Members detroitpiston Posted January 24, 2009 Members Share Posted January 24, 2009 You know, she's not a bad actress, I've seen her on Beverly Hills 90210, Angel, and Law & Order SVU and she was pretty good. She just wasn't Carrie, no one but Christie Clark can play her IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 25, 2009 Members Share Posted January 25, 2009 I will never know if the writing or the acting were to blame with Taylor. I think they deliberately cast her because they were planning on ruining Taylor for the sake of Noah and Julia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted January 25, 2009 Members Share Posted January 25, 2009 Jennifer Bransford as Carly Corinthos, GH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jfung79 Posted January 25, 2009 Members Share Posted January 25, 2009 I'm not going to try to judge recasts that took place years before I was born or where I otherwise never saw other portrayers of the character. This is just going strictly off characters where I can compare different people who played them: BEST Matt Crane as Matt Cory, AW Brian Krause as Matt Cory, AW Van Hansis as Luke Snyder, ATWT Billy Magnussen as Casey Hughes, ATWT Mick Hazen as Parker Munson, ATWT Jesse Soffer as Will Munson, ATWT Daniel Cosgrove as Bill Lewis, GL Marcy Rylan as Lizzie Spaulding, GL Jennifer Hammon as Karen Wexler, GH/PC Jonathan Bennett as JR Chandler, AMC WORST Kelli Barrett as Maddie Coleman, ATWT Paul Korver as Chris Hughes, ATWT Cady McClain as Rosanna Cabot, ATWT Jeff Phillips as Matt Cory, AW Michael Dempsey as Alan-Michael Spaulding, GL Stephen Martines as Tony Santos, GL Jacob Young as Lucky Spencer, GH David Gail as Joe Scanlon, PC Alex Mendoza as Joe Scanlon, PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NorrthCafe Posted January 26, 2009 Members Share Posted January 26, 2009 Susan Batten (as ATWT;s Connor), Billy Warlock (as GH's AJ Quartermaine), and Jennifer Bransford (as GH's Carly Corinthos)... it's a wonder no one in casting lost a job over those three. Batten and Warlock are strong actors, just not in those roles. Heather Rattray as ATWT's Lily? She made me almost like Lily. She gave her such a strong edge. MB's Lily always whined too much. Heather's Lily was a take-no-prisoners person. She was fantastic. She made me believe that she was the daughter of 'ole Lucy Walsh'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 Anyone mention Melody Anderson (who I just found out is from my hometown of Edmonton) as Natalie Dhillon on AMC? Cuz if not they better. I was 12 at the time and couldn't believe they chose someone so different and wrong for the recast... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 I forgot completley about recast Taylor! even though I think she may have been on longer than a year, right? But yeah the writing for her was just out of character and pretty useless. I actually liked Gibbs as Kevin on OLTL though I agree he may have been the wrong choice. I also liked Tacy Melchoir as Kelly and felt she was never given enough time to come into her own (though ultimately I was fine with Heather Thom replacing her). I admit some of my choices are unfair--I liked Laurence Lau as Sam on OLTL simply because I NEVER liked the guy who first played him--just a personal reaction I think lol. Loving had a LOT of recasts and I'm not sure I can even go thru which I liked and which I didn't. It seemed like every Alden was played by 4 actors... I had NO idea Elizabeth Mitchell- who I LOVE on Lost -was a Dinah Lee recast. That wouldn't work IMHO. I had no idea Felicity LaFortune was Nora on OLTL for a while. Another bad one though he never was given much to do anyway was the model who last played Del on AMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 Actually that's not completely true. Andrea Barber (Kimmy Gibbler) was awesome as the original child Carrie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 Awww, I loved me some Alec Musser. Hot & cocky= the perfect combination. On to more Re-casts: BEST: Kassie DePaiva as Blair Cramer, OLTL Jon Lindstrom as Craig Montgomery, ATWT Marcy Rylan as Lizzie, GL Beth Chaimberlain as Beth Raines, GL Mary Beth Evans as Kayla Brady, DAYS WORST: Marj Dusay as Pamela Conrad, SB Kimberlee McArthur as Kelly Capwell, SB Lauren Koslow as Kate Roberts, DAYS (Deborah Adair IS Kate Roberts!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 she was fantastic as Julie in New Nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 LOV and RH both were swallowed by recasts, it seems. Even the show mainstays were played by three or four people. I've never seen Lisa Peluso as LOV's Ava, but I've seen Roya Megnot and I absolutely floved her. There's an episode on YouTube where it's Jack and Stacy's wedding rehearsal, and Ava decides to be a self-centered bitch and announces that she and Curtis have gotten married, thus taking the spotlight from Jack and Stacy and putting it on herself. Very good stuff. Roya's Ava was a lot like early Erica Kane to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 Roya Megnot was special and Peluso definitely took some getting used to, considering how glamorous she was. The character certainly changed- it was a lot easier to believe that Roya's Ava was raised by Nada Rowland's Kate in a blue collar lifestyle than it was Peluso. But in the end, Peluso is the poo and there is no denying that she made Ava Rescott all her own. To tell the truth, any soap would be lucky to snap up Peluso. She's an absolute gem and is always entertaining to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 I mentioned her upthread, and David followed up. Melody is in one of my favorite movies, Speed Zone!, of the Cannonball Run family of fine films. She and Shari Belafonte are racing partners in a high-tech Ferrari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 That's what I was thinking. I think there might be a Peluso episode on YouTube, I'll have to look and see so I can watch and compare. I definitely got the blue-collar feeling from Roya's Ava, the early Erica qualities of being blue-collar but very much (and unapologetically) believing that she deserves and can get much, much better. The way Curtis handles her around the room, the way everyone makes sure to get in their digs at her ("Ava, you win the bad taste award for 1986!"). Oooh, there's some Lisa Peluso on YT, but it's all clips of her with Paul Anthony Stewart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted January 27, 2009 Members Share Posted January 27, 2009 Lisa Peluso was great, but I think she may have been even greater on AW. I met her at the Emmys during this time, and she's a very attractive lady. Oh man, I'm forgetting what happened now, but about a year ago she made news here in the NY area. I'll have to look it up... Anyway, I wasn't a big AW watcher, but from the few times I saw her, her Lila character was cracking me up. The way she said "go'in own" (going on) in that southern fried drawl, she tickled me. But Roya, like Susan on AMC, she's responsible for a lot of my early soap memories. I said this in another thread months ago, but she was like a cross between Erica Kane and Tina Lord. She had that petite, petulant thing going on. And that amazing exotic face. I can see her strutting into Kate's with one of those little hats with the veil on top of her head. There was nothing subtle about the Ava & Kate/Erica & Mona connection, it was downright boldfaced. *** I wasn't around for early Erica, but from fans who were, they seem to agree that Rachel (Robin Strasser) on AW was much more the blue collar, "around the way girl" than Erica was. Erica was a princess who acted like she was already rich, a real priss. Rachel was more down to earth, more "real", calling Ada "Mom" and not "Oh Mother!-ing" her all the time like Erica to Mona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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