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| Kassie DePaiva joins Days | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 24 2014, 12:33 PM (18,559 Views) | |
| angie37 | Jan 25 2014, 07:58 PM Post #221 |
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:iagree: This country bumpkin takes offense... :toetap: |
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| ladyofthelake | Jan 25 2014, 07:59 PM Post #222 |
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I'm with the "give her a chance" folks. I loved Blair on OLTL (and if Kassie can take the role over from an actress who is of Asian descent and make it her own, then shoot!). "Common looking?".SERIOUSLY? I want her body instead of mine! Girl's got a damn good figure. COUNTRY BUMPKIN????? I know some pretty smart, sharp people from the country. Maybe that comment pisses me off since I AM a country bumpkin who actually does pretty well. I'll wager there are a lot of "country bumpkins" in Hollywood who are doing great, thank you very much. Rant over. Maybe it is a miscast. Who knows? But I'm not going to make predictions just because she's not Charlotte Ross. Character was good, but for some reason, she rubbed me the wrong way, so it doesn't bother me to have a recast at all. Life goes on. If she can do it, then kudos. I just hope people aren't so adamant that it's not Charlotte Ross that they're going to close their eyes to any possible newness and good that KdP could possibly bring to the roll. People have listed various characters who play parent and child and the silly closeness of ages, so why is this different? |
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| ladyofthelake | Jan 25 2014, 08:01 PM Post #223 |
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Oh, yeah, JKJ could be considered a "hillbilly" since he grew up in the Ozarks, although the "town" he grew up in has more than 100,000 people...........I'm sorry. That comment just pissed me off. |
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| freedom | Jan 25 2014, 08:04 PM Post #224 |
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I have a bad feeling that they brought Drake back to further destroy John and Marlena as a couple either through Marlena not forgiving him or John moving on with someone else, or both: And that will be a massive failure. As you said I've seen no signs that they are even sharing scenes together let alone working towards a recoscillation. New magazine articles don't give me much hope either. It went from Drake saying that J&M fans are getting what they want to "I don't know where this story is going" which is usually a bad sign and might mean a storyline change. Do they really think fans will be happy with John and Marlena divorcing and John moving on? Or Marlena staying with Roman? As long as both have been on canvas for the last nearly 30 years they've never been truly accepted with others, even when they have been temporarily apart, and I doubt it's gonna start now. John's not like EJ who has been loved with other women while Sami has been on canvas (Nicole, Abby). I have a bad feeling about this. A John and Marlena breakup won't be a popular or welcomed storyline. At least fans want Hope to move on, and EJ and Sami have as many haters as they so lovers, so EJabby having sex and getting a positive response was expected. J&M are not like that. I've generally enjoyed this show for the last few years but cannot bear to see the last remaining supercouple fall. Like I said at least most fans want Hope moving on. That's how I can console myself to Bo and Hope ending their relationship. |
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| ladyofthelake | Jan 25 2014, 08:08 PM Post #225 |
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Just curious, but what do John and Marlena have to do with Eve? :shrug: |
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| dooldooldool | Jan 25 2014, 08:09 PM Post #226 |
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I wonder if Charlotte Ross balked at the new economics of daytime. Perhaps she realized that the pay is nothing like it was back in her heyday and that they work a breakneck filming schedule with no re-takes. Sure I will miss seeing flashbacks of OriginalEve with Julie or Jennifer or her parents, but honestly, there are very few castmembers she overlaps with, so flashbacks aren't really all that helpful. I hope that KDP glams it up a bit and brings a haughty, narcissistic, queen-bee type of Eve back to Salem. The actress, while obviously gorgeous, always strikes me as earthy, plain, and basic....... hmm, a perfect match to be Jordan's mother. Could Jordan be the love child of Eve Donovan and Frankie Brady? |
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| granolagirl | Jan 25 2014, 08:21 PM Post #227 |
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#SorryNotSorry
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I guess that puts me in the five percent, lol. |
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| Will&Sonny | Jan 25 2014, 08:25 PM Post #228 |
