Looks can only get you so far, a little eye candy is nice, but it won't keep me interested if the actor sucks and is given frontburner story after story.

Some actors have charisma, which can disguise their lack of talent, while others survive based on their looks alone. If the actor sucks, has little charisma (which seems to be the case on most soaps these days) and has only his looks to go by, no wonder soaps appear to be in trouble these days. Not that this is the only problem they face.

It's all so cynically done. On the one hand, you have a lot of soaps which don't require their men to bother to give a performance or to go to a gym or to even look their scene partners in the eye, yet you also have people like James on OLTL who just wander around stupefied in their underwear and remind me of Coco's porno moment in Fame.

The worst part is when waxed insipidness and smugness is mistaken for characterization, which seems to be happening more and more (Ford or Cookie Cutter being the most recent examples).

Gerald Anthony was sexier than most of the men hired by OLTL in the last decade, with the exception of Mark Lawson and one or two others.

Edited February 23, 201114 yr by CarlD2

Kim Zimmer had her way with him?

I kid, I kid....

No one claimed he invented the casting couch. It just seems like OLTL has taken the crown Passions once had by casting male talent based on looks alone. The domination by the Ford brothers and constant need to showcase male eye candy on the show seems to be as much his fault as Carlivati's. Valentini is very involved with the audition process, and we clearly saw what he favoured in the OLTL season of "I Wanna Be a Soap Star."

For Valentini

The hot guys with little talent don't survive if they lack charisma or sexual chem with their female co-stars. Yes, Marc Menard, I'm looking right at you.

The hot guys with little talent don't survive if they lack charisma or sexual chem with their female co-stars. Yes, Marc Menard, I'm looking right at you.

Boyd/Aidan should have happened, but nope...

The hot guys with little talent don't survive if they lack charisma or sexual chem with their female co-stars. Yes, Marc Menard, I'm looking right at you.

Not that I find him attractive, though OLTL seems to think so, but John Paul Lavoisier has survived just fine despite no acting talent or chemistry with any woman.

Boyd/Aidan should have happened, but nope...

Here you go AMS...and I agree with you

Not that I find him attractive, though OLTL seems to think so, but John Paul Lavoisier has survived just fine despite no acting talent or chemistry with any woman.

And can you tell me why?? Cause the guy is ugly and cant act s h i t.

Edited February 23, 201114 yr by Soapsuds

For Valentini

I couldnt wait for his 13 weeks to be up.

Not that I find him attractive, though OLTL seems to think so, but John Paul Lavoisier has survived just fine despite no acting talent or chemistry with any woman.

He has comedic ability though, and I think that talent and his likability with RSW kept him on the show all these years. Rex is not really a romantic lead, and JPL is more of a character actor/supporting actor than a leading man. He has the body of a leading man, but the quirkiness of a sitcom actor. I disagree that he has no acting talent.

I couldnt wait for his 13 weeks to be up.

He was awful. He made JPL look like an oscar winner.

I read something a few years back by an actor who said that women in daytime are hired for talent and looks, while the men are hired primarily for looks. I know I read this quote around the time Minshew joined AMC, because I remember thinking that that can't be true...here's this terrible and amateurish actress that AMC just hired, there's no way she was hired for any discernible talent. I still think she sucks. If they were going to hire an actress to play Erica f-ing Kane's daughter that was previously played by a talented Emmy winner, with the plan of keeping her front burner for years to come, they should've hired a much stronger actress. She is generally weak.

AllMyDays@GH, where you at with your cheer?

I couldnt wait for his 13 weeks to be up.

You weren't alone.

I've never seen any talent or charisma with Minshew either...

And then I look at Vanessa Marcil, who used to have a lot of charisma and chemistry with her co-stars despite minimum acting talent, and I wonder, what happened?

He has comedic ability though, and I think that talent and his likability with RSW kept him on the show all these years. Rex is not really a romantic lead, and JPL is more of a character actor/supporting actor than a leading man. He has the body of a leading man, but the quirkiness of a sitcom actor. I disagree that he has no acting talent.

JPL's idea of comedy acting is making stupid faces. The only thing funny about him is the thought of him being an actor.

I think he just knew how to schmooze. He has killed so many stories over the years and was the lead in a story which cost the show hundreds of thousands of viewers, and he is rewarded for it again and again and again.

Edited February 23, 201114 yr by CarlD2

JPL's idea of comedy acting is making stupid faces.

Exacrly