http://www.daysofourlives.com/multimedia/podcasts.html

Awesome!

My love for those two is endless

http://www.daysofourlives.com/multimedia/podcasts.html

Thanks for the link How awesome was that!

I loved their attitude about the writing. I think it was MBE who mentioned that they both feel that no matter what's going on with the writing, what matter is what they bring to it and how they play the scene.

Also loved what they said about feeling the magic again when they started doing scenes together (don't remember the exact words).

Wow that was awesome!!

I loved how he said he used the uncomfortable nature of having his first scenes with everyone during those meeting scenes when everyone was in the cemetary.

Him and Mary Beth are wonderful and they seem so down to earth and honest. They seem to know the characters and no matter they are given will do whatever it takes to make it work.

I am so glad they are back .

I just listened to the pocast again and I can't believe I didn't catch this the first time through!!

The way SN talks, we may just be getting that retelling of the S&K love story that I'm so hoping for. What I really, really want is for Steve not to regain his memory too quickly so that he'll have to fall in love with Kayla all over again and we'll get to see her try to get past his walls the way we did before. Obviously the story probably won't be able to recapture that original magic but I'd love to see the more mature version of it.

Anyway, here's the way SN describes the place that Steve Johnson is in mentally/emotionally right now:

The idea was that Patch, this character, would come back and be emotionally in the same place he was in the beginning, before Patch and Kayla's relationship began. Which was, that he was resistant to any kind of love because he didn't feel worthy of it. He didn't feel that anybody this beautiful and wonderful could love him. He sort of hooked into all the pain from this childhood and the past and he just doesn't want to have anything to do with anybody really. And a lot of that humor that we spoke about is really covering all... it's just bravado, so that he doesn't have to really deal with people and get too involved.

I love that part of it. I love to be able to go back to that place where the character began. Family? Marry? No, that's not me. Kids? Forget it. I don't do that. It's not me. And I have some skeletons in my closet. I can't remember what they are but I know that they're there, and I'm ashamed. And I'm not cut out for this kind of life. This wonderful town with all these beautiful people who say they love me, that's not going to work for me.

Excuse me, but SQUEEEEEEE.

Now if the writers will just cooperate

God, I am OBSESSED with these two! Well, the four of them (characters and actors!).

God, I am OBSESSED with these two! Well, the four of them (characters and actors!).

Tell me about it *g*

I ran across a really great page of quotes from/about them the other day when I was looking for old videos. It at least makes me feel less weird for being obsessed. They really do seem to be cool people, on and off screen.

Here's a few of them. (How cute are they?)

"They have a really genuine affection for each other, almost as if they were husband and wife at work. But of course, they have spouses at home that they love very much. Their devotion to each other rubs off on their characters. They rarely spend time apart. And when Mary Beth is on vacation, Stephen just mopes around here. He's completely lost without her"

-Shelley Curtis

(Days producer and GH producer),

Soap Opera Digest,

August 22 1989

"It was when she auditioned for DAYS. Right after she said her last line she turned to me and said, "Well,that was s--t! "{laughs} and walked away...I thought she was very spunky and energetic and very pretty. I liked her a lot. I got a nice vibe from her. "

-Stephen on Mary Beth,

Soap Opera Digest March 30 1999

" 'Stephen and I are the oldest of friends', Evans gushed. 'He's always been there for me and I for him... ' "

-Mary Beth,

Soap Opera Previews March 14, 2005

"There is a very sweet tender side to him. He's a guy who loves kids and loves me, and so when I was pregnant, he'd always be rubbing my tummy and asking how I was feeling. He never made fat jokes...He came to visit me at the hospital. He is very special to me in that way"

-Mary Beth, Soap Opera Digest,

August 22 1989

"Mary Beth is the very best friend I have at the studio. I've just never had this type of good, good platonic relationship with a woman before. We both have the same outlook on life. We have the same way of working and we are both deeply committed to our families"

-Stephen, Soap Opera Digest,

August 22 1989

"When she's not at the studio I'm miserable. Who am I going to lunch with? Who will I work out with at the gym? I'm just lost without Mary Beth"

-Stephen

Soap Opera Digest,

August 22 1989

"I have a very special friendship with Stephen. He is not only a great actor,but also a wonderful person. I feel so lucky because we get to work together so much. Stephen and I literally spend all day together at the studio. We run our lines a million times, laugh, joke around, and always go out to lunch together. He's a lot sweeter and a lot nicer than Patch in real life. He's a very loving guy. He took such good care of me when I was pregnant. I'll never forget that. He'd get up and get me things all day long and was always rubbing my tummy. Stephen went through my pregnancy right along with me. He was as excited about it as I was. He even came to visit me right after I had my son. It was the sweetest thing. Stephen had a cold that day, and he wore a doctor's mask so Daniel wouldn't catch any of his germs. Stephen couldn't wait to hold Daniel. He waited for him, just as long as I did, and I could tell right away that Stephen loved my little boy very, very much"

-Mary Beth

Soap Opera Stars,

May 1988

"The show is part of my life, but its a smaller part than the rest of my life. It is my living, and I love being an actress, but my children and my family and my friends are 95% of my life. Stephen falls into that 95%. I'd rather have that 95% of friendship than that 5% of work.."

