it’s a new person to work with, so there’s a freshness.” Evans also finds Darbo “an amazing person to watch,” reflecting back to their characters’s original interaction together at the Brady pub. “It was the scenes we did when Nancy was first telling Bonnie about her husband,” recalls Evans. “They were serious, but they were also comedic. Patrika played that line of comedy and seriousness so beautifully. She was so funny one minute and then there were tears pouring down her face the next. Watching her do that was just really fun.”
Photo credit: JPI
B&B’s Diamond White (Paris) loves her gig of voicing Lunella, a young roller-skating, gadget-wielding superhero in Marvel’s upcoming MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR, based on the popular comic book. “For me, I had to tap into my inner child, especially because I know that the representation of seeing a young black girl is incredible,” the actress shares. “I had to think, ‘What does my 9-year-old self even sound like?’ And then, I did some therapy. I went back to my inner child, and Lunella arrived. I think that with this character, there is a strong sense of being Black. You can see that with her family — and Black women are strong women who go head-on into any thing that could possibly be wrong, especially for their family. I feel like the strength is coming out of her. I’ve watched my grandma and my mom grow up and be strong and watched them build a family, [and] of course, I’m going to bring my dinosaur and save the city.”
Photo credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock
Before Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea, Y&R) became a mom for the first time last year, she had plenty of practice playing one. “I’ve always played a mother on soaps,” notes the actress. “When I was on ALL MY CHILDREN, my character [Annie] had a 3-year-old daughter, so I’ve always been around kids. However, being a mom in real life now, I can finally relate to the dialogue on such a different level. Lines like, ‘My son is my number one priority,’ ‘All I want is my child to be happy,’ and ‘My son is my world,’ make so much more sense to me now that I am a mom.” Even her connection with TV son Judah Mackey (Connor) has a different resonance. Egan affirms, “I’ve always loved Judah but having my own son now takes my relationship with Judah to a whole other level. We’ve always gotten along but it just feels deeper now. He’s such a wonderful, sweet boy and I love working with him.”
Photo credit: JPI
Being cast as family members on GH marks the second time Parry Shen (Brad) and Lydia Look (Selina) have worked together. Shares Shen, “In Spider-Man 2 with Tobey Maguire, all the background Asian male voices in the Chinatown scene where he’s walking with Mary Jane, that’s me, and all the female Chinese voices are Lydia! So, we worked together doing ADR, doing looping, for that movie. I think we recorded that in 2004, and that was the last time we’d seen each other before GH.” Chimes in Look, “The first day we had scenes together, I came in that morning hoping to run into him before we got to the set for blocking and rehearsal and I went into the makeup room and there he was, in the chair! It was like we had just seen each other yesterday. We gave each other a fist bump because we were respecting the protocols with masking and everything, and then guess what happened? We didn’t even talk, we just burst out laughing like hyenas! Everybody was looking at the two of us, these two crazy Asians! I can’t speak for Parry, but I’m pretty sure he had the same feelings as me, which were, first, ‘Oh, my God, I’m so grateful to be here with Parry and we have this wonderful storyline going in,’ and the second was, ‘Oh, my God, Parry’s playing my nephew?! What the hell! We’re not so far apart in age!’ ”
Photo credit: ABC
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