The online buzz is that 2X Emmy winner Tom Pelphery is being courted by the alphabet network to play Sonny & Olivia's son resulting from a one night stand they had while Sonny was w/Kate.
Personally I think this would work, b/c I am a fan of Pelphrey, and he and Maurice Benard as father and son would actually make me watch a Sonny scene. Hell maybe this will make me start to watch GH again if this were to happen.
Discuss.
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Is anyone else frightened by the prospect of listening to Maurice Benard and Tom Pelphrey scream at each other for an hour every day?
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Yeah, I've never been a fan of Pelphrey's because every time I've seen him (admittedly, I'm not a regular watcher of GL), he's so far over the top that I can't possibly get invested in the scenes.
Although GH is so great at writing compelling and interesting stories for the big-name actors they lure in, I'm sure they can make it work.
Originally posted by 742: Is anyone else frightened by the prospect of listening to Maurice Benard and Tom Pelphrey scream at each other for an hour every day?
I wouldn't want him to go on the mafia show and have everyone hate him.
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I would not be intrested in this at all, as it is i am already sick of anything involving Sonny. As for Pelphrey i agree that anytime i've seen him he's been pretty over the top. I just cannot imagine him and Megan Ward in a scene together he'll just chew her up and i'm afraid putting him in a scene with with Laura Wright would be too much scene chewing.
Nancy Lee Grahn and Kelly Monaco seem like the only two he might have any chemistry with at all.
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He and Laura Wright actually play very well off each other (or they did at GL)it just might be a bit weird not to see them as Cassie and Jonathan. I dread the thought of him and Bernard, ditto for him and Ward. I could see them making him the counterpart to Johnny though. I would be curious to see him and Barash opposite each other. It could be REALLY bad or REALLY good.
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I don't get why this would be considered a "scare tactic" to get Steve Burton to re-up. What does he care if they sign Pelphrey? If Burton really wants to leave, then he's going to, regardless if Pelphrey joins or doesn't. Especially if he really is making 6 figures outside of GH with the Mona Vie business.
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Maybe, GH is trying to show Burton that they don't NEED him that desperately if they get Pelphrey, so Burton doesn't have that big an advantage in the negotiations. I do like TP, although, I'll admit he does overact.
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But its not like Pelphrey would be coming in as a recast Jason, or that he and Burton even have the same acting style. If I were Burton, I wouldn't feel threatened or pressured into anything just because Tom Pelphrey may or not be coming on.
Although the show has yet to confirm, we hear that Emmy winner Tom Pelphrey (ex-Jonathan, Guiding Light) is thisclose to signing on to play Sonny and Olivia's secret son without so much as a screen test. No doubt, the mobster's portrayer is thrilled, as he was a fan of Pelphrey's long before the possibility of having him portray his ever arose. "He's really great - very natural and believable," Maurice Benard marveled to us in 2006 when discussing other daytimers he admires. "He's such an honest actor."
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HMMMMMMMM. Benard and Pelphrey together is one delicious thought. I agree these two would eat up the screen; he's hoping there is a STRONG director to rein these two in.
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Originally posted by almakay: If Steve Burton left, it would be a huge loss to GH.
I think Burton is an excellent actor, but losing him wouldn't hurt the show that much, I don't think. The character of Jason has been pretty stagnant since his breakup with Sam. He's on screen about every day, but when was the last time he had something meaningful to do?
My idea: If Burton wants to take a long break, give him a year off. Jason can be presumed dead in whatever disaster plagues Port Charles that week. When Burton is ready to return, so will Jason, and it will be explained that he stayed away because he got his memories back and couldn't reconcile his two lives. It would be great, character-driven material for the actors, not just Burton, but Kelly Monaco, Rebecca Herbst, Laura Wright, Maurice Benard, and Leslie Charleson (if they bother to write for her).
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Originally posted by almakay: If Steve Burton left, it would be a huge loss to GH.
I think Burton is an excellent actor, but losing him wouldn't hurt the show that much, I don't think. The character of Jason has been pretty stagnant since his breakup with Sam. He's on screen about every day, but when was the last time he had something meaningful to do?
My idea: If Burton wants to take a long break, give him a year off. Jason can be presumed dead in whatever disaster plagues Port Charles that week. When Burton is ready to return, so will Jason, and it will be explained that he stayed away because he got his memories back and couldn't reconcile his two lives. It would be great, character-driven material for the actors, not just Burton, but Kelly Monaco, Rebecca Herbst, Laura Wright, Maurice Benard, and Leslie Charleson (if they bother to write for her).
Thats a great idea and Burton would probably be up for it tto since he's only saying he needs "a long break", not "I want to leave this show forever".
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