Members DRW50 Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 Over the years, soap stories have been written, or rewritten, to convince an actor to stay on a show. What are some of them? Didn't Santa Barbara do the Sonny Sprocket story so Lane Davies wouldn't leave? I think Ryan's Hope did the Delia stock market success and marriage to Roger stories, lighthearted in tone, to get Ilene Kristen to stay another year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 Every story Tony Geary's done the last 5 years? I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 I can see the Ethan story being like that. Then again I sometimes wonder if they'd be interested in stopping him from leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 Pretty much every Victor Newman storyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AdelaideCate007 Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 In the last years of Another World, didn't they basically cater to Jensen Buchanan's every whim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MissLlanviewPA Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 Tristan Rogers was going to leave GH in 1991, but Gloria Monty convinced him to stay another year--although he felt the Robert/Anna reunion happened way too fast, and I think he wound up quitting a little earlier than expected when Finola was fired the way she was. I guess Mac's creation was a way to make sure Robin had someone to raise her once TR & FH left? I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BingCherry Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 I remember there was speculation that the Tad/Dixie/Liza triangle development in '95/'96 was done in an effort to keep both MEK and Cady around as both their contracts were up around the same time. MEK stayed but Cady left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ghfan89 Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 Mac was created as means to try to persuade TR into staying on the show. Also Brenda's breakdown after Sonny left her at the alter was written to keep VM on the show after MB left, but ultimately became too emotionally draining, so they ended the story rather quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 FH was leaving to do Jack's place and only had like two weeks left of filming when Gloria Monty told her that was her last day. Then we got a few weeks of Camilla Moore As Anna. Monty letting FH go early was the last straw for ABC with Monty. Because of that and ratings, ABC fired her & Hired Wendy Riche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ellabelle Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 I have heard that the whole godawful David/Dixie saga was something Cady wanted, and since she was in contract negotiations, it somehow happened. David was so much better off with Erica, and the idea that he would go from an on-again/off-again thing with La Kane to panting after Dixie freaking Martin was just ridiculous and totally unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 16, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 Wasn't Dixie/Zach something she asked for as well? I can't remember. Of course that was when she rejoined, not when she left. Didn't Maurice Benard threaten to quit if they fired Tamara Braun (early on)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DavidsMuse Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 VI was in contract negotiations in 2000 as well, and David/Dix was why he stayed, instead of rejoining GL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wingwalker Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 I remember in a interview with Scott Bryce (Craig Montgomery, ATWT) he talked about he was going to leave ATWT, but Doug Marland convinced Scott to stay another year after pitching Scott a story he had planned for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ellabelle Posted March 16, 2012 Members Share Posted March 16, 2012 I don't buy that for a second. In 2000 VI was in a storyline with the Queen of Daytime, and they'd both been told that Erica would be single while dealing with Bianca coming out, and then their characters would get back together. Why would he possibly want to ditch a future storyline with Susan and with Erica's newly outed teenage daughter, given the HUGE publicity the show got for the coming out storyline to have a romance with Dixie Martin/Cady McClain? I also don't buy that he seriously considered going back to GL in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 17, 2012 Members Share Posted March 17, 2012 I believe Cady was interested in working with Thorsten Kaye. I thought that could have worked, but, uh, didn't. I could understand what she wanted for the Dixie character in that run - more edge, more like Rosanna Cabot, which is some of her best work ever - but it was so poorly done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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