https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/the-young-and-the-restless-exclusive-matt-clark-can-absolutely-be-redeemed-head-writer-says/
Quoting a few excerpts from JG:
“This is a way of kind of recreating and reinventing the character,” Griffith notes, “through a total loss of memory of everything that he’s done and then having to learn what he’s done and [exploring] how can that impact him going forward.”
it is possible for Matt to turn over a new leaf. “Of course he can,” Griffith says. “Absolutely — if he not only shows remorse but atones for his sins, then sure, yes, there is redemption. But the key is atoning; the key is action.”
(re: Sharon) “I think that she’s going to be the holdout for a long time of A), ‘I don’t believe he’s telling the truth, I think this is all a ruse, and B), ‘Even if he is telling the truth, he’s a monster.'”
“He has lost all memory, but as his memories slowly come back to him, we’ll see him shocked by what he has done,” he reveals. And getting his memories back won’t necessarily get in the way of the redemption arc the show is unfurling. “If he can remember but if he doesn’t fall back into that person — if he can remember but atone — then he absolutely has a future [on the canvas],” Griffith declares.
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