OLTL Outside Llanview: The Cast In Other Roles

[TeeVee329]

Oh Tuc, swoon!

http://tvline.com/2016/07/19/republican-convention-tuc-watkins-blasts-antonio-sabato-speech/

[UYI]

On 7/19/2016 at 6:58 PM, TeeVee329 said:

Oh Tuc, swoon!

http://tvline.com/2016/07/19/republican-convention-tuc-watkins-blasts-antonio-sabato-speech/

Technically this could go under the GH forum, too, as Tuc played Pierce Dorman from 1996-1997, but I know the mods have already shut down the ASJ talk there. 

[boes]

On 7/19/2016 at 4:58 PM, TeeVee329 said:

Oh Tuc, swoon!

http://tvline.com/2016/07/19/republican-convention-tuc-watkins-blasts-antonio-sabato-speech/

 

2 hours ago, UYI said:

Technically this could go under the GH forum, too, as Tuc played Pierce Dorman from 1996-1997, but I know the mods have already shut down the ASJ talk there. 

Love him, just love the guy!

[jsbt]

Laura Harrier and the rest of her Spider-Man: Homecoming castmates at SDCC! So proud:

Edited July 24, 2016 by jsbt

[atomationage]

I don't even recognize her as Destiny from that photo.  She played Destiny, the mother of Matthew's baby? 

[TeeVee329]

Laura Harrier played Destiny on the Prospect Park OLTL:

[atomationage]

Oh okay, now I remember her.  I kept picturing the original actress from when the series was on tv.

[Panopticon]

Good for her.

Now I need to hear David tell Matthew "I have a date with destiny... and I don't mean your girlfriend!" It amused me every time he said it.

[dubbel zout]

Corbin Bleu (Jeffrey) got married. Congrats to him and his wife!

[TeeVee329]

Another big role for REG:

http://deadline.com/2016/07/renee-elise-goldsberry-cast-hbo-films-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-oprah-winfrey-1201792421/

[Rick Kitchen]

I saw Cabaret today at Sacramento Music Circus today, and the role of Fraulein Schneider was played by Mary Gordon Murray (Becky Lee).  She was really good in the role.

The lead male role, that of Cliff, was played by an actor named Ryan Hunter Herdlicka, who apparently had a role in the online reboot, but I don't remember him.

[dubbel zout]

He was in one episode, so it's no wonder you don't remember him. I don't either.

[TeeVee329]

I took a spin by IMDb and I don't remember this guy.  Probably just some bro who talked to Destiny or Dani at Shelter.

ETA...oh geez, he was in one of the Dusky episodes.  Dusky...shuuuuuder.

Edited August 1, 2016 by TeeVee329

[Melgaypet]

What, TeeVee329? Don't tell me you didn't appreciate the musical and lyrical genius that was "White Girl Wasted?"

I have no memory of this Herdlicka dude either.

[Panopticon]

I will always believe that she was supposed to be a recast Starr but they changed their minds midway through.

(Also no memory of that guy here. But an unfortunately good memory for the lyrics of "White Girl Wasted.")

[jsbt]

I think Dusky was on Jeff Kwatinetz's record label IRL and that's why they put her in (and then thankfully disposed of her).

[TeeVee329]

I personally thought Dusky was being primed to be paired with Jack.  They made a bunch of noise about her being relatively age appropriate, and had her clash with Blair right from the get.  But instead, Dusty got the boot (yay!) and Jack boned that teacher instead (meh).

[jsbt]

I don't remember if Dusky and Jack ever shared scenes. I did think it was a possibility based solely on age.

From the GH side, here's a new interview with Roger Howarth where OLTL does come up.

[TeeVee329]

I'm not sure they ever did, it was just a hunch I had based, like you said, on her being established as close to his age and Blair taking an instant dislike to her.

[jsbt]

According to several major industry sites, Laura Harrier is almost certainly playing Liz Allan, Peter Parker's popular-girl school crush in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Liz is a pretty steady supporting cast member in the Spidey books - in the comics, she marries Harry Osborn and becomes his long-suffering wife and mother of their son as he becomes the crazy second Green Goblin.

What really strikes me is that, with the big news that Zendaya Coleman is likely playing Mary Jane Watson, it looks like both romantic interests in Homecoming will be women of color opposite Tom Holland's white Peter Parker. That's honestly a huge thing and I'm so proud OLTL has even a tangential connection to any of it, however slight.

[TeeVee329]

Today in alumni news...

Tika Sumpter (Layla Williamson) is executive producing a new series for WGN:

http://deadline.com/2016/08/black-wall-street-series-john-legend-underground-producers-tika-sumpter-wgn-america-1201806887/

And Meghann Fahy (Crazy Hannah) has been cast in a pilot for Freeform:

http://deadline.com/2016/08/katie-stevens-aisha-dee-meghann-fahy-cast-leads-freeform-pilot-issues-1201806897/

[dubbel zout]

There was a nice article about Tika in Saturday's (I think?) NYT discussing Southside with You, the Obama date movie. She started out as a producer on it.

[TeeVee329]

Matt Walton (Elijah Clarke) showed up in the first episode of "Notorious" and may be recurring (I'm not sticking around to find out).  He's the head of the network that Piper Perabo's character works at.

[Dandesun]

Is that Sean as one of Cottonmouth's muscle in Luke Cage?

[dubbel zout]

Yes! According to IMDB, Sean Ringgold is Sugar.

[dubbel zout]

Tika Sumpter had her baby.

