Thank You Jamey for doing this interview. I was just thinking about Passions today. No matter how many soaps I watch(ed) nothing can ever compare to Passions. I wish Phillip the best of luck in his future. I find it very interesting he never got to meet JER. I don't think anyone except the original cast ever met him to my knowledge. That show was one of a kind and props to Phillip for dawning those wonderful outfits and wearing a mask for almost a whole year! I always wondered what it was like on that set, especially with the actors and their direction. You hear on Y&R how actors intercede into their storylines, I doubt any Passions actor had a voice at all. Aw this is sad, this makes me miss Harmony! lol Best wishes Phillip.
Great interview, I was just wondering today about the actors that played Chad and Vincent with all the Nuke and Kish press recently I don't remember much about the pairing even though I watched the show at the time. I think the internet has changed a lot since Chad and Vincent, more people are doing podcast and blogging. Didnt Kish have a fansite before one of the characters debuted? I know the Otalia fansite was created before they got together.
You are right on point. Both Chad and Vincent and Simone and Rae were pushing the boundaries of daytime before the Nukes and Otalia's and there was no hand clapping. No major articles done. And this with C & V was way before they decided to make them related.
Vincent always knew that he was in some way related to Chad. When he first came to town, Chad was thought to be Eve and Julian's son. Later it was revealed that Chad was Alistair and Liz's child. Vincent knew that he was a Crane.
Jeanmarie deserves credit for his acting.
Chad & Vincent as a couple sucked. No cookies and milk for them.
No what happened with them wasn't preplanned in fact that wasn't even the plan. Many stories had to scrapped to due to budgets cuts. So they rewrote storylines. A former writer of the show stated as such as to the reason's why Liz and Tc were written out.
Great interview! I love Passions---my favorite soap EVER---and Phillip was very good on it. But don't forget, Daphnee Duplaix played Vincent for two years before Phillip joined the cast.
I was a “Passions” writer who has been checking this board for quite along time and during the last 2 years I have noticed that alot of "Shuis" fans have been upset with Mr. James Reilly(God rest his soul)
due to what he was writing for Luis/Sheridan. I was never able to release this information while “Passions” was still on the air, but with “Passions” over now I felt there was no need to withhold this information, so all you "Shuis" fans I want you to know the "real story" behind what happened to Luis/Sheridan!
In January 2006, we were told by NBC that they would agree to renew “Passions” for another year, but we would have to slash the budget about 5 million dollars as was officially reported back in late May 2006. We had fired alot of backstage crew along with several cast members we were forced to write out because of the budget slash. Those character were: Rachael, Martin, Katherine, Alistair(dropped to recurring), Maya, Liz, Chris(dropped to recurring), Roberto, and TC(dropped to recurring) Those characters were never meant to be written off as there was story planned for all of them
“Passions” was usually written about 3 months ahead and when we were told to slash the budget in early January 2006 we had already written close to the end of March 2006, so then we were forced to write out characters. We chose those characters because none were part of any supercouples that we had centered the show around(Luis/Sheridan, Ethan/Theresa, Eve/Julian, Sam/Ivy, Chad/Whitney and Kay/Miguel), so we felt if we were going to have to write out people, we would start with people who weren't an asset to the show. That’s when we came up with the Rome storyline. We thought it would be the perfect place to push alot of the cast together, and that’s where we came up with the whole Luis/Fancy and Noah/Paloma stories.
