1 hour ago, Videnbas said:

I agree - in theatre, "recasts" happen all the time.

In movies and TV I think it's more difficult because the medium has a lower "suspension of disbelief" threshold (greater demands on realism) and also more focus on closeups. Nevertheless, recasts on soaps can be successful, ....

Well, soaps do have an absolute reputation for being able to do successful recasts. And it comes of necessity since they go on & on & on, having beginnings & having middles but for most of the time not having endings. So we have 15 Tom Hugheses, 3 adult Amanda Corys, and it is only in soaps where you have the first successful Julie Olsen be #4. I think soap Casting Directors are renowned because it's so important, happens so often & the audience has such high expectations. Soap fan reactions to recasts come in 2 speeds - racing stripe ready to go or don't even get out of the gate. And, there's lot of little twists & turns to it, too. Apparently Anne Heche almost came back & played Vicky & Marley again & only  scheduling conflicts kept it from happening. And Ellen Wheeler did come back & play Marley again. When someone got it in their head to fire Charles Keating in '98, Victoria tried to quit. NBC said fine that Robin Strasser was free & they were sure they could being her back. (So they say, anyway.)

2 hours ago, Tonksadora said:

it is only in soaps where you have the first successful Julie Olsen be #4. 

To be fair, I always got the impression that Charla Doherty was popular/like by viewers - she just didn't want to be there after a year. If DAYS had lasted five years and gotten released like Dark Shadows, I'm sure there are people who would've defended Julie #1 to death.

1 hour ago, te. said:

To be fair, I always got the impression that Charla Doherty was popular/like by viewers - she just didn't want to be there after a year. If DAYS had lasted five years and gotten released like Dark Shadows, I'm sure there are people who would've defended Julie #1 to death.

Okay. Well, I'm for being fair. I didn't know that about those "other Julies"! 🤣 Good to know. In the vintage shows I've seen again this year, August '66 I think, which are the first I ever saw of the show, when Julie was telling David to go & be a husband & a father for a yr or two & then divorce Susan & Susan was being really b*tchy, when little Dickie was still the size of a dill pickle inside her, *that* Julie was very good ... and the writing, oh, so good.

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