3 minutes ago, Wendy said:

Huh. So I wasn't too far off, date wise. And I think you are the very first person I have come across that preferred Terry's Mason to Gordon's in terms of the recasts! (Me? Terry was a GREAT actor, but I think he was miscast as Mason. Which is odd since, on paper, Jack Abbott and Mason Capwell seemed a lot alike, but there it is!)

One of the "Stunt: Recast Reveal" video clips that I have is the Russian version of going from Terry Lester to Gordon Thompson. Dash punches Mason & he goes down. When he comes up it's Gordon instead of Terry. (Who was the one who went down) I enjoy all of these fun clips but one of my favorite things about this one is Julia being dubbed in Russian. 

4 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

I'm happy to be the first you've come across! Love me some Lester as Mason.

Cool!   

But I'll agree with him that the stories he got (Sasha in a freezer!) did suck, so I get why he decided to leave.

18 hours ago, Alan said:

On UK soaps there is at least there is a last a significant period of time between recasts.

TBF, there used to be a time when US soaps did that. DAYS was praised for its ability to do so in the 90s with people who were debatably just as good as their actor who came before.

1 hour ago, Darn said:

No he don’t, he looks considerably older.

Ted currently looks like an older version of them. A ommon mistake in the first week was people getting him confused with them. If age is why you dont think they look alike, well the new actors is older and looks it. He and the ones that play Jacob and Andrew do not look th same age

 

 

yeah to me at least, he looks like he could be their uncle and not much to confuse here

 

16 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

Well, I'm sad to hear that. But I know I am in the minority in terms of liking Ashley. But thankfully, the general consensus is that she is boring, or people feel indifferent to her. 

 

OH? Uh no now then. 

I feel for Jen Jacob because she's an undeniably good actress who has multiple examples of her doing good work. I feel like she's trying as hard as she can and is successful with anybody except Derek but because the majority of her scenes are with Derek she's being dragged down by him. 

In order to make Derek work you'd have to have someone like a younger Heather Tom or Sarah Brown who can pull something out of you be the sheer force of their talent. I don't think she's in a fair situation as long as she has to work with him.

Keith might have been a preferred choice who initially declined but changed his mind after it was clear the show was happening and looked promising. 

25 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

TBF, there used to be a time when US soaps did that. DAYS was praised for its ability to do so in the 90s with people who were debatably just as good as their actor who came before.

If you look at RKK as Sam Fowler on AW & then at the entire rest of his life, you may think, Huh? What happened? And, DAYS was so concerned about a recast Bo that they had a makeover done on RKK to make him look as much like Peter Reckell did at that moment, as possible. Then, that turned into the look RKK has worn for the whole rest of his life. 

18 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I feel for Jen Jacob because she's an undeniably good actress who has multiple examples of her doing good work. I feel like she's trying as hard as she can and is successful with anybody except Derek but because the majority of her scenes are with Derek she's being dragged down by him. 

In order to make Derek work you'd have to have someone like a younger Heather Tom or Sarah Brown who can pull something out of you be the sheer force of their talent. I don't think she's in a fair situation as long as she has to work with him.

I see it. The more comfortable she has grown in the role, it's clear she's a good actress. She even reminds me of a friend of mine with her acting. I do feel she's been lumped in with the actor who plays Derek. And even with that, I feel he's (too slow) growing into his role. In fact, he screams 'actor who is only good if he is playing psycho a la RSW on DAYS' to me. Or any actor or actress who can't play a good character because they come across as bland/boring but give them crazy/evil and they bloom. That's what my instinct tells me at least. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

If you look at RKK as Sam Fowler on AW & then at the entire rest of his life, you may think, Huh? What happened? And, DAYS was so concerned about a recast Bo that they had a makeover done on RKK to make him look as much like Peter Reckell did at that moment, as possible. Then, that turned into the look RKK has worn for the whole rest of his life. 

I was more thinking of the cases for Kate Roberts and Billie Reed where they both had periods of time off canvas between recasts. And I think Austin was the only 'sudden' recast in that period of major character recasts. But it's been a loooong time since I thought about it, but remember it discussed in SOD. I want to say it even made the BEST&WORST that year. I could be wrong.

 

I was not watching regularly during RKK taking over for Bo and Peter Reckell reclaiming the role so I cannot speak on that too much.

5 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

Now? Ted already looks like Jacob and Andre

That must be an older picture bc Keith most definitely looks the same age as the last actor

 

See? This is the first picture I've seen that is giving Ted to me. 

53 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

from Robinson on the set of Beyond the Gates at Assembly Studios

Thank you for posting his IG posts here.
Posting one of the ones you cited below:

I like the sound of Robinson's voice in this IG video.

He posted this to instagram at 10:28am EDT Friday March 21.
His casting was announced by Deadline at 7:11pm EDT Friday March 21.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHdvhn0xFTQ/

keithsings (Keith Robinson)
"Happy Friday ✨️ ". . . .#happyfriday #blessup #weekendwarrior

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Chris B said:

I wanna say as recent as a couple days ago, the actress playing Ashley has posted on instagram on set. She did post last week a post talking about reading negative things about herself online. The cast rallied in response to it. Today she posted something similar but I still don't think she's been let go but she may be concerned with how her story is being received.

He's back on Twitter today re-tweeting people asking for the show to bring him back. I guess now we know for sure he didn't leave on his own accord and this was a show-dictated move.

This makes me sad to hear. He's asking the audience to help in bringing him back. I wonder if the Twitter bunch is going to petition it? I would certainly join in to help the one and only Teddy Bear.

Although he hasn't formally commented himself, Maurice is retweeting posts from fans about his exit.

1 hour ago, Chris B said:

He's back on Twitter today re-tweeting people asking for the show to bring him back. I guess now we know for sure he didn't leave on his own accord and this was a show-dictated move.

 

1 hour ago, Liberty City said:

I think he's just re-tweeting [some] reactions, because he's also re-tweeting those that ask if he chose to leave, as well.

Yeah he's retweeting a variety of comments.  
That fits his pattern in that, during the past month he has frequently retweeted viewer comments about the show and about Ted, regardless of whatever opinions/likes/dislikes the viewers had about what the character Ted was doing.

Edited March 22Mar 22 by janea4old

15 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

I was more thinking of the cases for Kate Roberts and Billie Reed where they both had periods of time off canvas between recasts. And I think Austin was the only 'sudden' recast in that period of major character recasts. But it's been a loooong time since I thought about it, but remember it discussed in SOD. I want to say it even made the BEST&WORST that year. I could be wrong.

I believe there was sufficient time in between last Reckell & first RKK. It was 2 months. They did the makeover as I mentioned & then the recast reveal was at a fancy dress masked ball that Vivian Allamain threw & then RKK was considered one of the most successful recasts.

The problem with NO TIME in between is obvious because it's jarring. 

 

Im fine with the recast. I hate to see one so soon but it may be for the best its happening so soon. Keith IS a stronger actor so this isnt the worse decisioni

A day later, this is still the #5 trending story on Deadline. I definitely think this got more attention than the show anticipated.