-Mary Beth,

on Stephen leaving Days

Soap Opera Update,

Oct. 8 1990

"Sometimes if one or the other or both of us were having a hard time getting to the place we needed to be emotionally for a scene, we would whisper little secrets in each other's ears, that we knew might put us in the place we needed to be. When all else failed, we would get lost in each other's eyes, or "eye" as the case was with me. "

-Stephen in Soap Opera Update

Oct 8 1990

"We trust each other as actors. We really pay attention to what each other is doing. He'll say, 'Look at me', and we'll block out all the rest of the baloney and concentrate on the scene that we're doing"

-Mary Beth, Soap Opera Digest,

August 22, 1989

"Stephen takes his job and acting very seriously. He's not one who memorizes his lines on the staircase. He's worked on it, he's thought about it - and if it's not what he thinks his character would do, he suffers over it ...He brings the standard up a couple of notches because he's so into his work in such a positive way"

-Mary Beth,

in Soap Opera Magazine

All I knew was that this guy, Jack, was married to [Mary Beth, ex-Kayla],who was nine months pregnant in real life. She was funny. We cracked jokes all the time. Then, Stephen Nichols walked in, and he was Patch, and you could sense the electricity between them. I was suddenly not in the room...Everbody else seemed to be highly aware that these two were very connected..."

-Matthew Ashford on his early

storyline with Stephen and Mary

Beth (Soap Opera Digest

April 30, 2002)

"My Favorite scene was when I was pregnant with Danny and they were trying to hide it every way possible. It was a drag because if it showed, we'd have to take it over. And then Stephen and I did that little dream of his where I was pregnant. We ad-libbed everything. We put in all these things we had talked about during my pregnancy. Singing songs. Things Michael (her husband) did and and things Stephen had done with me being pregnant. Things I said to my husband about 'no fat jokes'. We incorporated it all. In that scene, it shows how much Stephen loves me and how he cared about me while I was pregnant. It was a sweet time for both of us."

-Mary Beth

Soap Opera Update

October 8, 1990

"I loved Mary Beth's honesty and outspokenness right from the start. I remember she was testing for the part {of Kayla, Days}, under this tremendous amount of pressure, and we were doing this really intense scene. After we were done, she just walked away and said, 'That was s--t!' Most actors are so paranoid to ever admit they did something wrong, but not Mary Beth. She's brave, and she's honest. She knows when she's on and when she's off, and isn't afraid to admit it. I thought right then, this is my kind of actress, my kind of actor"

-Stephen Nichols,

Soap Opera Digest,

August 22 1989

"It brings tears to my eyes to remember how Mary Beth and I connected in our work...we are the best of friends"

-Stephen in Soap Opera Update,

Oct. 8 1990

"The thing that people like to call chemistry (a hackneyed term in my book), for Mary Beth and me was simply concentration and trust- and yes the trust was supported by our relationship off camera."

-Stephen in Soap Opera Update

October 8, 1990

"Aside from my wife and daughters, Mary Beth has without a doubt, the most beautiful eyes. They're not only expressive, they're soulful. She gives you so much through them"

-Stephen Nichols,

Soap Opera Digest,

April 1997

"The sexiest thing about Stephen is his eyes. Even with one eye hidden behind a patch, he has more expression than most

actors"

-Mary Beth Evans,

Soap Opera Digest,

November 1, 1988

"Stephen and I just did a photo shoot for Soap Opera Digest and I swear, we were like the old married couple (laughs). We were sitting on the couch, all cozied up, he was reading something, I was doing something. It's like we don't even have to talk to each other. It cracked me up! We've known each other for such a long time and we're so comfortable with each other. So I'm hoping that we work together again, because I always have such a great time!"

Mary Beth Evans

Soap Opera Digest Online

www.soapoperadigest.com

(Supercouples article /week of

April 27, 2004)

"I went up to Mary Beth and told her, 'I have to admit, I'm a little starstruck. You and Patch were my favorite soap couple--ever!' It was great meeting her, and I got to take pictures with her.' When told that Nichols had also been in the building, Brandt was bummed. 'No way! I could have had a picture with both of them? Now that would have really

been cool!'"

-Kyle Brandt (Phillip Kiriakis, Days)

In Soap Opera Weekly-6/24/03

(all from nicholsevansfans.com)

I would love for them to try to recapture the magic. It would be so awesome if they could fall in love again.

OMG, GBB! Amazing quotes. Thanks for these. I think I them even more than I did before (if that's possible).

My fave: "The thing that people like to call chemistry (a hackneyed term in my book), for Mary Beth and me was simply concentration and trust- and yes the trust was supported by our relationship off camera."

Matthew Ashford's quote is also mind-blowing.

Wow, Austin Peck also had a really good podcast!

Matthew Ashford's quote is also mind-blowing.

I loved that one!

And the one about Stephen moping around without Mary Beth. Just too cute

I loved that one!

And the one about Stephen moping around without Mary Beth. Just too cute

LOL, "Who am I going to lunch with?"

Missed this one the first time around: "When all else failed, we would get lost in each other's eyes, or "eye" as the case was with me." SN's sense of visual perspective, distance and coordination must be shot to pieces, though, with all that patch-wearing.

These two are the cutest people ever! I love them.