Members Lucid Posted February 19, 2006 Members Share Posted February 19, 2006 ATWT is seeking an African-American actress in her mid-20's to play "Bonnie" a beautiful, smart and determined young woman who always goes after what she wants. The role is a 3 year contract. In other casting newws, the soap is also searching for an African-American man in the same age range to play Blaine, an ambitious middle-class kid with loads of charm and good looks. source: http://www.matiemusings.com/smf/index.php?board=3.0 WTF? Bonnie?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteveFrame Posted February 19, 2006 Members Share Posted February 19, 2006 Is this Jess and Duncan's daughter Bonnie coming back again? I really liked the last Bonnie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Actor87 Posted February 20, 2006 Members Share Posted February 20, 2006 Napiera Danielle NAILED the spoiled, prissy bratty role of "Bonnie". I wish they'd bring her back. Most of the time when they do casting calls, though, they change the character's name, which gets me to thinking if this casting call for "Bonnie" is really Bonnie...and why isn't Isaac with her? Or is this "Blaine" character supposed to be Isaac? Or is it Curtis? I just sneaked a peak at the audition scrips they're using. The one for Blaine is an old scene with Alison and Aaron right before Alison was set to marry Chris...but instead of Aaron's name, they have Blaine's. The script for Bonnie is a more recent scene between Dusty and Jennifer. Again..instead of Jennifer's name, it's Bonnie's. Link to the scripts: (you have to register to view, though) http://www.jennifer-landon.com/index.php?o...=34.msg82#msg82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted February 20, 2006 Members Share Posted February 20, 2006 I really liked the last Bonnie (and if we're talking about Issac too, I liked Paul Taylor). ND was a nice fit in the role. ATWT has made alot of questionable casting calls/additions recently to the cast like Meg, Maddie, or that BJ character but all (except Nick) have really turned out to be good decisions. I have no doubts about this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Actor87 Posted February 20, 2006 Members Share Posted February 20, 2006 Ryan, Anything you can tell us about this? I know you have your "sources". Figured you might know something about this..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted February 20, 2006 Members Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hopefully it is Bonnie (who I never saw originally) so we can get Jess back on screen. I don't want anymore newbies, I really hope they're revamping this family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alan Posted February 20, 2006 Members Share Posted February 20, 2006 I also hope this means Jessica and Ben will be getting some airtime. I hated Bonnie at first but ND grew into the role quite well. ATWT had a good African-American presence up until the storyline with Marshall's daughter and the "was it rape?" ordeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpiritualJunkie Posted February 20, 2006 Members Share Posted February 20, 2006 If they can write a good story for Jessica/Ben/Bonnie, then I say go for it...recast Bonnie but they have never really given these characters good stories. I hate it when shows put casting calls out to add ethnic diversity to their shows but end up hiring crappy actors or writing crappy stories...it seems more like some type of promotion to say, "Hey, the stories aren't great...but at least we're multicultural!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 I'm pretty sure the actor who plays Ben was fired, so whatever storyline they decide to do he probably won't be included. He's one of their best male actors, but they don't seem to care for him. ATWT needs really strong male actors, he could've fit the bill, but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpiritualJunkie Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 Whoa..really?? I kinda forgot about Ben but sounds like you're right...I don't recall seeing him in the last few months. I never really cared for the character (probably because they didn't write him that well) but they should at least have given him a departing scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Actor87 Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 He was dropped to recurring in October of 2005. Article: http://www.soapcentral.com/atwt/news/2005/1031-parros.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drew Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 I really dislike how ATWT never even bothers to go after the original actors and just recasts on the spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shakur Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 Ben was dropped to recurring. I had hoped that they would bring him back as Barbara's neurosurgeon when she was in the hospital. Instead, they got a day player who was also an African-American neurosurgeon. I don't know why they haven't been using Jessica. I wonder if JP has any plans for her, or if the actress is just busy with Law and Order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 Tunie is now on contract with SVU, so yeah she's much more busy now. Plus I remember at one point she was doing a Broadway show. Hopefully they can get a storyline on ATWT for her sometime. I don't want her to be dropped to recurring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Actor87 Posted February 21, 2006 Members Share Posted February 21, 2006 In my ATWT fan fic (the link is in my signature) I have a really good story coming up for Ben/Jess. I've always loved them. Chris, who are the girls in your banner? I could swear the middle one is Hilary Duff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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