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Yes, she did -- but that tweet could easily be read as a veiled reminder to everyone that, "Kassie, honey, let's not forget that you only got this job because I wasn't available because I am in such high demand." I'm not speculating about Charlotte Ross's intentions one way or another, because it's pointless to do so. But I don't think that it's a stretch to conclude that her intentions were less than innocent. Either way, her second tweet -- the one where she assures her fans that she will return to Days (presumably as Eve) eventually -- was, at the very least, unnecessary and poorly timed. Frankly, if I were one of her fans (instead of just being someone who couldn't care less either way), I'd find it rude of her to give me false hope when, in all likelihood, she knows that she'll never be returning to the role of Eve now that it has been recast. |
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| Drew | Jan 25 2014, 08:34 PM Post #229 |
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I have to wonder if the people kicking up all this fuss actually were watching the show in 1991, or just the best-of snipits from Youtube. I took Ross' tweet as a polite way of telling pushy fans "Thanks, but go away." Not as a implication she intends to steal back a role from a soap legend in between primetime and movie gigs. And is it confirmed that DePaiva will be using her natural accent? |
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| ladyofthelake | Jan 25 2014, 08:35 PM Post #230 |
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I don't think fans should be led on, either. And, truly, sometimes I think fans need to know that things aren't going to go their way, but actors can let them know WHERE they can be seen, thank fans for their support, and let them know that they are doing new activities. (Basically, these are my choices, and I hope you support me in them!). I hate it when actors play games. |
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| Will&Sonny | Jan 25 2014, 08:46 PM Post #231 |
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I'm choosing to pretend that the "common looking" comment was a hallucination that was caused by the same mysterious (and quite serious) condition that caused me to hallucinate that someone on this site had dared to call Kate Mansi "Plain Jane pretty at best" a week or two ago. |
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| DiMera87 | Jan 25 2014, 09:08 PM Post #232 |
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I hate to use the ole go to "Bring Jack back" stuff, but Kassie and Matthew Ashford would be FIRE. And if the Eve recast is a little hard to take I think that could really help things out. I don't think TPTB plan on ever bringing Jack again this time, although he did get his bullshit death that left room for an opening. That cyborg Roman seeing the body doesn't mean anything. But really Jack is a better version of Todd so I could really just see those two working out well if they wrote Jack as Jack instead of the comedy sideshow he became at times under certain writers. Now I can't help but hope for it. I'm not sure if this recast will work out, but I gotta give it a chance. I know if it doesn't work, it will not be Kassie's fault. |
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| Panda Panda | Jan 25 2014, 09:21 PM Post #233 |
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I'm in the "I don't see the big deal with the recast" boat. Eve Donovan hasn't been on canvas for over 21 years and most current days fans would have no idea who she is or that she was played by Charlotte Ross, so KDP being cast in the role isn't exactly going to ruin the character or anything like that. The character is more or less a blank slate at this point. KDP is wonderful actress who can bring some actual talent (and possible some of her OLTL fans :P) over to Days. I look forward to seeing her on screen again. |
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| blueskies | Jan 25 2014, 09:32 PM Post #234 |
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admittedly i was not watching, since i was 5, but since i'm looking at her actions now i don't see how that has anything to do with it. Intentional or not, I do think the effect of saying "don't worry I'll be back at Days again" is a bitchy move. And just for the record, I'm only commenting on these specific actions, not the woman herself. For all I know she could be the nicest person in the world and this was unintentional. (And no, I don't care about KDP one way or the other b/c I've only seen her a handful of times). |
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| Sindacco | Jan 26 2014, 01:24 AM Post #235 |
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Gotta love Alex. |
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| thepadange | Jan 26 2014, 05:02 AM Post #236 |
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If we think that way, EJ (born in 1997) has 2 children (born 2007 and 2009) ;), Sami has to be in jail for doing THAT. BTW, even if Brady would be played by the 21 yo actor I wouldn't see a problem, even in real life there are pairs with 30-40 years age difference. I know this thread is not about that but sorry couldn't resist. Speaking of KDP as Eve, I don't think age matters. She is not too old to play Eve as some are saying, but maybe Charles Shaughnessy is and looks too young, so let make-up department do their job LOL, in case they bring him back. That said I'm still not so very sure I can buy KDP as Eve. I think I could see her as Kristen recast (not that I'd want a Kristen recast if there is even a small possibility that ED will come back). It's just different type or so, I guess. But let's wait and see. BTW, I'm very impressed of how huge her OLTL fan base is and how supportive they are. Edited by thepadange, Jan 26 2014, 05:21 AM.