Before we were told to slash the budget, our original story plans were alot different. We had a Luis/Sheridan/Chris triangle that would have lasted quite a while and a Fancy/Noah/Maya triangle that we were going to make the next Ivy/Sam/Grace. We definitely loved the Noah/Fancy pairing and we had plans for it long term, but when we were told to slash budget were forced to put those plans on hold, and due to that we didn't want to write either of them off so we decided to slash Maya and Chris and put Luis with Fancy and throw Noah with Paloma until we could afford to get everything back on track again, and in order to write Chris off without revealing his secrets or reuniting Luis/Sheridan we came up with the idea of Sheridan going "crazy" to push Luis and Chris away from her thus writing Chris out, but it was never our plan to leave Sheridan the way we did. Our plans were to bring Beth back in the mix a few months after we were able to afford to bring Alistair back in August 2007. We even hinted at Beth being alive and possibly being out there when we brought Alistair back and revealed Marty was alive. Our intentions were to bring Beth back in December 2007, that’s why viewers saw such a weird turn with the Luis/Sheridan and Noah/Fancy stories around late November with Fancy breaking up with Luis and starting to share scenes with Noah, because we were planning to reveal the Sheridan viewers were seeing on their screen that whole year was Beth in disguise all along in December, but while we were writing those scenes for November in August we had called Kelli McCarty to reprise her role as Beth for a short time, only to have Sheridan be revealed to have been Beth all along and go to prison. The real Sheridan was supposed to have been locked up by Chris under Alistair’s orders(remember back in Rome when Alistair called Chris before his train blew up, he told him to do something that Chris didn‘t want to do but Alistair threatened him to do it, that’s what that “something” was supposed to be), but Sheridan would not have known that it was Chris that was holding her, just that Alistair was behind it. And when Luis found her Chris would have came back to reclaim Sheridan and would have done whatever he could to make sure that Sheridan stayed married to him while Luis would be trying to prove to Sheridan that Chris was working for Alistair and that James wasn't his son which would have brought us the Luis/Sheridan/Chris storyline again the way we had originally planned before the massive budget cuts in 2006. And we would have had a Fancy/Noah/Paloma triangle with Noah being drawn to Fancy while he was with Paloma because of Fancy's weird behavior due to the chip. That story wasn't our original 2006 story but would have been fine just the same
That’s why when we wrote off Chris we didn't have him exposed because we had plans to bring him back. We had Adrian Wilson on recurring when the show moved to Direct TV along with Rodney Van Johnson(TC) and Danica Stewart(Jessica) as was reported in SOD. But the plans to bring Chris back got stalled and eventually scrapped, and that was because Kelli McCarty only agreed to return to the show if she was given a long term deal and because that wasn't our original plan we were forced to keep the stories the way they were until we were able come up with a long term plan for Beth, and that is why we had entered Pretty in the Sheridan/Luis storyline and later scrapped the Fancy/Noah/Paloma chip storyline and put Roberto in the mix so we could stall until were able to fit Beth back in the show long term.
When we finally were able to fit her back in the show long term, we called her back in November 2007and had offered her the contract, but before anything could really get underway we were told by Direct Tv that they weren't picking up “Passions” for another year and that the show would go off in August. We were than forced to call Kelli back and tell her we couldn't give her the contract. And when we were told the show would go off Direct Tv in August we had already written up to mid March of 2008, a little more then 4 months ahead which was more than usual, but when the show moved to Direct TV the show was cut to 4 days a week which was less shows to write a week, so we had written more ahead then the usual 3 months. But when it was announced that the show would go off Direct TV in August they had also told us the show would be cut to 3 days a week instead of 4 at the beginning of 2008, so that would have meant that instead of mid March 2008 if it was 4 shows a week, that we had written the show up to Early April. So during November and December 2007 our executive Producer Lisa De Cozette was searching for another home for “Passions” while were were trying to write as much as possible to pitch to other networks(i.e. Alistair's Death, Sheridan's Niagara Falls Tumble, Pretty Fake Scar reveal etc..) and by the time Lisa De Cozette had came back from trying to pitch the show to as many networks as possible with no luck(Which was right after New Years), we had already written the show to the beginning of July. We only had a month left of scripts that we had to write, and without Kelli McCarty back as Beth to repair Luis/Sheridan with the whole Sheridan being Beth all along story, we couldn't bring Chris back as there would have been no point without the Beth being Sheridan reveal, which meant we couldn't fix Luis/Sheridan. But we didn't want to end the show with any loose ends so it would not have been fair for Sheridan to end up alone, so we called up Christopher Douglas to reprise his role of Antonio for the last few weeks so Sheridan can at least end up with what we classified her "second love“. And to end it with no loose ends we had to get Antonio to make Sheridan believe that he was who she was "meant to be with" so there would be no loose ends. Never did we expect fans to believe that Luis was Sheridan's "Unhealthy Obsession" and that Antonio was who she was "Fated" to be with. That’s why we threw in that line that Gwen told Sheridan(that she was settling for "second best"), because we knew the viewers felt that way. It was more about wrapping the show up without any loose ends than upsetting "Shuis" fans by leaving them heartbroken and feeling that James Reilly hated them.
