Members Soapsuds Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Vincent Irrizary mentioned it in the reunion with Alan and Judi Evans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JellicleCat Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Thomas I can agree with, but Sheila? Please register in order to view this content How do you think that Sheila Carter's character was assassinated? How do you even perform character assassination on a psychopath? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Would B&B's Stephanie fall in this category? Bill Bell wrote her as a Jennifer/Katherine/Vanessa hybrid and Bradley Bell wrote her as a female Victor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Really? Was his take on the transformation critical? Did Judi Evans talk much about Grant Aleksander? I'll never forget that long-ago interview she did for Soap Opera Digest when she acknowledged how disgusting his behavior towards her was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 (edited) He said Beth was a totally different character under Chamberlain and unrecognizable. Vincent and Judi were asked to describe Grant and both had the same answer...I think they said intense. Judi had more glowing love for John Bolger who was the recast Phillip. Edited October 24, 2020 by Soapsuds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MinnaH Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Last I checked she had gone from poisoning and shooting people to refilling water glasses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 I agree with VI's assessment of Nu Beth. And describing GA as "intense" does not say a great deal, but can be interpreted in a few different ways. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Vincent said it took him a while to realize Chamberlain was playing Beth because the character had changed so much. Michael OLeary was described as funny by both and Vincent said Michael was also cheap too which led to Judi bursting in laughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 LOL! Alan must have had a stroke hearing Vincent saying that. He seems to loathe actors saying anything even remotely controversial or "negative." I haven't been watching most of the interviewers because I find Alan to be an unbearably awful host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 I think when she left B&B the first time, those first two returns ruined her. Turning her into a murderer was a mistake. It was too dark. I think B&B did a good job of redeeming her with edge and she was a viable character could’ve come and gone to stir things up, but they went to far. Then Y&R demolished her with their horrible attempts in the 00s. I will say her most recent B&B stint did a good job of redeeming her, but they didn’t do anything useful with her. Where were her daughters? A love interest? She just languished the entire year. It was *such* a good return too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted October 24, 2020 Members Share Posted October 24, 2020 Actually Alan had no choice but to laugh too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 25, 2020 Author Members Share Posted October 25, 2020 How was Chamberlain received during her initial ‘89-‘91 run? I think one of the lowest moments for Beth was her having sex with Jeffrey O’Neill in a Japanese restaurant(!) before the show just kind of stopped writing for Beth for a couple years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted October 25, 2020 Members Share Posted October 25, 2020 All I remember was viewers resisting her, and complaining that she was not the "real" Beth. UGH! Jeffrey, another useless character who never should have received so much airtime on the show. Between the mob, San Cristocrap, and all the idiotic Reva stories, the show was doomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members prefab1 Posted October 25, 2020 Members Share Posted October 25, 2020 Unpopular opinion here, but I liked Beth's transformation and found it totally explicable, given all the trauma the character had been through (including sexual abuse and kidnapping). Of course, it goes against the genre conventions of soaps, where the ingenue heroine endures this kind of trauma every few months but remains the same "sweet" person throughout (rather than becoming jaded and defensive like any real person would be). I think Chamberlain played her character's brittleness and coldness as a psychological defense mechanism, the result of a woman who had been deeply hurt too many times and refused to get hurt again. And to me it made perfect sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted October 25, 2020 Members Share Posted October 25, 2020 Speaking of final years, with Guiding Light, who was responsible for Ross's death? Rick, Phillip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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