While Rey Rosales’ death came as a shock to Sharon on “The Young and the Restless,” it also gave actress Sharon Case some emotional material to play, especially when Sharon’s ex-husband, Nick Newman, had to break the news to her that Rey was killed (via Soaps.com). Sharon seemed to already know that she would never see her husband alive again and Case described her character’s feelings to Michael Fairman TV.
“Something struck her as soon as Rey didn’t return, and Chelsea came in and said, ‘Where’s Rey? He hasn’t returned my calls.’ For Sharon, it was that, ‘Oh my, God’ moment,” Case said, describing how it became more clear to Sharon that something had gone terribly wrong. “That continued to progress throughout the episode, and she continued to become more disheveled emotionally and physically…until finally Nick showed up…I think her heart dropped, and she went into shock right away when he walked it.”
Case also did several takes of Nick telling Sharon what happened, something not often done on daytime. “We did tape the scene several times, so I had several shots at it…During taping, I think I got a little more dramatic each time we performed the scene. I remember in the final take, my whole face was puffy from crying, and my eyes were red by then, and that one was the most dramatic take.”
