TV Guide: Will & Sonny Sneak Peak

[darraholic]

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Get out your calendars. After months and months of frustrating delays, false starts and countless emotional pitfalls, Days of Our Lives' Will and Sonny will finally make love on the NBC soap's Nov. 14 episode. And — steam alert! — TV Guide Magazine has this exclusive video preview of what's sure to be a very talked-about scene (below).

"The Will and Sonny fans have waited a long time for this but the delay has been a good thing," says Freddie Smith, who plays Sonny. "It's allowed the audience to get to know our characters and to get to a place where they are really rooting for them to get together. I don't expect anyone will think the sex scene is controversial. Hopefully, we're past that. This isn't a story about two gay guys. It's about two human beings who truly love each other."

Chandler Massey, who won an Emmy this year as Will, says it's been "refreshing to have a couple in soaps who haven't been thrown together too quickly. We took our time before getting to the sex and the characters and the show are better for it. But" — he adds with a laugh — "I will also say that it's about time!"

He'd get quite an argument from Will's dad Lucas (Bryan Dattilo)! It will appear that Will and Sonny are headed for sex in the Oct. 29 episode but their intimate encounter is interrupted by Lucas who is freaked by what he sees. Hey, didn't he claim to be okay with his kid being gay?

"I know a lot of dads who are like Lucas," says Massey. "They're not homophobic per se, or against gay marriage, but they're uncomfortable being in close contact with anything gay, especially when it involves their son. It's all okay in theory but they don't want to deal with the reality." Worse yet, Lucas will reveal that he thinks Sonny is a user who's looking at Will as just one more conquest.

"That's kind of hilarious considering Sonny came out [in the summer of 2011] and then went a year without even kissing anybody," notes Smith. "But, in Lucas' mind, Sonny is moving way too fast. He thinks Will needs more time before having sex." Adds Massey: "What's crazy is that Sonny is the responsible one here. He's going to school. He owns a business. If I were a parent I'd have a much bigger problem with my son getting involved with someone like Will. He's the real pain in the ass in this equation!"

The sex scene itself caused no worries. "Chandler and I were much more nervous about our first kissing scene," Smith recalls. "Our hearts were really pounding during that one but it worked out great because our characters' hearts were pounding, too. Since then Will and Sonny have done enough flirting and kissing and cuddling that, as actors, we weren't nervous about finally getting to the sex. The way we shot it is very real and passionate but tasteful. Chandler and I are comfortable with each other and it shows. We have good chemistry. We trust each other."

So where do Will and Sonny go from here? "Consummating the relationship will make them bond in a much more intimate way," says Massey. "And I guess this finally makes them an official couple to the people of Salem and it will be no big deal. Everyone is going to recognize it and accept it. Yes, even Lucas!"

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[gtru1981]

I hope we get to see Freddie Shirtless!

[Ms. Chandler Quartermaine]

Let me not....

[Soapsuds]

That was quick! Did Chandler Massey grow chest hair?? I guess the whole Gabi drama begins after their insta love making.

[Eric83]

When did Will/Gabi have sex?

[wingwalker]

Well, I guess I'm happy for fans of this couple and for DAYS, but this couple is milktoast to me. They are simply no where near Kish. Kish's love scene was hot, passionate, sexy, and had two actors who had chemistry, this is the total opposite.

Funny, in Kish's sex scene Kyle was wearing a black tank top and in Wilson's so is Sonny. Black tank tops must be lingerie for the gays of daytime.

[Gray Bunny]

In real life, it would be a jockstrap

Looks good, they've got chemistry nowadays. Much moreso than before.

[Soapsuds]

The preview is more sexy than anything they have done so far but there should have been some kind of you know drama with them and I dont mean Will's coming out party at Grandma with a Big Grin Marlena's place. We will get Gabi is pregnant with Will's baby storyline. Sonny should have found out about Will sleeping with her and then the pregnancy before they had sex. Sonny would have told Will to hit the road....dont touch me scene. Will stuck with baby and Gabi and miserable as hell and Sonny moving on as Will watches with deep pain.

[DRW50]

The joke used to be on Hollyoaks that in a scene where two men are in bed, one had to wear a tank top.

I guess this is true for all young couples on soaps now, but I don't get the point of rushing into a proposal or a marriage. I know it's supposed to be more dramatic when the truth is revealed, but I think it makes the characters seem silly.

[Gray Bunny]

I think it'll make things more dramatic for the couple if Sonny finds out about Will's sex romp with Gabi *after* the two fellas have sex. It will be more devastating for Sonny, now that they will have done the deed and he will feel truly connected to him and yada yada yada

[Cheap21]

after the show came back from hiatus

[jjjg]

They've bored down Will so much, their entire story bores me. Will and Sonny are like the same character now when it would have been so much

more interesting when Will was messed up.

[Gray Bunny]

Everything is so bland hum-drum cookie cutter wash-rince-repeat dullsville, it would've made a great unexpected soapy twist for Will to fall for former step-daddy EJ and for EJ to seduce him for blackmail or to control him or whatnot. DAYS has no balls.

[BadAddiction]

Everything about Days from storylines to cheap production values reminds me of the final days of GL and ATWT. There's death pall hanging over it. The show has forgotten that it's the 21st century, and that lack of awareness is sucking the life out it. It feels like it's on its final grasps of air.

[DRW50]

The problem I always had with that story was that Massey's idea of that type of behavior was usually just endless smirking. Every EJ/Will scene was doe eyes and smirking all day long. He's too bland of an actor for the bad boy role.

The only person I've seen him have any chemistry with has been Camila Banus.