ALL: You couldn’t imagine THEM playing THAT story

[amybrickwallace]

I believe he was fired. I still remember all the picketing around the studios after that happened.

[Soaplovers]

Clayton Norcross and Winsor Harmon both had chemistry with KKL.

I couldn't imagine Carrie Mitchum's Donna doing all the honey bear stuff with Eric, or cat fighting with Pam.

[kalbir]

From what I remember the recast happened because Bradley was going to pair Thorne/Taylor but didn't think Jeff Trachta was handsome enough to be a romantic leading man opposite Hunter Tylo.

[Wendy]

And, per Wiki, he was on the 12th season of America's Got Talent as...a singing Trump impersonator (and eliminated in the quarterfinals). Umm...yeah.

[amybrickwallace]

I think I will have nightmares tonight.

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You really can't make this stuff up.

[FrenchBug82]

I hope @Frank2803 won't mind me reposting his comment from the Unpopular Opinion in this thread: I thought this was a really good for this thread too.

 

[Faulkner]

Yorlin Madera turned into a decent-looking man, but I can’t quite see him playing the stuff David Fumero played as Cristian. I don’t think Cristian would have stuck around as a utility romantic lead without DF.

Sometimes one actor embodies the young character, but a recast is needed to mature the role. But more often than not, soaps simply cast a more conventionally attractive actor for sexual/romantic purposes, à la Rachel Miner/Rebecca Budig as Michelle on GL. DF did make the character his own beyond showing off his assets, so I don’t want to denigrate him. He’ll be 50 next year, which makes me feel old.

He still looked great on Brooklyn Nine-Nine with his wife:

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[soapfan770]

I couldn’t imagine Ashley Benson’s Abby doing any of that either. 

[amybrickwallace]

No, I couldn't see YM as a romantic lead either.