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| thepadange | Jan 26 2014, 05:08 AM Post #237 |
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double post Edited by thepadange, Jan 26 2014, 05:21 AM.
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| jwsel | Jan 26 2014, 05:54 AM Post #238 |
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I know time is bizarre in Salem, but for Eve to now be in her late-40s/early 50s, Shane would have to be 70 or older. Eve was younger than Charlotte Ross' actual age, and without SORASing, should just be 41 (Eve turned 18 in 1990). Granted, the show already screwed up Shane's age when they made Eve Gabrielle's daughter. The original idea that she was Emma's daughter actually fit with Shane being in his early- to mid-30s. Emma had supposedly "died" two years before Shane arrived in Salem in 1984, but she could have gotten pregnant when she and Shane were in their late teens. It was established that Shane and Emma had grown up together and were expected to marry from a young age, so a teen pregnancy could be reconciled with that history. Shane not knowing about Eve could be explained by the fact that Emma was from a very "proper" British family with ties to the monarchy, so her family could have kept the pregnancy secret. But when the show changed Eve's mother and made her a product of a fling with Gabrielle after Emma died, that added another 10 or so years that had to have passed between Emma's "death" and Shane's arrival in Salem. That instantly aged him to around 40, even though Charles Shaughnessy was still in his early 30s. (Even if you ignore Shane saying Emma died two years before he came to Salem, Eve still couldn't have been conceived until Shane was in his mid-20s at the earliest, because he didn't join the ISA until after he graduated from Cambridge and Emma "died" while he was in the ISA.) I don't know KDP or how much younger than her actual age she can play, but it just seems like a strange decision. When you add in the fact that Mary Beth Evans is the same age as KDP and Judi Evans is younger, and the show has shown no interest in writing for their veteran women in that age group, I don't understand why the show didn't recast Eve with an actress in her mid- to late-30s. |
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| Will&Sonny | Jan 26 2014, 06:05 AM Post #239 |
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Age is just a number. Especially in soap operas. And especially in Salem. |
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| sillibella | Jan 26 2014, 06:28 AM Post #240 |
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I've been a fan of KDP since the late 90's. I was just a kid but I fell in love with Todd and Blair's storyline on OLTL and she was a constant favorite of mine even when the writing took a nose dive off and on because she always did her best. Up until a few years ago, I didn't even know how serious a fanbase T&B and KDP had but most of her fans have been with her for decades and they are very devoted. Since most of them, I'm assuming, aren't big followers of Days and thereby don't know who Eve is, they aren't going to be all that nitpicky about how she does as the character, Eve. It's sort of a positive and negative, I guess, depending on how you look at it. Anyway, I do believe that she will bring quite a few viewers to Days, if the reaction from past couple days on FB and Twitter are any indication. I understand that many longtime fans of Days and Eve are upset with KDP taking over the role even though they may really appreciate her and there's absolutely no way that she will be pleasing everybody with her portrayal but I know that I'm very happy that she's going to be back on TV and playing a character that isn't completely impossible for her to portray well, imo. I can't imagine that she isn't researching the hell out of Eve and other characters on Days so she can really do her best. I hope she wins over some of the nay-sayers out there. :) |
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