I just want all you “Shuis” fans to know that, that was the story behind what happened to Luis/Sheridan, so you don’t have to go around thinking that James Reilly hated the “Shuis” fans because that was never the case at all!
I am one of biggest Phillip's supporters out there. Thank you for that interview. Phillip was robbed big time for the Emmys but the committee just continue to play politics and favorites for that year. I think the reason why that Vincent does not get recognizition with the GLADD comunity is because JER written Vincent as a horrible stereotype as being a intersexed serial killer and his character was criticise among the gay community. But at least Simone always get appraised by Gladd. If Vincent was a more influencial intersexed and not was being written as a joke then Gladd would definately give Phillip his props. I am glad that Phillip used Passions as an opportunity to make him a stronger actor and he is already one of the best out there and so I hope that he lands onto bigger projects after he can prove his comical skills on his new series WORKSHOP.
Chad and Vincent deserved the finest wines and berries from France darling. Of course we don't poop where i come from we 'poupe'...lol "vous êtes ma passion pour la vie"
I remember that writer on NBC Passions board and I had spoken to that writer over email for a few times. He told me that when Phillip first came on Passions and even Phillip had confirmed this in SOD that Phillip was supposed to be just a stunt guy to Fancy rapist and unnamed blackmailer working for Alistair. His role was originally supposed to be short term. Because even Phillip was already on the show around November 2006, they was still doing casting call for the character Vincent. So Phillip's nightstalker/Fancy's unnamed rapist became Vincent Clarkson, the newspaper journalist. From my memory serves with the conversation I had with the writer, after the cancellation of Passions on NBC, Vincent was supposed to be killed by Alistair and he was come back for the finale because he had no use for Vincent anymore and of course to destroy all Harmony residents. For some reason John Reilly was unavailable for appearing the NBC episodes until the finale episodes and when Passions was picked up on DTV, then things change Vincent became the blackmailer and responsible for all the crimes , with Alistair pulling his string, and he survives during the NBC finale because I was told JER liked Phillip and wanted to keep him on DTV. Plus Phillip is more cost effective than John Reilly and that is why he was selected as the new Crane villian or the next Alistair from what I was told to go on DTV. FInally JER did not wanted to kill off Alistair but he had no choice because John Reilly didnt came cheap for DTV to pay. And also Phillip supposed to appear more episodes too after Vincent was arrested with Viki but due to the costs with DTV, his character was finished on that day.
Yeah, I don't like most of Passions era, but I got to give Reilly credit for pushing them onscreen unlike other soaps that want the publicity but back out.
Oh Josstheguy dont get me started of the frustrations that I had with JER of the way he wrote Vincent's character. His character had potential to be the best on daytime with Phillip getting recognizion left and right and Vincent can be mentally stable without him had to do all that killing and stuff. I understand that Vincent's life was tragedic but he can turn that tragedy into something more inspirational. Oh I forgot to add here that the Passions writer told me that Liza De Cazette, the former EP, was shopping hard of giving Passions another home and if the show would find another home then JER would have change Vincent and got him some help. It was a bummer too that this did not happen when the show was on DTV. I remember too after Vincent was arrested by Sam and Luis after Eve exposed him as the blackmailer and killer, I thought that Vincent was on a road for redemption when he was seeking help in the jail cell but nah JER went back to his old tricks again with Vincent to make him Alistair-like after Alistair helped him escaped from jail.
And also I did enjoy the short term Chadcent days despite the sex and despite how poor Phillip tried to bring chemistry to the awkwardness of between Charles Divins and Phillip during the love scenes. Yeah JER basically ruined Vincent but still PJ rocks in that role.
great interview jamey. i wasn't a big passions fan either. i hated the dragging out of storylines and how the days never ended. lol i did see 'vincent and chad' as i did try to watch the show off and on.
