NB's Interview w/ Adrienne Frantz (Amber, Y&R)

[JackPeyton]

Have you listened to her episode of Loveline with the Graz? OMG! Its fantastic.

Amber was written to bad. Im shocked she made it with any fans to be honest.

AF isnt the first to come out and complain about him. I do think, from interviews and whatnot, he was fair and decent and kind, but that doesnt mean he was like that 24/7. He also could have been worried about this soap actress nabbing her his son as her husband and money ticket. Something i dont think he was worried about with BAG & TS.

Randy is so bad. Its funny.

ETA: If you have not heard the loveline interview, listen to it here- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67l2x_ad...aziadei-l_news/

[JackPeyton]

Some interesting emmy stuff from Nelson's interview with Frantz.

TVG: Congratulations on your Emmy pre-nomination. What episode did you submit for outstanding supporting actress contention?

Adrienne Frantz: I submitted the scenes in which Amber and Daniel break up. Michael Graziadei [Daniel] picked our reels together. We decided our reels would feature each other no matter what. He picked the first set of breakup scenes before we reunited, and I picked the ones leading up to our breakup.

TVG: I think I’m falling in love with you. Are you worried that it’ll be hard for you to traverse from younger to the supporting category?

AF: I don’t know. Y&R asked me which category I’d like to submit myself in. They even offered me lead, but I said, “No, no, no!” There is no way I’d get nominated in lead, so I stuck with supporting. I would hope whoever has the best work is nominated. If I’m not nominated, then I’d be OK with that.

[Cat]

Are you talking about the ones they did on Y&R when they were both calling up Loveline at the same time and then Phyllis called up as well? They were funny.

But I still think that AF has been incredibly lucky -- lucky to click with Brad Bell after she was fired from SuBe. And, later, lucky when the Y&R/Sony people wanted to bring her to the show. I would never have thought about bringing Amber over and, like I said, the first year she was there, I was ready for her to die a la Carmen Mesta. Again, she got lucky because she had friends like Jeanne Cooper and Michael Grazadei going to bat for her. Her chemistry with both has been great but, as she rightly pointed out in the interview, it would have been wrong to submit herself for lead. Right now Amber is supporting and that's the way it should be.

Yeah, that's true. You don't make omelettes in that business without breaking a few eggs. However, he was worried about AF nabbing Randy?!! LMAO!

Also, BAG? Was the luckiest SOB in Primetime. The guy romanced DonnaMartinGraduates! in real life AND allegedly had a "friends with benefits" thing with Shannen Doherty on the side (watch them during SD's last season on 90210 -- major sparkage!). And then he scored Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. And THEN when she left the show, he landed Prince's MostBeautifulGirlInTheWorld Vanessa Marcil. They even have a kid together. And now he's got Megan Foxy-Mama in his back pocket. How? Why? HOW? Dude must be packing a frickin shotgun in his pants.

I watched SuBe all through its 3-year run (yes, even through the jewels-of-Our-Lady-of-Rosario shite... the mummified parents... even Francesca's two-week death-bed scene). The joke wore thin after Week 3. At least Tori had some comic charm on 90210. That sweet girl SpawnOfSpelling eventually got paired with? Was a saint to put up with his eye-bugging awfulness. There were moments when even Jake Behrens looked like he wanted to choke him.

[JackPeyton]

No, they actually co-hosted a real episode of loveline, i posted the link above.

[DeeeDee]

UGH!

[Ann_SS]

LML's Amber was horrible and I think that Adrienne struggled to play that character. Amber got more tolerable when the porn story fizzled.

I have had a crush on BAG since 90210. He has only gotten better looking with age. He must be a nice guy to get all those women.

[JackPeyton]

I thought of you the moment i read that! lol.

I really wanna know the games they play there. And it must come from higher up the stars....

[Cat]

Seriously. Y&R is stocked full of actors who have put in some great work. And yet when we get to Emmy-time, we see Tammin Sursok, Thad Luckinbill, Amelia Heinle and Vail Bloom nominated for Supporting while Christian LeBlanc and Michelle Stafford seem to be the default setting for Lead.

[sheilaforever]

I have a soft spot for the Frantz...

...BUT Cat couldn't be more on the money:

1. Brad Bell is who made Adrienne Frantz who she is now: Even though she denies it, character&real life persona seem to go way in hand here...

2. Without Susan Flannery's mentoring she'd probably be still the horrible actress from Sunset Beach

3. Graz saved her on Y&R. LML totally ruined the character, even moreso than Brad Bell did in the couple of weeks of her B&B stint

[DeeeDee]

Pretty much!

[MarkH]

Nah. Doesn't it seem

? Cashton has convinced me.

After Clear Springs...when she started having a SERIOUS relationship with Daniel, and she and Kay found one another....it's like a whole new character.

Compare AF's Amber to Lily, Colleen, even Mac. This actress HAS A PERSPECTIVE. She brings a PERSONALITY. She captures ATTENTION. She gives line readings that are THOUGHT OUT and EXPRESSIVE. All these things, IMO, make her head-and-shoulders above most of her young peers.

They also morphed Amber from unmotivated seductive kewpie doll...sort of generic party girl (under LML) into a girl who loves fiercely. This version of Amber would not, IMO, pull off the "Cane scam".

I find her an improvement over B&B's Amber...although Amber did have a HEART at times...and Amber again has that.

I liked Amber even then, Cat...but mostly because the actress BROUGHT something. She commanded attention. She tried to ACT. She brough PERSONALITY. This is miles above any of her peer females on the show. Now that Amber has moved beyond selfish...to loving and fiercely protective of her "clan", I love her even more.

On B&B, Amber's one big dream was to get Stephanie's love...since her own mother (Tawny) had been such a mess. I love that Amber FINALLY has that with Kay.

My heart always goes to those who were wounded so young, and especially those who seem to be able to overcome it a bit. In contrast to, say, Victor (who still carries the surliness of his abandonment) or Jack (who still carries the warped orientation to females that he got when Dina left the family)

That is a testament to the actress, IMO.

Yes, I agree. Flannery and Cooper have saved this young actress. But -- to her credit -- she learned the lessons. I'm not sure Graz saved her, though. I really feel that Cooper saved her.

I did find a certain lack of gratitude toward B&B and Brad Bell in the interview. That was the only sour note for me.

The whole internet porn thing involving Amber was terribly misguided. That said, the show seems so eager to be out of the (once successful) Lily/Daniel pairing. It makes me wonder if the highly Christian/love puppies CK and the "dirty" (to quote Jeanne) Graz don't mesh well in real life? In that sense, I see Frantz and Graz as much better partners in real life too.

[classicmoment]

Really? BAG and SD? never heard of that one, interesting. But yeah BAG did nab quite a few of them girls, it was VM that made me go hmm must be something there. The only person from 90210 I never heard in any romantic/sexual trist with cast members are IZ and JG

[JackPeyton]

I agree, she is

I didnt get that feel, but i see where others would. I think it was much more of her not wanting to go to that craptastic show and play a 1d character when she could be the darling of daytime playing a layerd complex roles where the show knows balance.

[Cat]

And what a damning indictment of B&B that is. Amber was Bell's darling for a good five years! She drove so much story at one point. I must admit I enjoyed the show so much during that era even though I wasn't an Amber fan.

[MarkH]

Amber and Deacon remade that show for me. Because, like me, they had it in for the Forresters. I HATE the Forresters. Amber wanted to screw 'em over, and so did Deacon. Who could hate that?