Y&R's Showrunner Josh Griffith Talks Jordan and Ian's Team Up

Y&R's EP and Head Writer Josh Griffith breaks down Jordan and Ian's partnership.

Author:
Jillian Bowe
Publish date:
Nov 20, 2024

Colleen Zenk, Ray Wise
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Two of Genoa City's most notorious menaces, Jordan Howard (Colleen Zenk) and Ian Ward (Ray Wise), have formed a surprising partnership on The Young and the Restless. The two high camp villains are teaming up to destroy the lives of Sharon (Sharon Case) and Phyllis (Michelle Stafford), but their exact motives have left Y&R viewers pondering. What's their endgame? Y&R's executive producer and head writer Josh Griffith spoke with Soap Opera Digest to explain all with regards to Heather's (Vail Bloom) murder.

Griffith told the magazine that he put a lot of thought into the reveal of Heather's killers:

I knew that it needed to be somebody who not only we could come up with motive for the killing, but that also the reveal would be massive,. It wouldn’t just be, ‘Oh, who’s that?’ And I started looking into, historically, who had a beef with the Newmans. And we landed on Ian Ward. And then I started thinking. I actually watched Strangers on a Train, the Hitchcock film, because I’m a Hitchcock fanatic. I hadn’t watched it in a while and I started thinking about the idea of crisscross, which is important in that movie: ‘You do my crime and I’ll do yours.’ And I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if Ian had an accomplice that equally needed something to happen because they were angry and they felt they’d been wronged?’ And I said, ‘Well, we’ve got Jordan in prison…’ In a nutshell, the idea is that these two wonderful villains — who both have reasons to want revenge in Genoa City — would find each other and team up. It seemed perfect and that this murder could be the catalyst for the whole thing. As we were putting the pressure on Sharon and we were slowly starting to reveal that things were not exactly as she thinks they are, at the perfect point, we would then reveal to the audience these two mastermind criminals. ‘They must be behind it. They must have something to do with it!’

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Y&R's Showrunner Josh Griffith Talks Jordan and Ian's Team Up

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