About getting meaty flashbacks for the Reva movie, I wouldn't count on them. I may be wrong, but I believe the new production model prevents them from using footage from before the new model began. Along with no more scenes set at night and characters no longer having scenes outside of the city limits of Springfield, the inability to use flashbacks is just one of the new style's many limitations.
Thanks for giving me the name of the actor playing Donna's newly introduced son. They pull a lot of crap on soaps, but what where they smoking when they cast an actor so old to play the son of a woman so young. IMDb reports two different DOBs for the actor, who would be too old whether he's 27 or 31. When he announced he was Donna's son, I kept waiting for her to talk about that time she got pregnant in grammar school.
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Thats actually a trend on B&B if you look at the most of the cast:
(All of these ages are from IMDB)
Like you already mentioned, Jennifer Gareis (37) isn't old enough to have a son the same age as Texas Battle (whether he's 27 or 31)
Susan Flannery (68) and John McCook (63) aren't old enough to have son the age of Ronn Moss (56)
Katherine Kelly Lang (46) is barely old enough to have children the ages of Ashley Jones (31) and Kyle Lowder (27)
Lesley-Anne Down (54) is only 6 years older than her TV son Jack Wagner (48).
I guess the casting department at B&B really depends on hiring actors who can look/play younger.
It actually reminds me a story that Jane Elliot told in an interview once about how weird it was for her when she had to play Wally Kurth's mother on GH, after they had played lovers on DAYS.
Because Jackie's not on much, I hadn't thought about it, but Lesley-Anne Down as Jack Wagner's mother is absolutely ridiculous. Most of the soaps have at least a few screwy examples of this, though. DAYS is pretty bad with Lexie and Celeste. Tanya Boyd is 57 to Renee Jones's 49.
Originally posted by EmmyLoser: Because Jackie's not on much, I hadn't thought about it, but Lesley-Anne Down as Jack Wagner's mother is absolutely ridiculous. Most of the soaps have at least a few screwy examples of this, though. DAYS is pretty bad with Lexie and Celeste. Tanya Boyd is 57 to Renee Jones's 49.
Renee Jones is 49???? WOW!!! She looks awesome- and naturally so. Good for her, we should all be so lucky!
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Really? I thought Tom blew both Gareis (hands down) and KKL to an extent off the screen during this storyline. Her May 6 episode is one of my soap highlights of the year thus far...raw, gut-wrenching, tremendously acted and honest/natural performance.
Tom's had some great moments during this storyline, but KKL really has done some great work here as well. The day Nelson mentioned when she talked about the church's stance on suicide was great, but I really loved the day before when she wakes up with Ridge and talks about having to plan Storm's memorial. It was quiet and subtle, but so communicative and effective. So much of her relationship with Storm and her feelings about it are in those scenes. It was excellent work. Gareis has not been a major player in this storyline, so of course I wouldn't expect her to be putting out anything anywhere near as strong as what Tom's been doing. Her scream when they found Storm's body was phenomenal, though, and really enhanced the episode, for me.
Am I the only one excited about Josh Ryan Evans's "return" to PASSIONS? I hope the show does this right, but the best days of PASSIONS were when Evans was on; when he died, the show died with him. (No matter how good Lindsay Hartley, Ben Masters and Juliet Mills rose above the material).
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