JER didn't ruin Vincent. Vincent became so much cooler and epic when he turned out to be Valerie! I always preferred Daphnee's portrayal, so I felt like she really got the short end of the stick because they focused too much on Vincent.
It was fitting that Julian and Eve's child turned out to be such a mess. Much better than being a saint. Makes for good drama!
Passions truly needed one more year to wrap up its stories, and this has never been more evident than from the writer's statement above.
Beth could've returned as a badass villainess, paving the way for a Shuis reunion because Sheridan would've been redeemed.
They needed to bring back Charity, reunite her with Miguel, and have her come into her full powers of goodness.
Grace should've returned, having been held captive by Ivy, and she and Sam should've reunited and investigated the first twenty years of her life that she couldn't remember.
And finally, they should have cast John Loprieno as Jonathan Hotchkiss and put him with Andrea Evans' Rebecca!
Thank you very much for the great intreview, Jamey. It was great to hear that Phillip Jeanmarie really enjoyed his time on Passions, as it seems so many Passions stars didn't. I'm glad it's also helped do other things too, his new show looks really interesting too, can't wait to see more of it!
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11 April 2009
11 hours 20 min
Jamey,
Cool interview.
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
Oh yeah Jamey this makes my day!
23 April 2008
5 hours 33 min
Thank You Jamey for doing this interview. I was just thinking about Passions today. No matter how many soaps I watch(ed) nothing can ever compare to Passions. I wish Phillip the best of luck in his future. I find it very interesting he never got to meet JER. I don't think anyone except the original cast ever met him to my knowledge. That show was one of a kind and props to Phillip for dawning those wonderful outfits and wearing a mask for almost a whole year! I always wondered what it was like on that set, especially with the actors and their direction. You hear on Y&R how actors intercede into their storylines, I doubt any Passions actor had a voice at all. Aw this is sad, this makes me miss Harmony! lol Best wishes Phillip.
23 April 2008
5 hours 33 min
Terribly sorry for the multiple posts
2 April 2009
12 hours 25 min
Great interview, I was just wondering today about the actors that played Chad and Vincent with all the Nuke and Kish press recently I don't remember much about the pairing even though I watched the show at the time. I think the internet has changed a lot since Chad and Vincent, more people are doing podcast and blogging. Didnt Kish have a fansite before one of the characters debuted? I know the Otalia fansite was created before they got together.
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
katiebug9624,
You are right on point. Both Chad and Vincent and Simone and Rae were pushing the boundaries of daytime before the Nukes and Otalia's and there was no hand clapping. No major articles done. And this with C & V was way before they decided to make them related.
22 January 2008
4 min 4 sec
Glad you guys liked it. Passions wasn't my cup of tea, but I know you guys loved it, and Phillip is definitely a star!
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
Yeah he was crazy. He was a nut. Now if Jamey you could score one with Tracey Ross that would be a gold mind!
Here goes the last reminisce of his storyline on Passions if anyone wants to see.
Eve, Julian, Vincent http://bit.ly/eyVOK
11 April 2009
11 hours 20 min
David,
Vincent always knew that he was in some way related to Chad. When he first came to town, Chad was thought to be Eve and Julian's son. Later it was revealed that Chad was Alistair and Liz's child. Vincent knew that he was a Crane.
Jeanmarie deserves credit for his acting.
Chad & Vincent as a couple sucked. No cookies and milk for them.
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
They are too good for cookies and milk. They deserve Cristal and Saveurs Helix Escargot. Served on a sliver platter at Chateau de Borguies.
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
No what happened with them wasn't preplanned in fact that wasn't even the plan. Many stories had to scrapped to due to budgets cuts. So they rewrote storylines. A former writer of the show stated as such as to the reason's why Liz and Tc were written out.
4 May 2008
1 min 53 sec
Great interview! I love Passions---my favorite soap EVER---and Phillip was very good on it. But don't forget, Daphnee Duplaix played Vincent for two years before Phillip joined the cast.
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
Here is what a former Passions writer had to say:
I was a “Passions” writer who has been checking this board for quite along time and during the last 2 years I have noticed that alot of "Shuis" fans have been upset with Mr. James Reilly(God rest his soul)
due to what he was writing for Luis/Sheridan. I was never able to release this information while “Passions” was still on the air, but with “Passions” over now I felt there was no need to withhold this information, so all you "Shuis" fans I want you to know the "real story" behind what happened to Luis/Sheridan!
