'Do I know you?': Soaps’ strangest recasts!

[dragonflies]

http://community.ew.com/2014/07/01/soaps-strangest-recasts/

[titan1978]

I did not watch AW and I'm curious about tge Donna Love story. I've never heard about Vicki and Marley having a possible third sibling who was a boy. Who was this supposed to be? Did they really just drop it due to the age of the recast?

[Soapsuds]

There have been a LOT of strange bad recasts. KD as Eve is one of them.

[robbwolff]

Scott LaSalle was slated to be the child.

[cassadine1991]

How is it strange? Is it the age difference, the height difference or is it her Southern accent?

[Soapsuds]

all of the above actually

The worst in my book is Susan Batten as Connor. I will never forget that dumb ass move by Behr.

[quartermainefan]

Wow I can't believe it is nine years since DOOL and Stan.

One weird recast was Y&R how Shemar Moore, blessed with stunning looks, zero percent fat and muscles to match, was replaced with a guy who sort of looked a little like a fat slob.

[JellicleCat]

"It’s a right of passage for any soap opera fan."

Seriously?!

How about proofreading for an author?

Last I checked it was called a rite of passage.

[Cheap21]

I loved that Sami was recast with a man!

[titan1978]

Thanks! I'm off to YouTube now!

[RavenWhitney]

The replacements for Mauve McGuire/Nicole Travis on EON were absurd. Horrible choices. I think ABC forced them to recast with younger, not able to act, performers.

Of course, KD as Blaire was a royal WTF since the original was Eurasian.

Josh Taylor as Roman shows that Corday will hire his friends no matter WTF.

[cuzIsaySo]

Billy warlock taking over for Sean Kanan rates number one for me.

And i would add Lyda karennin #2. J Robin Miller taking over jessica Ferrarone still makes no sense to me after all those years.

If we discuss strange circumstances that led to a recast I remember the hooplah when Jensen Buchanan joined GH as Melissa Bedford but due to contract issue she had to be recast soon after JB started.

[NothinButAttitude]

This one takes the cake for me when they could've easily cast Real Andrews, Aaron D. Spears (who is being wasted on B&B as Justin), or Terrell Tilford, who they now have playing Leslie's hubby. Eddie Winslow playing Malcolm was a travesty. He lacked SM's Malcolm fire, spunk, charisma, and natural suaveness. So painful ... So painful.

[BKuzak]

KD as Blair is another one!

Remember oltl Blair started out as a asian beuty with the back story that her mother was raped by an asian nurse while she was in an institution. then she went away for a few months and came back as an american woman who occasoinally went into a southern accent.

[Gray Bunny]

Brian Gaskill briefly playing Reva & Billy's son Dylan on GL was a pretty big WTF to me.