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VCOS: You’re playing Sam Carmichael, who’s a good guy, as we see from the very beginning, but is there something extra of your own that you add to that character?ĮRIC: It’s funny, I had a vocal session yesterday with our musical director and I said to him, point blank, “Listen, man, most of the performances of Sam that I’ve seen have been pretty straightforward, pretty legit, and I’m a little more rock ‘n’ roll than the average musical theatre guy. You preserve and respect what other people have brought to the role but after your name is on the dotted line, it’s your baby. You’re given the football and you get to run with it. And you know, Kim had to pull up her boots and replace Misty Cotton, who was originally cast as Donna in this show so it’s the same kind of game. I replaced the actor who played Ethan on Passions and I replaced the guy who was playing my current character, Brady Black so I’m pretty comfortable stepping into shoes that had been already filled so I got the whole “replacement character” thing down. VCOS: Do you feel like you have to exercise different acting muscles work within a different character?ĮRIC: It’s interesting, Cary, my whole career in soap operas has been about replacing an existing character. Passions was a six-year run and I’ve been with Days Of Our Lives for the last fourteen years. I’ve been with NBC now for almost twenty years. I kind of resembled him and I guess I said my words correctly and landed the gig. I didn’t get the original job, but three years later, the guy playing the character Ethan decided to quit and I was there.

It came upon me in 1999 when the show Passions came along on NBC and I was lucky enough to get an audition for that.

PASSIONS SOAP OPERA FUNNY MOVIE

I’m never in Budapest filming a movie for six months, I’m never in a city for longer than a week, I’m at home in Burbank, shoot my show, and I’m home for dinner almost every night. As a family guy and a father trying to raise twin boys who are now fifteen, it’s a wonderful job for an actor to balance family life and a career.

VCOS: How did you fall into the soap opera trap?ĮRIC: Funny you should call it a trap. I can barely get to Costco, let alone Mamma Mia! Since the soap opera career has taken over my world, there isn’t a heck of a lot of time to do musical theater so I have to be very careful as to what I commit myself to because soaps never sleep. My roots are in musical theater and whenever I can get my butt on stage, I try to do it. VCOS: How long has it been for you since you were on stage?ĮRIC: I did a show at the Welk two Christmases ago and it was a blast.

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