tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post4620658023975979107..comments2023-11-02T09:08:08.645-04:00Comments on We Love Soaps: Bill & Susan Hayes - The We Love Soaps Interview, Part 6Kevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659344675956886092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post-80946916107797359392010-08-22T16:54:17.463-04:002010-08-22T16:54:17.463-04:00Thanks so much for this wonderful walk down memory...Thanks so much for this wonderful walk down memory lane with Bill & Susan. My entire family has watched Days since it began (I still remember Julie shoplifting that fur stole...) - my father watched it for Susan Flannery in the early days :)<br /><br />It is a shame that the writers at the show do not seem to know how to write for families anymore, I have to agree with the entire "Evil Patriarchs" comment - Days really needs to bring Dough and Julie back as a stable relationship/family role model which is entirely lacking at present - and has been since Tom's death - while Alice carried on as the Matriarch, it was Tom & Alice that kept the show stable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post-74651721499539703452010-05-20T11:53:52.652-04:002010-05-20T11:53:52.652-04:00Loved reading Bill and Susan's interview.
I th...Loved reading Bill and Susan's interview.<br />I think a lot of the time the actor is labeled 'difficult' if they question how their character is written. From what little I've heard, they voice the same things the audience was thinking. Then get punished for it. It's a no win situation. <br />Drake Hogestyn said he watched John Aniston complain to James Reilly at the Emmys how he was upset that the younger characters were besting Victor. Reilly wrote Victor into a coma after that. <br />There is an interview where Crystal Chappell was asked about being 'difficult' after she was let go from Days in 93. She said she just asked the writers what was going on with her character. God knows what Mathew Ashford did to Reilly that he was let go in 93 with Chappell and Sabatino, and was the first character killed when Reilly was rehired in 2003 during the serial killer storyline!<br />Another 'outspoken' actor, Cady McClain- poisoned pancakes anyone? Enough said!tvcat1https://www.blogger.com/profile/16590369938713790098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post-30888235378501803662010-05-20T09:45:55.106-04:002010-05-20T09:45:55.106-04:00Thank you a thousand times over for this interview...Thank you a thousand times over for this interview, Damon! I wholeheartedly agree with them - I would love for Doug and Julie to become the patriarch and matriarch of the show now. It seemed that the show was shifting it towards Shawn and Caroline for the longest time, but now that Shawn is gone, it would be nice if Doug and Julie became that fixture.Zane Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14508795707643124821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post-76526461351163572472010-05-19T15:12:33.415-04:002010-05-19T15:12:33.415-04:00Thanks for providing this wonderful interview with...Thanks for providing this wonderful interview with Bill & Susan, Damon. :) My grandmother & aunt (now both deceased) enjoyed watching their performances as <i>Doug & Julie</i> on <i>DOOL</i> during the late '70s & early '80s.<br /><br />I never would've gotten the impression that Susan was an offstage constant complainer. Just as with Larry Bryggman from <i>ATWT</i>, Susan would do what very few young actors on soaps would do today. Today's kids on soaps just flex their muscles, swing their hair, & keep their mouths shut tight! :)Greeneb2https://www.blogger.com/profile/16466719799496320519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post-83133280019454920542010-05-19T14:20:12.319-04:002010-05-19T14:20:12.319-04:00Thank you so much for this interview with my favor...Thank you so much for this interview with my favorite soap couple. They were treated very shoddily by Days in the 80s, and Susan was wasted in her 90s return. I'd give anything for them to have a real story again – as it is, I only tape Days when I know they're going to be on.<br /><br />I loved their book (and I enjoyed much of Ken Corday's book, in which he was very complimentary of Bill & Susan). Anyway, thanks again -- this is the best interview of the Hayes' I've ever read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com