All shitty actors who should be banned in Daytime

[DRW50]

I think people were too busy talking about his nips to see his talent.

[Ann_SS]

LOL! Have to say that I don't remember noticing them.

[DRW50]

He was called "Pepperoni nips."

I think the second Casey should have a bigger career too.

I'm trying to remember the last time I enjoyed a flavor of the month actor. Mostly I think of them as dull or tic-laden, or both.

[Ann_SS]

The most recent young actor that I enjoyed was the one who played Damon, Tad's son on AMC. I thought he was interesting with good energy.

[John]

Yes Finn Wittrock is a good actor & has done well post AMC dumping him for Asher

[marceline]

When did daytime become a country club that should be allowed to ban people? For the record, they've been banning women, blacks, gays and Latinos for years and that's why it's dead.

The only people who should be banned are the people who are currently running it and destroyed it. People like Frons, Higley, Carlivati, Valentini, MAB, Wheeler, etc.. It should be open season for everyone else, especially for actors and fans who want to try their hand at writing, producing and managing. The genre literally has nothing left to lose.

[juniorz1]

Which plays into why I miss having guys like Mark Collier and (to a lesser degree) Thad Luckinbill on daytime. Easy on the eyes and can act what's on the page.

[juniorz1]

I agree with most of what you posted here, right down to Anne Heche (I didn't get to see William Fitchner on ATWT but I've seen him around in his post-soap career and think he's a talented and edgy actor). Zach Roerig oozed charisma and his was a charisma that was very current, different from what most of his peers had going. I thought he was underrated as well- he played Casey to a "T" and crafted a real character there, a guy that many of us have probably met while growing up and navigating through life. I actually liked Billy Magnussen, his replacement, very much as well but still think Roerig's Casey was more defined and honest than BM's. I liked them both but agree that Roerig was something special and often went unnoticed.

Another one that is kind of funny for me was Jake Weary. I could see miles and miles of natural talent in him (none of the qualities I see in his mother Ms. Zimmer) and wished he'd stayed to play Luke's coming out and everything after on ATWT. He was far superior to his replacement IMO.

Yeah, I'm not for banning, but there are some I think pretty much suck and don't like and she's definitely one of them. I remember she was torture during JER's last stint, going on & on about hiding her pregnancy from Rex. Yes, the storyline could get a little stale and repetitive, but it's an actor's job to find the meat of a story and a scene and I felt there was enough meat there that a better actress could have really done something with it. Nadia Bjorlin is another who, while improved, just isn't a good actress. I appreciate that she tries, but it's just unnatural to her. Some others I'd call out:

Jason Cook

Yvonne Zima

Austin Peck

Kyle Lowder

Kyle Brandt

John Paul Lavosier

Bruce Michael Hall

Melissa Archer

Kristen Alderson

Hunter Tylo

Jeff Trachta

Yvonne Perry

Martha Madison

Tom Degnan

Van Hansis

Kristian Alfonso (I hate to say it, because I used to just love her, BUT....)

Steve Wilder

Susan Ward

Timothy Adams

[Susan Hunter]

Sometimes good looks or a good body goes a long way towards making people forget how bad an actor can be or distracts the audience long enough while they're getting better. How many actors got a pass from the audience because they were so beautiful?

[Ann_SS]

Great to see someone else who could see Roerig's talent and charisma. I think that it is his naturalness that reminds me of James Dean. I would rave and rave about him on SOC, but others barely seemed to notice him. They were all about that mediocre Jennifer Landon, much like The Vampire Diaries fans who ignore him in favor of its less talented stars. Bill Magnussen was alright, but he paled in comparision to Roerig.

I so agree about Weary. He definitely had talent. He was a far more talented and interesting actor than his hysterical soap acting mother. Is he even still acting? Weary leaving was a real loss for ATWT. Van Hansis got the usual soap fan fawning, but he was simply horrific for most of his time in the role of Luke. Gah.

[Bright Eyes]

I love the whole cast of The Vampire Diairies, but being a fan of Zach Roerig from his As the World Turns stint (and Ian Somerhalder's hotness) were what made me watch the show in the first place. I'm just happily surprised he hasn't been killed off yet.

[LoyaltoAMC]

It's always been my opinion, and it's probably not a popular one, that there really is not much good acting in daytime. Mostly there are good actors who do bad acting, and there are bad actors who do bad acting. It's just the nature of the camp, inferior writing, directing, and production values compared to other genres. For me, people like Jeanne Cooper, Eric Braeden, Liz Hubbard, Larry Bryggman, David Canary, Erika Slezak, and Tony Geary fall into the good actor/bad acting category...well-trained actors who know how to emote the chew the hell out of the scenery and have gotten awarded for it over the years. Bryggman is a terrific actor. I've seen him on film and stage, and he can be brilliant, but I doubt ATWT was anything more to him than a steady paycheck that allowed him to do theater, and I think it showed a lot of the time. For my money, GL consistently had the most numbers of good actors giving good performances...actors who could give very subtle and nuanced performances when they were "on" and who were often overlooked come Emmy time. People like Chris Bernau, Peter Simon, Maureen Garrett, Ellen Parker, Lisa Brown, Maeve Kinkead, Robert Newman, and many others. If you look back to Dark Shadows, they had some incredible actors--Jonathan Frid, Louis Edmonds, Grayson Hall, Thayer David, David Ford, Joan Bennett--who gave some of the worst performances ever to be witnessed on the small screen. I love soaps, and I realize that it's just the nature of the beast.

[Khan]

Just one of the many, many reasons why GUIDING LIGHT remains first in my heart.

[rhinohide]

Mine too. But so few went on to do more.

[Khan]

I think it helped, too, how GL's writing (when it was good) tended to be more literate, for lack of a better word, than DAYS's, let's say, or GH's. (Don't get me wrong, I loved DAYS and GH, too, although I never held them to the same standards as others, nor did I watch them for the same reasons as I did GL.)

To me, the acting on soaps in general could be surprisingly good, especially given the circumstances (fast production schedules, limited rehearsal time and whatnot). However, the quality of acting from this-or-that actor, or group of actors, also depended greatly on the quality of that particular show's writing. Whenever you had shows that practiced nuanced, character-based writing -- the PGP soaps, ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE (during the times when they weren't too OTT), RYAN'S HOPE, SANTA BARBARA, in some respects -- you, in turn, got good-to-great performances out of the actors. But, whenever you had shows that tended to emphasize more the melodramatic fluff that "outsiders" point to in describing soaps as a whole, the acting as well tended to look contrived and stylized and not always subtle.