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DAYS: LATE UPDATE: Lamon Archey & Sal Stowers off-contract, listed as recurring in credits


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I agree with all the commenters who say we should learn to stop overthinking the recurring thing.
In the current world it can be good for both parties: leaving actors the flexibility to take on other projects while having the soap as a steady paycheck on one hand while the show gets to keep a lot of people around who may have decided to leave altogether when the choice was binary between tempting their fate vs staying.
Considering the rate of failure out there, giving them enough of a leeway to try while still keeping them one foot in is a smart strategy that is only a small gamble; most of them will never find the same kind of steady work out there that a soap provides but they won't feel trapped anymore.
And of course not being forced to write some actors' guarantee when they are on the backburner helps save money and keep the show around. Long enough for, as seen with MA and MM, put them back on contract when actual story is beckoning.
I am not saying this is what is going here: but as many said, on other soaps some heavily-used actors are on recurring. With the investment they put in Jackee, there is no way either of these two are being written out.

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100%. And let's be real here, both Lani and Eli are supporting to other people's storylines right now, but not to the point where it would be impossible to write around them if they're not available on certain days. They're not driving any storyline on their own at the moment.

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