Actors who have either appeared on Daytime TV and those who havent but still talk smack about it

Morgan Freeman-He spoke to Nelson Branco & basically said after 100 years its time to say goodbye. Plus last night he was the subject of Oprah's Master-Class On OWN and completely crapped on his time on The Electric Company and never mentioned his stints On Texas, Ryan's Hope & Another World. MF came across as a total TV Snob

Lauren Holly also talked to Nelson Branco in 2009 when he was still at TV Guide Canada and when he asked how she felt about soaps ending (She was on AMC as Julie from 86-89) basically said soaps dont tell good story and were all crap

I think it's the way these actors diss their times on soaps, is what makes people mad. There's no need to be condescending about their time on soaps. It's not like they don't have bad gigs now & then.

I remember Nolan North from PC dissed his time on that show

Edited January 23, 201213 yr by dragonflies

I think it's the way these actors diss their times on soaps, is what makes people mad. There's no need to be condescending about their time on soaps. It's not like they don't have bad gigs now & then.

I remember Nolan North from PC dissed his time on that show

Yeah He said More people saw him In TMNT than all six years Of PC. But then he was up for Steve Webber On GH when Scott Reeves was cast

But wouldn't you (as an actor) at least feel some kind of appreciation that the work you did twenty years ago still resonated with someone? I mean, what did Bill Shatner have to brag about from '70 to '85....TJ Hooker ?

But here's my question: why is it okay to trash TJ Hooker or Lauren Holly's Lifetime movies but soaps are somehow this sacred thing that people should describe with hearts and flowers? What if Lauren Holly described her Lifetime movies as crap would anybody here blame her. Actors have some work they're proud of and other gigs that were just a job. They shouldn't have to pretend 3-4 years on some soap was the pinnacle of their career just because some soap fans get all precious about it. I'm reminded of a joke by Chris Rock that seems applicable for these actors, "[soaps] are like the rich uncle that paid for your college...but molested you."

But here's my question: why is it okay to trash TJ Hooker or Lauren Holly's Lifetime movies but soaps are somehow this sacred thing that people should describe with hearts and flowers? What if Lauren Holly described her Lifetime movies as crap would anybody here blame her. Actors have some work they're proud of and other gigs that were just a job. They shouldn't have to pretend 3-4 years on some soap was the pinnacle of their career just because some soap fans get all precious about it. I'm reminded of a joke by Chris Rock that seems applicable for these actors, "[soaps] are like the rich uncle that paid for your college...but molested you."

I don't think it's as much about not being the pinnacle of their career as it is something they seem actively ashamed of. If your career's biggest highlights are I Know You Saw Jennifer Love Hewitt's Cleavage, or Nora Ephron Romantic Comedy #2434, it's not exactly Shakespeare.

Edited January 23, 201213 yr by CarlD2

But here's my question: why is it okay to trash TJ Hooker or Lauren Holly's Lifetime movies but soaps are somehow this sacred thing that people should describe with hearts and flowers? What if Lauren Holly described her Lifetime movies as crap would anybody here blame her. Actors have some work they're proud of and other gigs that were just a job. They shouldn't have to pretend 3-4 years on some soap was the pinnacle of their career just because some soap fans get all precious about it. I'm reminded of a joke by Chris Rock that seems applicable for these actors, "[soaps] are like the rich uncle that paid for your college...but molested you."

There is a huge differnce between being critical of your work on daytime & Trashing Daytime Dramas altogether as now beneath you

Robin Wright pisses me. She says Santa Barbara was like an prison and was made she had to extend her contract in order to do Princess Bride. Then recently Chelsea Handler who was a huge SB fan had her on & said You know Rob Reiner who directed you in PB saw u on SB cause he was a fan and thats why he cast you. RW says I wish he hadnt watched it

Really Robin if he hadnt watched SB u wouldnt have done PB

This is silly. When I worked retail I bashed my previous grocery jobs. When I worked at a gym I felt doing retail and grocery were beneath me. In college when I got a crappy role in a show, it was known that I thought it was crap. People have egos. Working in a certain industry doesn't mean you to have to like it or respect it so a few fans don't cry.

This is silly. When I worked retail I bashed my previous grocery jobs. When I worked at a gym I felt doing retail and grocery were beneath me. In college when I got a crappy role in a show, it was known that I thought it was crap. People have egos. Working in a certain industry doesn't mean you to have to like it or respect it so a few fans don't cry.

I don't think it's about fans crying - I mostly think it's about someone not seeming foolish for putting on airs, especially if most of their careers have been crap.

People like George Pilgrim didn't even have fans to cry about - they just made themselves look silly.

Edited January 23, 201213 yr by CarlD2

If an actor was in soaps and says they sucked, well it depends on how they say it. If they waffle about it, I get annoyed with them. If they say it was something I did, but it is in the past let's move on no problem.

If an actor was in soaps and says they sucked, well it depends on how they say it. If they waffle about it, I get annoyed with them. If they say it was something I did, but it is in the past let's move on no problem.

Correct there is a difference I did a soap it wasnt for me (like Matt Morrison)& The ones who say I did that but it was only daytime. That is so snobby imho

It really is a matter of opinion, some actors just see past soap work very negatively, sometimes because of ego and other times just because they didn't get much out of it. It really does depend on how much they learned and how much it actually furthered their craft, those are the only reasons any actor has to look back positively about a past role.

Some actors just buy into their own hype after they move on to bigger things and don't want a connection to the genre because it has been so mocked by the mainstream.

Edited January 23, 201213 yr by ReddFoxx

What does Further their craft mean. Some assume that means moving on to Primetime & Film. While others just want to be a working actor. Their are tons of former soap actors who continue to work but never made it huge in film & TV that still love their soap days

By furthered, I meant how much it improved their acting ability and taught them lessons about the industry. I notice most of the ones who actually reflect positively on their soap days are ones who seem to have gotten good experience from it.

There is an emmy roundtable from 2011 where everyone there speaks to this and the disconnect still between TV and Film . They talk about how its more about the role and not the medium. Bryan Cranston Himself A LOVING & OLTL Vet spoke that when Malcom in the middle Hit reporters told him u finally made it and he was like ive been working since the 80's and Ive been happy doing what Ive always been doing

By furthered, I meant how much it improved their acting ability and taught them lessons about the industry. I notice most of the ones who actually reflect positively on their soap days are ones who seem to have gotten good experience from it.

Okay I follow you there. Yeah or just loved the people they worked with as well, Ive noticed

Edited January 23, 201213 yr by John

Mostly, I don't care what these actors have to say about soaps. I have had a laugh or two over the years, when basically all a person has done are soaps, then they dis the genre publically upon getting a pilot, the show gets canceled, after a few episodes and they are then back on the soap. At the very least make quite you are finished with a job before you trash it, I say.