Nora? Marty? Luna? Who else came on during that time period?
I don't know what to make of this. I'm sad to see Patricia Mauceri go because she always brought a lot of warmth to her scenes as Carlotta. But at the same time, Carlotta's always been such a peripheral character. I don't know what makes her think she's important enough to TPTB that she can object to a storyline and ask for a rewrite.
To me it doesn't matter if she was objecting because the storyline went against her personal beliefs or because she thought it was out of character for Carlotta to be so supportive of a homosexual couple. Either way, she should have kept her mouth shut and been happy that she was finally getting some screentime.
About her replacement, is that a current picture? If it is, she looks like she should be playing David Fumero's love interest, not his mother!
Again, what makes her think she's important enough to the show that she can demand a rewrite.
In the immortal words of Beyonce:
You must not know 'bout me You must not know 'bout me I can have another you in a minute... Don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable
This floors me, Patricia being the only (?) actress to play Carlotta? As someone else said, she's fine when her boys are sleeping around, accused of murder, have babies out of wedlock, but just for the possibility that Christian is gay, she FREAKS??
It's really hard to believe that people still have that bias. As a Latino, with a devout Catholic mother, I KNOW that women of a 'certain age' can maintain their faith and support their gay son.
See ya Patricia. Bring on the new Carlotta!!!
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A source tells soapcentral.com that there's more to Mauceri's ouster than just a bit part in a gay storyline. Mauceri has reportedly been unhappy for more than a year.
"Patricia has been bitter ever since they changed the name of the Vega diner to the Bon Jour Café," the source says. "She felt like it insulted Carlotta's history with the show and even encouraged fans to write in to protest the name change."
The source explains that Mauceri does not have a personal problem with homosexuality, but rather that the actress doesn't believe that her character would respond the way she's being written.
Another source goes one step further, hinting that show execs knew that portraying Carlotta as "gay friendly" would push Mauceri's buttons. Ultimately, that may have been exactly what the show wanted.
"There was a lot of surprise among some of the [executives] by how much play the Chris Engen situation got in the press," the show snitch continues. "For a few weeks everyone was talking about The Young and the Restless. There are whispers that forcing Mauceri's hand may have been a way [for One Life to Live] to get some buzz of its own."
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That's possible but it sounds a little far-fetched. That's a lot of trouble to go to and for what, to recast a character who only appears once every 6 months?
See but to get an actress of Santiago's caliber, I think they plan on having Carlotta around more than they have been. Maybe rekindle the Clint/Carlotta romance from 15 years ago?
I'll miss Mauceri and I do honestly think that she was just complaining that Carlotta would not accept the gay thing. For being a New York actress in movies, tv, and theater, if she had a problem with homosexuality it would reared its ugly head much earlier.
Originally posted by GloFish: …She [One Life to Live's Patricia Mauceri] was asked to play a small role in a gay storyline, not do a lesbian threesome with Robin Strasser and Erika Slezak. …
Now there's a spike in the ratings of a certain demographic!
By the way: The two links to Daytime Confidential prompted warnings to me about spyware. (I use Trend Micro PC-cillan Internet Security, and I closed the window immediately,)
I have to say I hate articles with hearsay because we have zero idea of what is truly being said and done.
I mean they rarely use the actress on show anymore ( Antonio is gone now) and for all we know she asked for a more centered story line and they are using this root to throw her out and replace her with cheaper actress.
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Originally posted by syrus80: A source tells soapcentral.com that there's more to Mauceri's ouster than just a bit part in a gay storyline. Mauceri has reportedly been unhappy for more than a year.
"Patricia has been bitter ever since they changed the name of the Vega diner to the Bon Jour Café," the source says. "She felt like it insulted Carlotta's history with the show and even encouraged fans to write in to protest the name change."
The source explains that Mauceri does not have a personal problem with homosexuality, but rather that the actress doesn't believe that her character would respond the way she's being written.
