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| lysie | Feb 24 2013, 01:24 AM |
 
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What do you two have coming up? Shawn: A lot that I can’t talk about. Is there anything you can talk about? Kate: How much he loves working with me. Shawn: I love working with Kate Mansi. I actually do. This girl does her homework. She really does her homework. We’ve heard before that you try to research the histories. Kate: Yeah, I think it’s important to know where you came from, and if you can’t find it you just kind of make it up for yourself. Then someone tweets you and texts, and you realize that wasn’t correct. Like I found out I was a virgin a couple of months ago, and I was like “Surprise!” Is that still going to be a story in May? Kate: Well. I think you should watch. No, it’s still um. It’s a really exciting storyline, and there’s sort of an interesting triangle happening. If you watch, you’ll see. Shawn: She is not having sexual relations with anyone that I can express at this moment in time. Kate: That is true. That’s what we told my mom. Shawn: Mom’s not here. What do you think about this new story with Parker? Shawn: I think it’s fantastic. It’s quite a human quandary when you have a baby mama and a child you didn’t even know was yours, and it’s someone you actually really loved. It wasn’t a one night stand. I was in love with this woman and ready to marry her. But he’s moved forward with his life with Jennifer and is completely committed, and is trying to be a better person. Jennifer makes him a better person, and he’s given the ultimatum to kind of juggle that. He can’t have one without the other. It’s a very difficult challenge. I enjoy it. I love Parker. This kid listens like no one I’ve ever worked with. Kate: He’s the sweetest thing. Shawn: It’s just “Action” and we’re off with the scene. It’s like we’re playing make believe. Could you tell someone that he’s too big for that playpen? Shawn: We did. We had this conversation. It’s not appropriate for the kid, and I think they figured that out. But that kid’s so chill. Kate: He’s more of a professional than we are. Shawn: Yeah, he just goes to work. The play pen has now been dismissed. It was in the script before they cast the baby. There are conversations about his age, and I’m like, “I don’t know if he’s two.” I think there was something almost iconic about two parents looking at their child in a play pen. “Iconic” is kind of a big word. There’s something precious about that image, and I think that’s what was trying to be portrayed. What are your favorite scenes or storylines? Kate: I think I’ve had a lot of great storylines. My favorite part of Days is working with Missy Reeves because she’s just such a terrific woman and mother and friend and mentor. She’s just so great. I had my first scene with Missy and Shawn, and I was supposed to hug Shawn. So I just went into this big hug, and they were like, “Guys, could you maybe try to have not any chemistry?” And I was so embarrassed. But I feel really blessed to be able to say that I’ve been working with the two of them from the beginning. Any my favorite storyline apart from that would be with Patrick and Christie. I thought that was so much fun. I got to get slapped which was exciting and scary. Shawn: You hug Daniel like that again, I’m sure you’ll get slapped. Mama will not be happy. Kate: That’s true. Shawn: It’s interesting. We were trying to figure out the dynamic between Abby and Daniel. How do they relate? And we don’t really know. So we just kind of act on what we creatively feel, and it makes some people uneasy. It’s really subjective. SOme people can totally see that as a stepdad type thing and other people are like I’d keep my eyes on those two. So you get different directors who go... Kate: Tone it down. Shawn: Or maybe won’t sit us close. I don’t know. My own personal demons probably come out. Kate: Yeah, I think it translates because we are such good friends in real life. It makes sense to us, but people have their own ideas of how that should look. Because it could go anywhere. You never know. Shawn: Oh my God. Can you imagine. You lost your virginity to me. That wasn’t one of the options Casey gave us earlier. Shawn: Just getting people talking. And what’s been your favorite? Shawn: I did enjoy the Chloe/Philip baby storyline. When Daniel found out it wasn’t his baby because he had invested so much in this woman, and he had so much faith. He was just blindly in love and would see past anything. Everyone in town knew that she had a one night stand, but me. And I couldn’t even put it together. But to discover that in a church during a baptism. Hearing it from Caroline who is a pretty reliable source. It’s not like hearsay or Sami said “blah blah blah.” It was just so well put together, and to actually bludgeon someone with a crucifix at your child’s baptism. It had some many layers. And the woman who had the affair with my daughter’s fiance was my daughter’s husband. Kate: (gasp) Shawn: Right? Yeah. Kate: It’s like The Godfather. Twisted all around. Shawn: We literally go, like let’s bludgeon him with the statue of the madonna and child. It’s almost appropriate. But then it would be inappropriate. Kate: I don’t think that’s appropriate at all. But okay. Shawn: But then to do it with a crucifix and stop in the moment and realize there’s a better way to handle it. I liked that moment. It was good. I also had the question today about what have Maggie and Jennifer meant to Daniel. And Maggie has given me a sense of roots and foundation, and Jennifer’s given me a sense of morality. Now he has to keep that kind of behavior in check because he wants to. He wants to be a better man, and Jennifer makes him a better man. His mother challenges him to be a better person. He makes odd choices of course, but that’s drama. Is there anything else you can tell us about what’s coming up? Shawn: I will have sex with... |
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