Edited October 26, 2016 by dubbel zout

[TeeVee329]

Chris McKenna (Joey Buchanan) was on the season premiere of "Mom" last night.  He played a guy Christie (Anna Faris) flirts with at an AA meeting.

[TeeVee329]

Yay Fish!  Scott Evans (Oliver Fish) is going to be recurring on a VH1 drama called "Daytime Divas".

http://deadline.com/2016/11/daytime-divas-kelly-osbourne-la-la-anthony-cast-1201848027/

[Melgaypet]

Ah, good for him! Although that show kind of sounds terrible. But maybe in a fun way?

[jsbt]

Not the cast, but a certain someone has had Donald Trump's name struck from her building:

Linda Gottlieb, a resident who started the petition, was elated. 'We won,' Ms. Gottlieb, a film and television producer, said. 'We used the power of protest to say that we don’t have to accept the spread of the man’s influence into our very homes. To me, it feels like a cleansing of the place where I live.'

[jsbt]

Goddamn, 2016! Eddie Alderson has lymphoma.

According to his sister though, he's doing okay.

[dubbel zout]

Cancer is a bitch, and chemo sucks. Good luck, Eddie!

Edited November 16, 2016 by dubbel zout
transposed the sentences for a more optimistic post.

[Melgaypet]

This year has just been vicious. Fuck cancer. I'm pulling for you, Eddie!

[Gigi43]

John Oliver's '"fuck 2016" segment really sums up the year perfectly. And it just keeps coming seems. How old is Eddie now? Terrible. 

[UYI]

19 hours ago, Gigi43 said:

John Oliver's '"fuck 2016" segment really sums up the year perfectly. And it just keeps coming seems. How old is Eddie now? Terrible. 

He turned 22 on October 27th.

[dubbel zout]

John Brotherton is in tonight's episode of Timeless.

[jsbt]

Kassie DePaiva is returning to DAYS shortly, which hopefully means good news for her continued recovery from cancer.

[Panopticon]

Days shoots six months ahead. The stuff that's about to air with Kassie's Eve is the work she did before she was diagnosed, setting up a story arc that Days had to adjust/pitch after she got too sick to work. Days is currently dark until mid-January and won't be shooting anything or leaking any casting announcements for a while.

[dubbel zout]

FUCK CANCER.

[jsbt]

Peter Parker has it bad for Destiny.

[TeeVee329]

I was just coming to post that.  It looks great and, yeah, Laura Harrier is quite prominent throughout.

In other alumni news, just a reminder that "Fuller House" dropped its new season today and John Brotherton (Jared Banks) is a series regular this year.

Edited December 9, 2016 by TeeVee329

[TeeVee329]

Tonja Walker (Alex Olanov) is returning to "General Hospital".  Frank Valentini is being coy about whether she's reprising Olivia Jerome, the character she played back in the day, but c'mon.

http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/tonja-walker-returns-gh/

[Melgaypet]

Yeah, because what that show needs is more characters. *eyeroll*

TeeVee, think of how often you'll have to point out that Lucas (Who?) never interacts with his aunt! I bet you're tired already.

I do miss Alex Olanov.

[TeeVee329]

4 hours ago, Melgaypet said:

TeeVee, think of how often you'll have to point out that Lucas (Who?) never interacts with his aunt! I bet you're tired already.

I do miss Alex Olanov.

Exhausted.  But I'll give the show a few free passes if they let Lucy be part of Olivia's story.  Seeing Tonja Walker and Lynn Herring play together would be fun for me.

I also loved TW as Alex Olanov (and then they made him Kimmie and Cutter's mom, amazing!), but I worry that won't translate to "General Hospital", i.e. Ilene Kristen as Delia.

Edited December 17, 2016 by TeeVee329

[TeeVee329]

Yuck.  I didn't catch this myself, but Daytime Confidential noted that that's David Gregory (Robert Ford) with Cush Jumbo's Lucca in the trailer for "The Good Fight".

http://daytimeconfidential.com/2016/12/19/one-life-to-lives-david-gregory-is-ready-for-the-good-fight

I'm sure he's a nice person IRL, but I can't see him without my blood pressure rising at the thought of how much I hated Ford.

[TeeVee329]

In other news about OLTL actors/characters I don't like, today is apparently JPL's last episode of DOOL:

http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/john-paul-lavoisier-departs-days-of-our-lives-with-his-final-appearance/2016/12/20/

[Panopticon]

1 hour ago, TeeVee329 said:

In other news about OLTL actors/characters I don't like, today is apparently JPL's last episode of DOOL:

http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/john-paul-lavoisier-departs-days-of-our-lives-with-his-final-appearance/2016/12/20/

In celebration of his exit, he wasn't even awful for the whole episode! There was even one line that he delivered almost in a Philip-like way! ("I know what you are, I know what you did, I'm done," or some such.) Of course that was overwhelmed by the random face-making and inexplicable intonations, but hey, small triumphs in a final episode where Philip got the best writing anyone has had in a month.

[TeeVee329]

Finally finished "Luke Cage" and, as others have said, it was fun seeing Sean Ringgold as Sugar.  And hey, it was also pretty cool that he's the one who got to call Rosario Dawson's Claire the Night Nurse!

Edited January 7, 2017 by TeeVee329

[dubbel zout]

Kamar de los Reyes was on last night's season premiere of Sleepy Hollow.

[TeeVee329]

Meghann Fahy's (Crazy Hannah) pilot for Freeform got picked up:

http://deadline.com/2017/01/the-bold-type-drama-joanna-coles-series-freeform-1201882265/