In January 2006, we were told by NBC that they would agree to renew “Passions” for another year, but we would have to slash the budget about 5 million dollars as was officially reported back in late May 2006. We had fired alot of backstage crew along with several cast members we were forced to write out because of the budget slash. Those character were: Rachael, Martin, Katherine, Alistair(dropped to recurring), Maya, Liz, Chris(dropped to recurring), Roberto, and TC(dropped to recurring) Those characters were never meant to be written off as there was story planned for all of them
“Passions” was usually written about 3 months ahead and when we were told to slash the budget in early January 2006 we had already written close to the end of March 2006, so then we were forced to write out characters. We chose those characters because none were part of any supercouples that we had centered the show around(Luis/Sheridan, Ethan/Theresa, Eve/Julian, Sam/Ivy, Chad/Whitney and Kay/Miguel), so we felt if we were going to have to write out people, we would start with people who weren't an asset to the show. That’s when we came up with the Rome storyline. We thought it would be the perfect place to push alot of the cast together, and that’s where we came up with the whole Luis/Fancy and Noah/Paloma stories.
Before we were told to slash the budget, our original story plans were alot different. We had a Luis/Sheridan/Chris triangle that would have lasted quite a while and a Fancy/Noah/Maya triangle that we were going to make the next Ivy/Sam/Grace. We definitely loved the Noah/Fancy pairing and we had plans for it long term, but when we were told to slash budget were forced to put those plans on hold, and due to that we didn't want to write either of them off so we decided to slash Maya and Chris and put Luis with Fancy and throw Noah with Paloma until we could afford to get everything back on track again, and in order to write Chris off without revealing his secrets or reuniting Luis/Sheridan we came up with the idea of Sheridan going "crazy" to push Luis and Chris away from her thus writing Chris out, but it was never our plan to leave Sheridan the way we did. Our plans were to bring Beth back in the mix a few months after we were able to afford to bring Alistair back in August 2007. We even hinted at Beth being alive and possibly being out there when we brought Alistair back and revealed Marty was alive. Our intentions were to bring Beth back in December 2007, that’s why viewers saw such a weird turn with the Luis/Sheridan and Noah/Fancy stories around late November with Fancy breaking up with Luis and starting to share scenes with Noah, because we were planning to reveal the Sheridan viewers were seeing on their screen that whole year was Beth in disguise all along in December, but while we were writing those scenes for November in August we had called Kelli McCarty to reprise her role as Beth for a short time, only to have Sheridan be revealed to have been Beth all along and go to prison. The real Sheridan was supposed to have been locked up by Chris under Alistair’s orders(remember back in Rome when Alistair called Chris before his train blew up, he told him to do something that Chris didn‘t want to do but Alistair threatened him to do it, that’s what that “something” was supposed to be), but Sheridan would not have known that it was Chris that was holding her, just that Alistair was behind it. And when Luis found her Chris would have came back to reclaim Sheridan and would have done whatever he could to make sure that Sheridan stayed married to him while Luis would be trying to prove to Sheridan that Chris was working for Alistair and that James wasn't his son which would have brought us the Luis/Sheridan/Chris storyline again the way we had originally planned before the massive budget cuts in 2006. And we would have had a Fancy/Noah/Paloma triangle with Noah being drawn to Fancy while he was with Paloma because of Fancy's weird behavior due to the chip. That story wasn't our original 2006 story but would have been fine just the same
That’s why when we wrote off Chris we didn't have him exposed because we had plans to bring him back. We had Adrian Wilson on recurring when the show moved to Direct TV along with Rodney Van Johnson(TC) and Danica Stewart(Jessica) as was reported in SOD. But the plans to bring Chris back got stalled and eventually scrapped, and that was because Kelli McCarty only agreed to return to the show if she was given a long term deal and because that wasn't our original plan we were forced to keep the stories the way they were until we were able come up with a long term plan for Beth, and that is why we had entered Pretty in the Sheridan/Luis storyline and later scrapped the Fancy/Noah/Paloma chip storyline and put Roberto in the mix so we could stall until were able to fit Beth back in the show long term.