Another source goes one step further, hinting that show execs knew that portraying Carlotta as "gay friendly" would push Mauceri's buttons. Ultimately, that may have been exactly what the show wanted.
"There was a lot of surprise among some of the [executives] by how much play the Chris Engen situation got in the press," the show snitch continues. "For a few weeks everyone was talking about The Young and the Restless. There are whispers that forcing Mauceri's hand may have been a way [for One Life to Live] to get some buzz of its own."
Interesting and completely plausible. The Engen sich generated a lot of online buzz, so OLTL might want to replicate that.
This is a real shame. How much actor feedback is too much when they are protesting their character's (perceived) out of character actions? She couldn't have thought that demanding rewrites would end well, though, no matter what the reason was.
Mauceri Claims She Was Fired From OLTL Over "Religious Beliefs", Exploring Legal Options Against ABC Submitted by Jamey Giddens on September 4, 2009 - 6:56pm
Well, at least now I know why Patricia Mauceri couldn't be reached for comment regarding her exit from One Life to Live. She was waiting for a bigger fish! Enter cable whale FOX News. Mauceri spoke out to the "fair and balanced" cabler's website about her dismissal from OLTL after refusing to play out her storyline as written. As I originally reported, Mauceri objected to her then-character Carlotta being portrayed as a gay-friendly Latina mother, resulting in the soap having to do an emergency recast with Saundra Santiago.
"I did not object to being in a gay storyline. I objected to speaking the truth of what that person, how that person would live and breathe and act in that storyline," she said. "And this goes against everything I am, my belief system, and what I know the character's belief system is aligned to."
Now, I admit, quite readily, that it's been some time since I was in Sunday School, but doesn't Christianity frown upon adultery? Mauceri as Carlotta played out an extramarital affair with Clint Buchanan on the soap. The bible also frowns up lying. How, preytell did Mauceri wrestle with the story twist that revealed Carlotta lied about Antonio's parentage his entire life? Also, I could be wrong, but I think I've spied Mama Vega in polyester a time or three. Doesn't the Good Book say something about not wearing any man-made fabrics? Then there was that steamy, unmarried tryst with RJ. Oh well, let the blogger who is without sin, cast the first stone! Thanks drsbroadway for the tip!
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I expect all the liberal gays to go nuts but good for her. Gotta love liberals always attacking Fox when its only network that shows both sides and that riles the other side who can't listen to opposing views cause they live in closet world.
I would never see Carlotta being pro gay when she has always been shown to be a ultra Catholic character. It would be just as bad if they showed her supporting abortion. I feel the writer of OLTL was doing so with political bias of course.
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What the FOX News Network has to do with this I have no idea, but if you believe it's really "fair and balanced," I've got a bridge to sell you.
As for Mauceri, she was not discriminated against for her religious beliefs. She was let go for refusing to play a storyline as written. As Jamey Giddens wrote, Mauceri had no objections to playing Carlotta when she was committing adultery. She had no objections to Carlotta continuing to love, support, and accept both of her sons, who have been divorced and had sex out of wedlock. But for some reason she can't accept that Carlotta would love and embrace a gay son? Now her Catholicism is under fire? Has she even seen this show? If she objected to content on strictly religious grounds she would never have been able to play a single episode of a soap opera.
But when it has to do with homosexuality, suddenly it's political? Suddenly the religious conservatives are being forced out? As if accepting people for who they are is some kind of insidious left-wing agenda! To think that Carlotta could never be accepting of a gay son because she is a Catholic Latina is to hold a very limited view of Catholics and Hispanics. Virtually all characters on soaps are shown as Christian (baptisms, prayer, weddings presided over by priests are de rigueur in daytime). Why is it acceptable for them to be accepting of homosexuals but not Carlotta?
