Eric Braeden’s 4 Tips for Surviving Soaps"The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional clichés of daytime and try to make it real," THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS star told Backstage. "That has been my motivating cause ever since I started 33 years ago in daytime." Back then, he found himself put off by the lack of rehearsal time and lengthy pages of dialogue to memorize, until his wife said, “Why don’t you look at this as a challenge?" The rest is soap opera history.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES: Will and Sonny Finally Say 'Yes'
“Like Macklemore says, behind the keys of the message board people are doing it,” says DAYS star Freddie Smith (Sonny). “But I could never compare what I’ve experienced as a straight actor playing a gay part to what the LGBT community deals with. From the small sliver I’ve seen, my hat goes off to the LGBT community for showing such strength and courage all these years.”
Krista Allen joins MISTRESSES
Allen (ex-Billie, DAYS) will guest-star during Season 2 of the summertime sudser as Janine Winterbaum, a "real housewife" of Beverly Hills who enlists Harry and Joss to cater an elaborate soiree.