When we finally were able to fit her back in the show long term, we called her back in November 2007and had offered her the contract, but before anything could really get underway we were told by Direct Tv that they weren't picking up “Passions” for another year and that the show would go off in August. We were than forced to call Kelli back and tell her we couldn't give her the contract. And when we were told the show would go off Direct Tv in August we had already written up to mid March of 2008, a little more then 4 months ahead which was more than usual, but when the show moved to Direct TV the show was cut to 4 days a week which was less shows to write a week, so we had written more ahead then the usual 3 months. But when it was announced that the show would go off Direct TV in August they had also told us the show would be cut to 3 days a week instead of 4 at the beginning of 2008, so that would have meant that instead of mid March 2008 if it was 4 shows a week, that we had written the show up to Early April. So during November and December 2007 our executive Producer Lisa De Cozette was searching for another home for “Passions” while were were trying to write as much as possible to pitch to other networks(i.e. Alistair's Death, Sheridan's Niagara Falls Tumble, Pretty Fake Scar reveal etc..) and by the time Lisa De Cozette had came back from trying to pitch the show to as many networks as possible with no luck(Which was right after New Years), we had already written the show to the beginning of July. We only had a month left of scripts that we had to write, and without Kelli McCarty back as Beth to repair Luis/Sheridan with the whole Sheridan being Beth all along story, we couldn't bring Chris back as there would have been no point without the Beth being Sheridan reveal, which meant we couldn't fix Luis/Sheridan. But we didn't want to end the show with any loose ends so it would not have been fair for Sheridan to end up alone, so we called up Christopher Douglas to reprise his role of Antonio for the last few weeks so Sheridan can at least end up with what we classified her "second love“. And to end it with no loose ends we had to get Antonio to make Sheridan believe that he was who she was "meant to be with" so there would be no loose ends. Never did we expect fans to believe that Luis was Sheridan's "Unhealthy Obsession" and that Antonio was who she was "Fated" to be with. That’s why we threw in that line that Gwen told Sheridan(that she was settling for "second best"), because we knew the viewers felt that way. It was more about wrapping the show up without any loose ends than upsetting "Shuis" fans by leaving them heartbroken and feeling that James Reilly hated them.
I just want all you “Shuis” fans to know that, that was the story behind what happened to Luis/Sheridan, so you don’t have to go around thinking that James Reilly hated the “Shuis” fans because that was never the case at all!
29 July 2009
42 weeks 2 days
I am one of biggest Phillip's supporters out there. Thank you for that interview. Phillip was robbed big time for the Emmys but the committee just continue to play politics and favorites for that year. I think the reason why that Vincent does not get recognizition with the GLADD comunity is because JER written Vincent as a horrible stereotype as being a intersexed serial killer and his character was criticise among the gay community. But at least Simone always get appraised by Gladd. If Vincent was a more influencial intersexed and not was being written as a joke then Gladd would definately give Phillip his props. I am glad that Phillip used Passions as an opportunity to make him a stronger actor and he is already one of the best out there and so I hope that he lands onto bigger projects after he can prove his comical skills on his new series WORKSHOP.
11 April 2009
11 hours 20 min
David,
First, incestuous characters don't deserve accolades.
Second, the quote from the Passions writer says nothing about Vincent at all.
Again, Chad & Vincent deserve two scoops of poop.
The actors may be talented but the characters were worthless.
