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SPINAL TAP
Hayley Erin’s (Kiki, GH) favorite red-carpet moment at this year’s Daytime Emmys came when she got to meet Kassie DePaiva (Eve, DAYS), the real-life wife of James DePaiva (Dr. Bensch), Erin’s frequent scene partner. “While I was walking the red carpet, I finished an interview and I felt a poke in my side,” Erin sets up. “I turned around and it was Kassie DePaiva! Of course, I knew who she was, but I had never met her before. She was so lovely and sweet and I instantly fell in love with her — which is natural, because I totally assumed she would be great. A few minutes later, I finished another interview and I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around and it was Kassie again. She said, ‘Shoulders back!’ I have terrible posture, I can admit it, and I really appreciated having someone remind me [to be mindful of it]. It was very maternal and sweet. But it was so funny to me because Jim DePaiva has said the same thing to me, on multiple occasions! I don’t think they would be communicating about my bad posture, so it just goes to show that they are on the same level. So now they are my favorite couple of all time!”
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TOGETHER AGAIN
DAYS’s Mary Beth Evans (Kayla) recently got to share scenes with Tyler Christopher (Stefan), who she first worked with when she played GH’s Katherine and he was cast as Nikolas. “It’s so funny because I think I was his first on-screen kiss even back a thousand years ago,” she muses. “And back on GENERAL HOSPITAL I said to him at the time, ‘You call me ‘Mommy’, it’s over!’ I was like 32 or something [laughs]! I just think he’s such a good actor, he’s adorable, so it’s exciting to work with him because we have that history. I think he’s so good and he’s a really nice addition to DAYS and Stefan’s a complicated character. We had some scenes where he said something like, ‘You look so familiar. You seem so familiar,’ which is funny. It’s nice that these writers pay attention to history on the show, which is kind of cool.”
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GRASS ROOTS
“She’s a hoot!” declares Michael Mealor (Kyle, Y&R) about co-star Marla Adams (Dina). “I didn’t know at first that she was in Splendor in the Grass and that’s one of my favorite movies of all time. We were talking one day and when she told me, I was like, ‘Wait a sec!’ To meet someone who was actually there on the set and working with [Director] Elia Kazan and those other legends blows my mind. Marla told me some great stories of how they shot things.” Including this behind-the-scenes account, in which Adams recalls, “I was four months pregnant in real life when I made that movie. Natalie [Wood] and I were going down the road in this old Model T to see Warren Beatty and the whole thing went up in the air when we hit the ruts in the road and Gadg [Kazan’s nickname] said to me, ‘Marla, get out of that car!’ He then put in this guy with black hair and a silly little pink hat and I said, ‘That’s not going to work. I can do it.’ So, instead of going 30 miles an hour, I went only 15 miles an hour, and I didn’t hit the cows or the ruts!”
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LAW AND DISORDER
Soap alum Tobias Truvillion (ex-Vincent, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) currently stars on BET’s new legal drama, IN CONTEMPT, which tells the stories of Manhattan public defenders, and previews the season finale (part one airs this week) by noting, “Gwen is in a very vulnerable place and we’re not sure what the future may hold for her. It’s a real cliffhanger!” Truvillion, who plays Gwen’s love interest and former law professor, Bennet, was last seen in the prime-time sudser EMPIRE as Jamal’s closeted love interest, record producer D-Major. “The experience was wonderful, working with Jussie [Smollett, Jamal], Taraji [P. Henson, Cookie], Terrence Howard [Lucious] and all those guys,” Truvillion praises. “It was amazing playing a character as complex as he is. It all boils down to love, but just being a black male in America today is a complex situation, and then with him not being openly gay, it added a lot of layers that I would love to continue to explore. I think we were just starting to touch the surface of who he really is, so I would love to come back. They have a whole new season coming up, so you never know!”
SPINAL TAP
Hayley Erin’s (Kiki, GH) favorite red-carpet moment at this year’s Daytime Emmys came when she got to meet Kassie DePaiva (Eve, DAYS), the real-life wife of James DePaiva (Dr. Bensch), Erin’s frequent scene partner. “While I was walking the red carpet, I finished an interview and I felt a poke in my side,” Erin sets up. “I turned around and it was Kassie DePaiva! Of course, I knew who she was, but I had never met her before. She was so lovely and sweet and I instantly fell in love with her — which is natural, because I totally assumed she would be great. A few minutes later, I finished another interview and I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around and it was Kassie again. She said, ‘Shoulders back!’ I have terrible posture, I can admit it, and I really appreciated having someone remind me [to be mindful of it]. It was very maternal and sweet. But it was so funny to me because Jim DePaiva has said the same thing to me, on multiple occasions! I don’t think they would be communicating about my bad posture, so it just goes to show that they are on the same level. So now they are my favorite couple of all time!”
TOGETHER AGAIN
DAYS’s Mary Beth Evans (Kayla) recently got to share scenes with Tyler Christopher (Stefan), who she first worked with when she played GH’s Katherine and he was cast as Nikolas. “It’s so funny because I think I was his first on-screen kiss even back a thousand years ago,” she muses. “And back on GENERAL HOSPITAL I said to him at the time, ‘You call me ‘Mommy’, it’s over!’ I was like 32 or something [laughs]! I just think he’s such a good actor, he’s adorable, so it’s exciting to work with him because we have that history. I think he’s so good and he’s a really nice addition to DAYS and Stefan’s a complicated character. We had some scenes where he said something like, ‘You look so familiar. You seem so familiar,’ which is funny. It’s nice that these writers pay attention to history on the show, which is kind of cool.”
GRASS ROOTS
“She’s a hoot!” declares Michael Mealor (Kyle, Y&R) about co-star Marla Adams (Dina). “I didn’t know at first that she was in Splendor in the Grass and that’s one of my favorite movies of all time. We were talking one day and when she told me, I was like, ‘Wait a sec!’ To meet someone who was actually there on the set and working with [Director] Elia Kazan and those other legends blows my mind. Marla told me some great stories of how they shot things.” Including this behind-the-scenes account, in which Adams recalls, “I was four months pregnant in real life when I made that movie. Natalie [Wood] and I were going down the road in this old Model T to see Warren Beatty and the whole thing went up in the air when we hit the ruts in the road and Gadg [Kazan’s nickname] said to me, ‘Marla, get out of that car!’ He then put in this guy with black hair and a silly little pink hat and I said, ‘That’s not going to work. I can do it.’ So, instead of going 30 miles an hour, I went only 15 miles an hour, and I didn’t hit the cows or the ruts!”
LAW AND DISORDER
Soap alum Tobias Truvillion (ex-Vincent, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) currently stars on BET’s new legal drama, IN CONTEMPT, which tells the stories of Manhattan public defenders, and previews the season finale (part one airs this week) by noting, “Gwen is in a very vulnerable place and we’re not sure what the future may hold for her. It’s a real cliffhanger!” Truvillion, who plays Gwen’s love interest and former law professor, Bennet, was last seen in the prime-time sudser EMPIRE as Jamal’s closeted love interest, record producer D-Major. “The experience was wonderful, working with Jussie [Smollett, Jamal], Taraji [P. Henson, Cookie], Terrence Howard [Lucious] and all those guys,” Truvillion praises. “It was amazing playing a character as complex as he is. It all boils down to love, but just being a black male in America today is a complex situation, and then with him not being openly gay, it added a lot of layers that I would love to continue to explore. I think we were just starting to touch the surface of who he really is, so I would love to come back. They have a whole new season coming up, so you never know!”