JM wants to have more importance on canvas. He wants to drive story. Nick being dark just ain't the way though. He's getting his chance to prove he can lead the show after EB. It won't work but at least he's being given the chance. 

Edited July 25, 20187 yr by ajsp35801

2 hours ago, Cat said:

"When Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) goes bad … he certainly does it with plenty of gusto!"

 

"Michael Fairman TV sat down with Joshua Morrow, who we consider one of the true MVP’s of daytime drama[...]"

 

 Did Michael Fairman run out of hyperbole he uses to describe Maurice Benard/Billy Miller/Steve Burton's acting? It's like he can't say "one of the most spell-binding actors in the business!" and so has to use the old "he tries rilly hard!" fall-back.

 

 

Soaps are dead yet MF continues to pimp the wrong actors and stories. 

5 hours ago, ajsp35801 said:

JM wants to have more importance on canvas. He wants to drive story. Nick being dark just ain't the way though. He's getting his chance to prove he can lead the show after EB. It won't work but at least he's being given the chance. 

 

JM has put 25 years into the show, so ITA he should be given those opportunities. Unfortunately, like PB was supposed to be the Abbott family patriarch after the wonderful JD was axed, it won't work. And the show will have to suffer through it.

 

I do think it's an extremely difficult transition - going from leading man to family patriarch. For all the grief he gets, EB is one of the few on soaps who has done it. JD was great as a patriarch - even though he was only 49(!) when he was cast - but not so much as a leading man. Same with JMcC - patriarch, yes, romantic lead - laughable and worse now that he looks like Bad Santa.  

 

Edited July 25, 20187 yr by edgeofnik

I like Joshua Morrow.

On 7/24/2018 at 8:29 PM, Khan said:

Joshua Morrow: I don’t care that people don’t like it.  What I do care about is that they don’t give the story a chance and they make it personal if they say, “You are incapable of handling a story of this magnitude.”

 

 

"But you ARE, Blanche!  You ARE in that chair!"

 

Look, Joshie, I don't need to adopt any wait-and-see approach to know what you are and are not capable of handling.  I've seen you through the typical, soapy, angsty teen stuff w/ Sharon, Matt and Amy; the typical, soapy, adult marriage-screw-up stuff w/ Nick's side-pieces Grace and Phyllis; and the typical, soapy, just-give-him-the-Emmy-already stuff w/ Cassie and Sage's deaths and Summer's (and later, Christian's) paternity messes.  I've seen you try (and fail) to pull your weight in stories and scenes w/ veterans, newbies and child actors alike; and always, like the tired mommy who plays your sister, you have never risen above serviceable in any of those instances.

 

You are not Eric Braeden, or Terry Lester.  You are not even John [!@#$%^&*] McCook.  You are just there, and you will always be just there, because you can't handle anything more taxing to that small, untalented mind of yours than planning the next toga party, you washed-up, overgrown frat boy.

 

Oh, and in case you're still having trouble keeping up, bruh?  Allow me to boil it down for you: Go [!@#$%^&*] yourself.

This is nonsense. Josh is exactly as good as John McCook.  I'm kidding. I thought he did well during Cassie's death at least.  I also think that he can be dark Nick right now. What difference does it make when the show is as low as it is these days?

 

More seriously, Josh, if you are reading this board, please stop. That goes for all actors.  Like I said back when FF came here and bitched at people, no good comes from talent being on these boards.  It may be public, but it's close as you can get to eavesdropping on fans. Don't do it to yourself.

 

If someone comes for an actor on twitter or Facebook, that's rude AF,  imo. On a board like this, it's just long time fans bitching among ourselves. Not that serious.

 

 

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Juliajms

1 minute ago, Juliajms said:

More seriously, Josh, if you are reading this board, please stop. That goes for all actors.  Like I said back when FF came her and bitched at people, no good comes from talent being on these boards.  It may be public, but it's close as you can get to eavesdropping on fans. Don't do it to yourself.

 

24 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

 

More seriously, Josh, if you are reading this board, please stop. That goes for all actors.  Like I said back when FF came her and bitched at people, no good comes from talent being on these boards.  It may be public, but it's close as you can get to eavesdropping on fans. Don't do it to yourself.

 

 

 

Except for Chandler Massey.  Waves at Chandler Massey!

5 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Except for Chandler Massey.  Waves at Chandler Massey!

If Y&R didn’t go to the addiction well so often, it might have made sense for Nick to follow in Nikki’s footsteps and develop a substance abuse problem. But I imagine TPTB may not have had faith JM could handle it.

He still looks good in boxer briefs...that's all I gotta say.

Just now, clubkidjeff said:

He still looks good in boxer briefs...that's all I gotta say.

He looked fat!

31 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

But I imagine TPTB may not have had faith JM could handle it.

 

But they had faith he could handle this "Dark Horse" s**t?

 

Personally, I would have pegged Victoria as being more susceptible to alcohol and/or drug addiction, given how often she was drunk in the past.  And since AH often acts (and looks) as if she's strung out on something, it wouldn't be THAT much of a stretch for her to play an addict either.

 

3 hours ago, Antoyne said:

I like Joshua Morrow.

 

And you're not alone.  And I respect everyone who DOES feel the way you do.  But I need more than likability.  I need an actor who can, well, act.  Especially now, when all the soaps are circling the proverbial drain, it's important to have actors who can make the most out of these pathetic storylines.

Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Khan

7 hours ago, Antoyne said:

I like Joshua Morrow.

I also like JM.  I don't think he should be recast. In fact, as far as I'm concerned that's blasphemy.  When someone has put in 25 years you don't recast on a whim, imo.  He is Nick Newman. I even think he can play jerk Nick Newman.  He's not going to be one of the best soap villains of our day, but I think he can play this story, on this show, at this time. For whatever that is worth.

 

Hell, a lot of people didn't like Greg Rikaart, but I thought he was one of Y&R's best bad guys when he was allowed to play it.  It was a criminal waste when they decided to redeem him. GR had the right intensity to play bad. Not everyone can do that, but almost everyone can be a jerk.

On 7/25/2018 at 7:23 PM, Soapsuds said:

He looked fat!

On 25/07/2018 at 11:47 PM, Antoyne said:

I like Joshua Morrow.

 

I do too. Do I think he's the greatest actor in the field? No. But I don't think any male actor on soaps fits that criteria, despite Michael Fairman's fawning attempts to pretend otherwise on GH. I don't even watch for the male actors anyway --it's a handful of female actors who capture my interest. Nevertheless, I enjoy what JM brings to the show. My problem is with this implausible SL, and should we really be blaming Josh Morrow for that?