Members dragonflies Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 A Closer Look Charles Pratt on Jessie & Angie Weekly: Jesse’s been acting really off lately- What is going on? Pratt: We have been gingerly explore both Jesse’s reluctance to talk about (his past), and Angie’s curiosity about those missing 20 years. They have chosen to gloss over it, romanticize those years and push them aside. But then Jesse started to get phone calls. We build it up to a point where there was someone obviously in Jesse’s life, and they seem to have come back into it. Jesse will never lie to Angie but he protects her by telling her so much truth. It is tearing him apart inside. Weekly: This week a mystery woman shows up at Jesse’s door. What will viewers think? Pratt: The audience will be pretty convinced that there is a young, beautiful woman in his past that he has had a recent affair. Weekly: Does Angie find out about it? Pratt: Angie actually meets her; she thinks she is a woman from down the hall. She doesn’t know or suspect anything, other than she is a nice young woman from down the hall. Frankie meets her as well. They don’t know who she really is and she is not telling them, because that is really up to Jesse.-and how and when they tell. Weekly: So who is the woman? Pratt: We revel to the audience, untimely that the woman he has been meeting secretly with is his daughter. We play the reality of a man who has two families. He kept the knowledge of his family from Angie because he didn’t want to hurt her. The daughter obviously comes with a mother who is still with us. Weekly: How will Angie react when she discovers the truth? Pratt: Why Jesse has not brought this is obviously the biggest question, but circumstances will intervene so that Angie will only as Angie can, hold a lot of her emotions inside as she reacts to Jesse’s secret with great understanding. Probably understanding beyond what she feels- until ultimately it all builds up inside of her and she has to let it out. Weekly: How will Frankie feel? Pratt: Frankie suddenly has this half sister he didn’t know he had and there is this crushing knowledge and reality that when Jesse was away from Frankie in his formative years, Jesse was raising someone else with apparently equal love. Weekly: Jesse’s daughter Natalia, ends up asking Jesse to meet with her Mother. Pratt: Jesse with be forced to meet with Natalia’s mother as will Angie and everyone else. Surprise, surprise she is actually a wonderful person it is a story of conflict as well as acceptance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alwaysAMC Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Sounds great! Can't wait to see how it plays onscreen. They could totally have Natalia and Cassandra (if they bring her back) be frenemies...like the new generation of Kenlee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CassieFan Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 I would love to see Victoria Rowell in Natalia's mother role...God, can you just imagine catfight scenes with her and Debbi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Thank goodness Pratt is actually going to write for Angie/Jesse. Sounds good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted October 5, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 So this is Pratt's "Its not what you think"? People predicted this months ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Southofnowhere Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Natalia's mother is white! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members detroitpiston Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Sounds interesting, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AddictedToSoaps Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 This sounds really good. Can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DrewH Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 I wonder if we'll get a name actress to play Natalia's mother, or if it'll be a newbie. I hope it's someone that can act opposite of Debbi Morgan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Sorry. No. Lame. When Jesse was brought back I predicted this exact storyline: "Jesse's secret family." Sure, it's a time honored soap concept with back from the dead people but it's so old now. And especially after they went to SUCH LENGTHS to claim that Jesse had been living this monastic life and had never thought of anyone else but Angie and Frankie. DW sold that material he was given about that stuff. Now it's all, "oh, not really, I was completely lying!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 I don't think the show ever wrote Jesse to have this "monastic" life. He claimed that he never stopped thinking about and loving Angie and Frankie, which is totally true. But you can't expect that within a 20 year period, Jesse never had any sort of relationship, be it platonic or not. I would rather have this be their story rather than have these characters wasted and not written for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adam Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Agreed. Your latter point was my biggest fear of a Pratt regime based on his past writing tenures where diversity was not his strong suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted October 5, 2008 Members Share Posted October 5, 2008 Sounds good. I'm really happy Angie & Jesse haven't been pushed to the backburner like so many predicted would happen after their reunion. I like Natalia so far, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AMCHistory Posted October 13, 2008 Members Share Posted October 13, 2008 I am holding my breath, but who knows, these characters from Jesse's past may work out as well for the storyline as Zach did for Maria's. The chemistry between Koffman and Williams needs to be there for this to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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