Do you feel starring on “General Hospital” prepared you in any way for “The Young and the Restless”?
In some ways, for sure. That was my first experience doing soaps, and it was interesting. The biggest difference is how fast they shoot. “General Hospital,” “The Young and the Restless,” all of these, they have a certain timing, because it’s every day. There’s new episodes every day versus weekly.
Getting a sense of the rhythm was really important [to] understand. With primetime, you have multiple takes, so you can warm up as an actor. You can warm up into it. For this, you have to come in with good ideas [and] be prepared with your lines.
Of course, there’s a myth that it’s one take only. They would like it to be one take, [but] if you mess up, you’re definitely allowed to have multiple takes. It’s not that crazy, but they do move fast. With “General Hospital,” it taught me that rhythm, but it was a much smaller role. With “The Young and the Restless,” it’s a whole new show, a whole new perspective with a whole new character that I’m able to go much deeper with.
I read that you were on “The Young and the Restless” back in 2011, too.
Okay, that’s a funny story. I actually have no idea what really happened. [Laughs] You know when you don’t have any job experience? You’re like, “I’m going to fill out a couple job experiences.” There is a story there.
I came to LA for a semester in college when I was very young, like 18, 19. Duke has a program with USC, and I was interested in LA. I wanted to see it. It was my time to have my artistic semester, so I came out here to see how LA was. I was so young [and] literally did not know what was going on, and I was like, “Oh, an extra role at …” I honestly can’t remember. I think it was at CBS TV City. It could have been “The Bold and the Beautiful.” It could have been “The Young and the Restless.” But I did one day of extra work. And then, as a teenager, I was like, “Well, I’m going to put that on my resume on IMDb.”
I was in there for not even a millisecond, so they don’t know if I’m in it, but I think I was in it for a hot second, maybe on “The Young and the Restless.”
