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GH’s Chloe Lanier (Nelle) had a blast shooting the confrontation scenes she shared with Laura Wright (Carly) after Carly heard the recording of Sonny confessing to sleeping with Nelle. “It was so fun!” Lanier trills. “It was great because we know each other outside of work and trust each other, so we weren’t worried about going after each other’s jugular, basically, in the scenes. We could just let loose!” After work that day, the duo even supped together. “Laura and I actually went to an Italian restaurant and she very sweetly bought me dinner,” the actress reports. “We kind of just talked and hung out and in her words, ‘broke bread.’ Of course, I would never think that Laura actually felt about me the way Carly felt about Nelle, but it was still nice to kind of just decompress and pig out for a little bit afterward. It’s nice to relax after scenes like that, because they can be very soul-sucking! But that’s why we do this job, to have scenes like that! I don’t want to be nice to people all day long! I like the nitty-gritty scenes that give me a chance to really act.”
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While his wife, Colleen Bell, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Barack Obama, B&B Executive Producer/Head Writer Bradley Bell ran the show from overseas. “I must say that our two years in Budapest was an incredible experience,” Bell raves. “My kids went to school there. It was a magical, wonderful time. That said, arriving back in Los Angeles and being here in CBS Television City just feels like home. Budapest is a great place to live, and since I do feel that I’m a writer at heart, being sequestered in a lovely apartment in Budapest, right off the Parliament building and the Danube River, was in many ways a writer’s paradise. Now that I’m back, I am playing the producer a bit more, but it was wonderful just being much more exclusively a writer.” Bell adds that there is a small part of Budapest on the show now, courtesy of newcomer Danube Hermosillo (Darlita). “How is that for a coincidence?” Bell marvels. “When I first heard it, I thought, ‘I can’t believe it!’ That is just amazing.”
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Before wrapping up his stint as GH’s Rudge, David Lee was grateful to share the stage with Maurice Benard (Sonny), when the characters had a major confrontation on the bridge. “My dressing room for the last week or so that I was there was right opposite his door and I ran into him a few times in the hall and he was so funny,” reports Lee. “He has this really great, dry sense of humor and I didn’t expect that coming from him at all. He’d be in his tank top or something with his hair all slicked back, looking just like a real character, and I’d pop a comment and he’d pop back with a really dry comment that just put me on the back of my heels and made me laugh, and so getting on set with him, wow, he just gunned it out, man. He was really solid, really in it. We did some improv, which was quite nice, with a little bit of the movement. You’ve got to be quite tight with your marks because of the cameras, so there’s not much that you can do with your movement, but every now and then he would stray a little bit from the dialogue, within the context of his character, and it would make me react and do something [unplanned]. It was so fun. He was great to work with and a real gentleman.”
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According to Sharon Case (Sharon, Y&R), some careful planning went into making the hilarious scene where her character dumped a pitcher of milk on Nikki’s head happen in — pardon the pun — one fluid motion. “When I read it, I assumed it’d be a little glass of milk,” Case recalls. “I didn’t find out until I got on set and they brought out a pitcher, but Melody [Thomas Scott, Nikki] seemed okay with it. Then I started thinking, ‘How am I going to pour this? The milk is going to go everywhere.’ ” Luckily, “Everything went exactly as planned,” Case smiles. “I poured in the right place to get enough over the front of Mel’s face and over the sides, without choking her, but I had to make sure that I didn’t get any on me because my costume had not been doubled, so I made sure to hold my body away and my arm more forward. I even told Mel, ‘Once they call cut, do not move because what if it’s slippery?’ I think it turned out great. Mel said there was one surprise for her, and that was the milk was cold. Very cold.”
GH’s Chloe Lanier (Nelle) had a blast shooting the confrontation scenes she shared with Laura Wright (Carly) after Carly heard the recording of Sonny confessing to sleeping with Nelle. “It was so fun!” Lanier trills. “It was great because we know each other outside of work and trust each other, so we weren’t worried about going after each other’s jugular, basically, in the scenes. We could just let loose!” After work that day, the duo even supped together. “Laura and I actually went to an Italian restaurant and she very sweetly bought me dinner,” the actress reports. “We kind of just talked and hung out and in her words, ‘broke bread.’ Of course, I would never think that Laura actually felt about me the way Carly felt about Nelle, but it was still nice to kind of just decompress and pig out for a little bit afterward. It’s nice to relax after scenes like that, because they can be very soul-sucking! But that’s why we do this job, to have scenes like that! I don’t want to be nice to people all day long! I like the nitty-gritty scenes that give me a chance to really act.”
Photo credit: Steven Bergman
While his wife, Colleen Bell, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Barack Obama, B&B Executive Producer/Head Writer Bradley Bell ran the show from overseas. “I must say that our two years in Budapest was an incredible experience,” Bell raves. “My kids went to school there. It was a magical, wonderful time. That said, arriving back in Los Angeles and being here in CBS Television City just feels like home. Budapest is a great place to live, and since I do feel that I’m a writer at heart, being sequestered in a lovely apartment in Budapest, right off the Parliament building and the Danube River, was in many ways a writer’s paradise. Now that I’m back, I am playing the producer a bit more, but it was wonderful just being much more exclusively a writer.” Bell adds that there is a small part of Budapest on the show now, courtesy of newcomer Danube Hermosillo (Darlita). “How is that for a coincidence?” Bell marvels. “When I first heard it, I thought, ‘I can’t believe it!’ That is just amazing.”
Photo credit: JPI
Before wrapping up his stint as GH’s Rudge, David Lee was grateful to share the stage with Maurice Benard (Sonny), when the characters had a major confrontation on the bridge. “My dressing room for the last week or so that I was there was right opposite his door and I ran into him a few times in the hall and he was so funny,” reports Lee. “He has this really great, dry sense of humor and I didn’t expect that coming from him at all. He’d be in his tank top or something with his hair all slicked back, looking just like a real character, and I’d pop a comment and he’d pop back with a really dry comment that just put me on the back of my heels and made me laugh, and so getting on set with him, wow, he just gunned it out, man. He was really solid, really in it. We did some improv, which was quite nice, with a little bit of the movement. You’ve got to be quite tight with your marks because of the cameras, so there’s not much that you can do with your movement, but every now and then he would stray a little bit from the dialogue, within the context of his character, and it would make me react and do something [unplanned]. It was so fun. He was great to work with and a real gentleman.”
Photo credit: Getty
According to Sharon Case (Sharon, Y&R), some careful planning went into making the hilarious scene where her character dumped a pitcher of milk on Nikki’s head happen in — pardon the pun — one fluid motion. “When I read it, I assumed it’d be a little glass of milk,” Case recalls. “I didn’t find out until I got on set and they brought out a pitcher, but Melody [Thomas Scott, Nikki] seemed okay with it. Then I started thinking, ‘How am I going to pour this? The milk is going to go everywhere.’ ” Luckily, “Everything went exactly as planned,” Case smiles. “I poured in the right place to get enough over the front of Mel’s face and over the sides, without choking her, but I had to make sure that I didn’t get any on me because my costume had not been doubled, so I made sure to hold my body away and my arm more forward. I even told Mel, ‘Once they call cut, do not move because what if it’s slippery?’ I think it turned out great. Mel said there was one surprise for her, and that was the milk was cold. Very cold.”
Photo credit: JPI