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
Chad and Vincent deserved the finest wines and berries from France darling. Of course we don't poop where i come from we 'poupe'...lol "vous êtes ma passion pour la vie"
29 July 2009
42 weeks 2 days
I remember that writer on NBC Passions board and I had spoken to that writer over email for a few times. He told me that when Phillip first came on Passions and even Phillip had confirmed this in SOD that Phillip was supposed to be just a stunt guy to Fancy rapist and unnamed blackmailer working for Alistair. His role was originally supposed to be short term. Because even Phillip was already on the show around November 2006, they was still doing casting call for the character Vincent. So Phillip's nightstalker/Fancy's unnamed rapist became Vincent Clarkson, the newspaper journalist. From my memory serves with the conversation I had with the writer, after the cancellation of Passions on NBC, Vincent was supposed to be killed by Alistair and he was come back for the finale because he had no use for Vincent anymore and of course to destroy all Harmony residents. For some reason John Reilly was unavailable for appearing the NBC episodes until the finale episodes and when Passions was picked up on DTV, then things change Vincent became the blackmailer and responsible for all the crimes , with Alistair pulling his string, and he survives during the NBC finale because I was told JER liked Phillip and wanted to keep him on DTV. Plus Phillip is more cost effective than John Reilly and that is why he was selected as the new Crane villian or the next Alistair from what I was told to go on DTV. FInally JER did not wanted to kill off Alistair but he had no choice because John Reilly didnt came cheap for DTV to pay. And also Phillip supposed to appear more episodes too after Vincent was arrested with Viki but due to the costs with DTV, his character was finished on that day.
11 April 2009
11 hours 20 min
bwilsonwriter,
I agree with you! Vincent was a version of the classic "depraved homosexual."
4 May 2008
1 min 53 sec
Very interesting to hear that Beth was supposed to return! What about Grace and Charity?
15 January 2009
50 weeks 5 days
Thanks for the added information. It goes to show that a cash strapped show will have to make ends meet.
4 May 2008
1 min 53 sec
How can I get in touch with this writer? haha
8 May 2008
10 hours 48 min
Yeah, I don't like most of Passions era, but I got to give Reilly credit for pushing them onscreen unlike other soaps that want the publicity but back out.
29 July 2009
42 weeks 2 days
Oh Josstheguy dont get me started of the frustrations that I had with JER of the way he wrote Vincent's character. His character had potential to be the best on daytime with Phillip getting recognizion left and right and Vincent can be mentally stable without him had to do all that killing and stuff. I understand that Vincent's life was tragedic but he can turn that tragedy into something more inspirational. Oh I forgot to add here that the Passions writer told me that Liza De Cazette, the former EP, was shopping hard of giving Passions another home and if the show would find another home then JER would have change Vincent and got him some help. It was a bummer too that this did not happen when the show was on DTV. I remember too after Vincent was arrested by Sam and Luis after Eve exposed him as the blackmailer and killer, I thought that Vincent was on a road for redemption when he was seeking help in the jail cell but nah JER went back to his old tricks again with Vincent to make him Alistair-like after Alistair helped him escaped from jail.
And also I did enjoy the short term Chadcent days despite the sex and despite how poor Phillip tried to bring chemistry to the awkwardness of between Charles Divins and Phillip during the love scenes. Yeah JER basically ruined Vincent but still PJ rocks in that role.
28 April 2009
26 weeks 3 days
great interview jamey. i wasn't a big passions fan either. i hated the dragging out of storylines and how the days never ended. lol i did see 'vincent and chad' as i did try to watch the show off and on.
4 May 2008
1 min 53 sec
JER didn't ruin Vincent. Vincent became so much cooler and epic when he turned out to be Valerie! I always preferred Daphnee's portrayal, so I felt like she really got the short end of the stick because they focused too much on Vincent.
It was fitting that Julian and Eve's child turned out to be such a mess. Much better than being a saint. Makes for good drama!
4 May 2008
1 min 53 sec
Passions truly needed one more year to wrap up its stories, and this has never been more evident than from the writer's statement above.
Beth could've returned as a badass villainess, paving the way for a Shuis reunion because Sheridan would've been redeemed.
They needed to bring back Charity, reunite her with Miguel, and have her come into her full powers of goodness.
Grace should've returned, having been held captive by Ivy, and she and Sam should've reunited and investigated the first twenty years of her life that she couldn't remember.
And finally, they should have cast John Loprieno as Jonathan Hotchkiss and put him with Andrea Evans' Rebecca!
And that's only the tip of the iceberg!
14 December 2008
21 hours 24 min
Thank you very much for the great intreview, Jamey. It was great to hear that Phillip Jeanmarie really enjoyed his time on Passions, as it seems so many Passions stars didn't. I'm glad it's also helped do other things too, his new show looks really interesting too, can't wait to see more of it!