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Poor MVJ having to defend this

31 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

 

I am so embarrassed for the actors. Also whose spouse would want to do this? 

Why can't Brad just avoid love scenes for a while? 

WTF?

Preserving those passionate on-screen kisses will involve a bit of creative camera work, and the magic of editing. Each actor will go through the motions separately, performing inches away from the camera. “They’ll look like they’re nose to nose, in the throes of passion,” Bell says. “But they’ll be shooting scenes all by themselves.”

Simulated sex scenes, though, will require more than clever camera work and creative lighting. Bell says he plans to use a combination of stand-ins and blow-up dolls. Actors’ spouses, who test negative for the novel coronavirus, will join their partners for love scenes that involve touching.  Life-like dummies will fill in for more intimate on-camera work.

“We have some life-like blow up dolls that have been sitting around here for the past 15 years, that we’ve used for various other stories — (like) when people were presumed dead,” says Bell. “We’re dusting off the dolls and putting new wigs and make-up on them and they’ll be featured in love scenes.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnchmielewski/2020/06/16/the-bold-and-the-beautiful-is-back-with-a-plan-to-keep-social-distancing-from-stealing-the-sex/

Writer Bradley Bell reveals that the show has been already working to overhaul the studio to allow for social distancing. “We’ve been at the studio and we’ve totally revamped the control room and the hair and makeup room,” he says. “We’ve got plastic dividers up and 6 feet distance between everyone in the booth. We’re going over all the precautions with the studio heads.” Original cast member John McCook (Eric) adds that the actual shooting of scenes will change, as well. “Now if there are four people in a scene, we’re not shooting all four of them at a time,” McCook explains. “We don’t want four actors on the set at once, so we’ll be shooting two people, and then they’ll reverse and shoot the other two people. So, it’s like doing a one-camera show, or doing film. I imagine it’s going to be a little difficult at first, but I am just so glad we’re coming back."

Definitely Nikki Newman 

https://deadline.com/2020/06/the-bold-and-the-beautiful-returns-production-covid-19-protocols-season-33-1202960103/

The daytime drama will resume filming its current season on Wednesday, June 17, at Television City in Los Angeles. There is no airdate set yet but the hope is for the half-hour soap to return to originals in early-to-mid July

The cast and the crew were tested for the coronavirus today, with regular testing a key part of the new protocol. Everyone will work shorter days with staggered call times and smaller amount of cast on set at one time. To accommodate that, some of the scripts that had been already in the can were reworked.

People don't want to hear it but I agree with them. If soaps don't make changes, and make them quickly, they don't deserve to last another 5 years. From a pure quality standpoint I don't think they deserve it anyway, but aside from that if they don't take this opportunity to take a hard look at themselves and make changes when it comes to representation they can just go. They need to take substantive action behind the scenes and in front of the camera and not just do some performative nonsense in an attempt to shut people up. 

Odd.

It will be interesting to see what their ratings look like if Y&R is airing old episodes when they return with new ones. I think it will just hurt B&B frankly. 

Y&R and GH still seem to be weeks away from starting production. 

JY recently did an IG live where he confirmed he will not be returning to B&B. He moved away and it wasn't worth the commute basically. 

I wasn't crazy about his Rick but I didn't really like anyone in the role. 

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

Yeah. They set her up to fail. They could appear as if they were throwing her fans a bone by bringing MM back, but their ultimate intention is for her to slowly fade into the background and pretend like they tried to make it work before getting rid of her when they *think* no one’s looking.

Totally agree. I loved Hilary but Amanda is a dud and thats mainly because they have half-assed their way through the character. I saw it happening the second she came to town with Hilary's exact face and barely anyone had a reaction. 

5 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Oh god, I forgot about Tamara Braun at Days .

 

I was thinking more of the lines of actors who have failed at multiple soaps but of course there I think every soap has  that one actor/actress  who fails at everything on a single soap yet the failure lasts for years.

I wonder if Julie Pinson counts too? I remember reading she had success at Port Charles but it was a real flash in the pan. Next came her Y&R role which was hyped up but was just short guest stint. After that it was Days, where I liked her as Billie later on but critically it was a mixed bag. The less said about her ATWT work the better.

 

 

I forgot about him doing Models Inc but wasn’t he only in a few episodes of it? That reminds of Jon Conboy forcibly shoving down Teresa Hill’s character Eden down us GL viewers throats in 2003.

Julie Pinson was so popular on Port Charles they killed her off the show before it was even cancelled lol. I don't think many people cared much about Eve nor her pairings. 

I have pretty much lost interest in these random episodes. The bloom is officially off the rose. I am not watching new episodes either but they would do better to pick a story arc or something. 

How in the world did I forget these scenes with David and Kat on GL? Was this the first time the N word was used on a soap? 

20 hours ago, dragonflies said:

HLove Michele Val Jean's comment. This is how you build a soap couple organically!!

 

https://m.facebook.com/CadyMcClain/photos/a.135036933215173/3202460049806164/?type=3

 

Ha! This is framed and on a wall in my house. Kevin & Lucy were my couple. As in they weren't on anyone's radar as a couple till I went to Claire Labine and said what if Lucy decides she needs therapy. Not because she really believes it but because she thinks Kevin is cute. Claire loved it, told me to run with it and that was that. Gosh, I loved writing those two. 

Rarely do I think you can credit a single writer for a couple but I think you can give MVJ almost sole responsibility for Kevin and Lucy. 

Usually they submit in the wrong (supporting) category because they feel they have no shot in Lead. 

Considering how limited the competition is and that there are only 4 soaps left I find category fraud ridiculous now. You're barely competing against anyone now (the great actors have all left and the ones who remain barely and tarely get material), the least you could do is submit in the proper category 

16 hours ago, kalbir said:

I ignored RM's bad acting for the first three years of B&B, but as the 1990s went on his acting got progressively worse.

13 hours ago, Darn said:

Most Realistic Teen - Susan (GL)

 

And 9 years later? Still a teen.

Was this when she was played by Brittany  Snow?

Ahh this was during the "I got an email from my wife saying she wanted me to sleep with her best friend and get her pregnant so I did" story

Smh!

Skipping next week. I would only watch the premiere and I have seen that a zillion times. 

10 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Just watched the Stephanie/Brooke confrontation episode. You could really feel 12 years of Stephanie's pent up rage being unleashed. No wonder Susan Flannery won the Lead Actress Emmy in 2000. 

 

Hard to believe this was Bradley Bell's work and not Bill Bell's. Bradley also took elements of his father's work. Rick/Amber/Kimberly was Bradley's version of Phillip/Nina/Cricket. 

I was honestly watching and thinking the episode did not hold up well at all. A little camp goes a long way. 

B&B has never been a show to really dig deep into its characters or their relationships but they could have done a little more than have Stephanie's every other word be tramp, whore, and ho and "you destroyed my family" over and over. We get it. 

And as far as being surprised this was Brad. He had a co-HW at the time but even saying that there was a NOTICEABLE difference and considerable drop in the quality of the dialogue between the argument between Sally and Stephanie earlier in the week and what aired today. 

12 hours ago, sheilaforever said:

Glad you enjoyed the episode. From my recollection a must-see TV period of B&B but it took a major nose-dive as soon as Sheila was MIA. I think it was until 2-3 months that we saw Sheila again in the spychiatric ward with Kin Shriner and Elleen Wheeler.

Yeah. I thought the show pretty obviously nose dived in 1995 and 1996. Just bad. The one bright spot was probably Charles Grant.