Days- Is Renee Jones (Lexie) ashamed of her career...

[Andrew]

I must say i have read several times that Renee Jones (Lexie Carver) seems really ashamed of her role in Friday The 13th part 6 where then 28 Year old Renee Jones played Sissy, a young girl who gets her head twisted off by Jason, the movie is from 1986.

Why will she never talk about the mvoei?, i mean she has gotten an ok career after the movie, so why does she seems really ashamed of the film?

Has anyone seen the movie?.......

[Noel]

There are too many Friday the 13th movies to be quite honest. I remember there was a Loving star by the name of Lauren Marie Taylor who played Stacey Donovan who was on one of those Friday the 13th movies too. I can't remember which one though. I wouldn't say Renee Jones is ashamed of being in the movie though. I mean, it puts food on the table, right? Maybe the movie itself didn't gross enough in the box office? However, I can't forget diva Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. A movie she believes tarnished her reputation. I loved Miss Hollywood Royalty in that movie!

[Andrew]

Lauren Marie Taylor appeared in Friday The 13th Part 2....... Yes That is right.....

[Andrew]

This has nothing to do with Renee Jones. But what about Susan Ward, Brad Pitt and Meg Ryan, they seem ashamed of being in soaps?

[R Sinclair]

It's not shame -- it's the fact that Hollywood looks down upon B movie and Soap actors. You don't necessarily convince someone to give you a shot a supporting or lead role in a major motion picture or primetime drama by proudly bragging about being in a medium they shun. Sarah Michelle Gellar even said that after she won the Emmy for AMC's Kendall, she thought that would mean something and that Hollywood casting directors couldn't care LESS about that, because they don't hold daytime in the same esteem as they hold primetime and feature films.

That's why a LOT of these actors who get pumped up because the daytime fans lift them and their soap characters up to the highest heights, decide to leave because they carry that hot air with them -- and then quickly get deflated and come back to soaps.

Maurice Benard

Ingo Rademacher

Cameron Mathison

Eden Riegel (if this girl comes back to AMC only to leave again in 6 months, I swear... I'll start the KILL BIANCA MONTGOMERY OFF AMC online petition myself!)

But I digress. I don't think it's shame, it's just you don't gain credibility by proudly screaming about something the industry uses to discredit your skills -- no matter how talented you are.

[AMCer]

Renee Jones doesn't even come close to the most embarrassing movie career of a soap actor, that belongs to Lesli Kay.

Plus didn't Victor Miller, former AMC writer, create the Jason character?

[juppiter]

She was 28 then? So she's 50 now?! Wow! I had no idea!

[Noel]

Yep. I found that out sometime last year and was shocked! She looks awesome!

[Chris B]

When she was on Soap Talk she talked about it and seemed very positive about the experience. BTW, is Meg Ryan really hateful about her soap roots? She sure was great as Betsy!

[JackPeyton]

^i met renee at the soaptalk taping, had her sigh my jason movie she was in and all. she didnt seem ashamed at all. its a horror movie - its not an epic romance or anything, and as longas people look at it like that there is nothign to be ashamed about. far worse horror and non horror moves have been made. she told me that filming that was kinda fun, and i was all yeah i bet, i cant act at all, but id love to do a horror movies, because how could it not be fun? lol

re Meg Ryan, i have seen her talk about being on ATWT before and she didnt seem bitcy or unhappy about it.

i think that soaps - and horror movies - are to stars what a lot of jobs we have all had in the past are to us. im a manager at the marriott now, do you think i brag about my days as a stock person at kmart? no. im not ashamed of it, but i have had many better things to brag about.

[Vee]

IIRC, Renee has talked about F13 with fondness in the past.

Her death in that film is hilarious. She's so obviously a dummy being flung out a window.

[UKBoi]

I dont see what Susan Ward has to be ashamed about...it's not like she's moved on to bigger and better things in fact she seems to have vanished off the radar completely, which is a shame as she'd be great on any soap, so too bad she thinks she's above them.

Can we also add Rebecca Budig to this list? Poor diva comes tottering back to AMC and costs someone else their job, ensuing one of the most humiliating firings in soap history. I agree about Eden Riegel, I mean fair enough she might 'love' doing theatre, but Jacob Young managed to combine the two jobs so I dont see why Eden cant; her constant comings and goings are tiring on even the most devoted of fans.

She did porn, right?

[AMCer]

^^^

Lesli Kay did a whole load of "soft-core" porn in the mid to late 90s. Some of those titles according to IMDB include, Cyberella: Forbidden Passions, Deadly Charades, Petticoat Planet, and Forbidden Games. Then when she came onto ATWT and had a bunch of racy sex scenes, which raised the ire of some viewers.

[Matt P.]

Oh my to Lesli Kay...

I'm a huge fan of the Friday the 13th series. A few soap opera actors have had their start from this series. I can't mention them all at the moment but each movie usually has someone who has been on some sort of a soap opera.

In speaking of Holly Marie Combs's character "Vicki," she had to have been the DUMBEST character in the whole entire series. When you see a killer is coming at you with a knife, you run away! You don't stand there, bat your arms around, in hopes that he or she is not going to get you.

Poor Susan Ward, she was doing okay for herself in the early 2000's but it's very scarce when she gets roles.

[Toups]

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