An actor can object to a role on whatever grounds they choose, but it is not the writer's job to change storylines according to the religious beliefs of the actor. She objected to the scenes, refused to play them, so they hired someone else to do it. She was not fired for being a Catholic. She was fired for not doing her job. She was not on contract, so she was well within her rights to refuse to play those scenes, and the show was well within its rights to replace her. All this disingenuous conservatives-as-victims posturing hopes to co-opt a very simple issue and turn it into a platform for reactionary political rhetoric. She didn't want to do it, so they hired someone who would.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert, from the introduction to "Awake in the Dark" (2006)
Originally posted by 742: What the FOX News Network has to do with this I have no idea, but if you believe it's really "fair and balanced," I've got a bridge to sell you.
As for Mauceri, she was not discriminated against for her religious beliefs. She was let go for refusing to play a storyline as written. As Jamey Giddens wrote, Mauceri had no objections to playing Carlotta when she was committing adultery. She had no objections to Carlotta continuing to love, support, and accept both of her sons, who have been divorced and had sex out of wedlock. But for some reason she can't accept that Carlotta would love and embrace a gay son? Now her Catholicism is under fire? Has she even seen this show? If she objected to content on strictly religious grounds she would never have been able to play a single episode of a soap opera.
But when it has to do with homosexuality, suddenly it's political? Suddenly the religious conservatives are being forced out? As if accepting people for who they are is some kind of insidious left-wing agenda! To think that Carlotta could never be accepting of a gay son because she is a Catholic Latina is to hold a very limited view of Catholics and Hispanics. Virtually all characters on soaps are shown as Christian (baptisms, prayer, weddings presided over by priests are de rigueur in daytime). Why is it acceptable for them to be accepting of homosexuals but not Carlotta?
An actor can object to a role on whatever grounds they choose, but it is not the writer's job to change storylines according to the religious beliefs of the actor. She objected to the scenes, refused to play them, so they hired someone else to do it. She was not fired for being a Catholic. She was fired for not doing her job. She was not on contract, so she was well within her rights to refuse to play those scenes, and the show was well within its rights to replace her. All this disingenuous conservatives-as-victims posturing hopes to co-opt a very simple issue and turn it into a platform for reactionary political rhetoric. She didn't want to do it, so they hired someone who would.
Finally something we agree on! She is totally in the wrong here and to claim that she was fired about of her religion is crazy! She was fired because she said no to a beautiful story that needs to be told on daytime!
My website and blog are taking a little break, since Geocities is closing and I now have to upload everything to a new site, so I am working on a new design and it is gonna take me a while, hoping to get it up by Oscar Season.
At least Engen had the good sense to go away and keep his mouth shut. I find pick and choose religion so fascinating. Is there a playbook that tells believers what beliefs are optional and which must be adhered to at all costs? Last time I checked, the ten commandments did not list, "Thou shall not play the role of a Catholic mother who supports gays and lesbians" as one of the biggies. As has been pointed out, she had no qualms about playing out storylines which would contradicted tenets of her own faith. If her faith is so strong, why would she want to continue employment on a show produced and written by gay men? Is it okay to take money from gay men, but it's an abomination to play an insignificant scene where Carlotta accepts Cristian as a gay man? Let's not forget I THINK I DO which had gay men kissing and having sex. She had no problems with the idea then.
I wonder if she would have refused to do a scene with Scott Clifton. Since she wants her beliefs respected, would she have shown the same respect to Clifton? And would she support his right not to play a scene where Schuyler goes to church because it's against his moral principles? Would those that applaud Mauceri for her "stance" applaud him for a similar reaction? MY gut tells me no.
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Originally posted by east/west: Then there was that steamy, unmarried tryst with RJ. Oh well, let the blogger who is without sin, cast the first stone! Thanks drsbroadway for the tip!
No she was with Hank, not RJ..I guess it is true, most white people think we all look alike..
There are too many up-tight gay people on this borad..They need to get laid.. holla at me and if your in my area maybe I can help you out..
I'm sure this has been said before, but Ms. Mauceri WASN'T FIRED. The account I heard was that she was asked if she was willing to lose her job over her refusal to play the scenes as written and she voluntarily said she WAS prepared to walk. She CHOSE to leave, it was HER decision.
