HONOR ROLL
Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie, DAYS) says she was thrilled to see her name on the list of prenominated Supporting Actress contenders for this year’s Daytime Emmys. “I was shocked,” she recalls. “I’m sure I’ll get rushed out in the next go-round but that was very gratifying. Just amazing. That category is overflowing with talent so I’m sure it’s going to go to a younger, bouncier, more cheerful lady.” Of the scenes she chose, Seaforth Hayes shares, “I submitted a scene with Kristian Alfonso [Hope], in which I did most of the talking and actually got some close-ups, and I submitted a scene with the character of Chloe, which was a confrontational scene and it was funny, and then a brief scene of getting the news that Julie’s son was dead. All in all, it’s a little more than four minutes. After 50 years on DAYS, it’s the best I can do [laughs]. I worked with two wonderful actresses, and Billy [Hayes, Doug, her husband] is in the scene where I get the news about David, so I was really glad about that. I never know exactly what they’re looking for. I had four nominations for Lead Actress and picked the wrong stuff every time, so I have no confidence that anything further is going to happen but I am really pleased to have been prenominated.”
FAST FRIENDS
Though they had only a limited time working together, Wes Ramsey (Peter, GH) reports that he and Anders Hove (ex-Faison) developed an easy rapport when the Danish actor recently reprised his role. “It was an absolute pleasure to get to know Anders,” says Ramsey. “I really feel like he’s one of those special people where, if you’re lucky to cross paths with them, you don’t forget it. He’s a very intense human being when it comes to his work and he takes it very seriously. I believe he feels things very deeply; he is a very sensitive soul and you can see that in his work. He has a great sense of freedom and playfulness in his performance and there were moments in working with him where I knew what Steve Burton [Jason] meant when he said, ‘You never know what you’re gonna get from that guy!’ That was very thrilling and exciting and it certainly keeps you on your toes in the scene!” Before Hove returned to Denmark, Ramsey was delighted to join Hove and a few other GH colleagues, including Kin Shriner (Scott) and Laura Wright (Carly), for a celebratory meal. “At the end we were able to all gather together and have a really wonderful lunch, which was great. It was nice to get to bond with him a little bit outside of work, too.”
WEDDING DAY BLUES
“Doing a soap wedding sometimes lasts longer than the marriage itself,” chuckles B&B’s Thorsten Kaye (Ridge), who was the show’s most recent groom. “What they should do is roll tape on what actually happens between the scenes. Obba [Babatundé, Julius] kept us entertained with his impressions, and Jacob Young [Rick] gets very funny when it gets late at night. We all have shoes that are too small but they look great. But the men have it better than the women. You can see them slowly fading because in the beginning, they’re so proud of their beautiful footwear and their accessories and things and by the end of the night, they’re just cursing all of it. But, it is fun to have most of the cast together in one place because we can all catch up with the people we don’t see too often, so that’s nice. I’m hoping Ridge and Brooke can make it work this time so we don’t have to do this again.”
THREE AMIGOS
Daniel Goddard (Cane, Y&R) notes that when his character and Lily were separated and he was living in the Chancellor mansion, it was a chance for the actor to buddy up on the set with Jason Thompson (Billy) and Thad Luckinbill (J.T.). “At first, it was just Cane and Billy being roommates and they were doing The Odd Couple,” explains Goddard. “Jason and I were having a great time with that and it was wonderful levity. Then the dynamic changed when J.T. moved in but Thad was fun to work with again.” With Cane’s baby, Sam, also living in the house, Goddard was hoping for another movie homage to take place. “I thought it would’ve been cool if we had done Three Men and a Baby,” he chuckles. “Although it didn’t happen, the three of us had this battle about who’d be [the character played by] Steve Guttenberg. Since Cane is the father, I’d automatically be stuck with the Ted Danson role and I decided J.T. should be in the Tom Selleck role. So, I said to Jason, ‘You’re Steve Guttenberg!’ And then Jason tried to find solace in the fact that Steve Guttenberg’s movies have made over a billion dollars, but I’d tell him, ‘That doesn’t matter! It’s still Steve Guttenberg!’ and he’d just say, ‘That’s cool with me.’ ”