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Above: On the cover of the June 26, 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
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Zach to the Future
Yay, Zach Can Swim! Thorsten Kaye Hits The Shore This Week On AMC
Soap Opera Digest
by Carolyn Hinsey, Published August 9, 2011
Thorsten Kaye joined AMC as troubled tycoon Zach Slater in 2004, but was cut loose in 2010 after a dustup over whether he would move to L.A. when the show headed west. He stayed on the East Coast with partner Susan Haskell (who was playing Marty on ONE LIFE TO LIVE at the time) and their two daughters, McKenna, 8, and Marlowe, 4, but returns this week for the reveal that Zach is very much alive. Kaye will commute to L.A. until the show wraps on broadcast nest month -- on much safer airplanes than Zach was flying.
Digest: How was your first day
back at AMC
after
almost a year away?
Kaye: I walked into the dressing room they gave me
and was full of
balloons. They all said, "Welcome back, Josh." I thought, "Well, look
at that. They spelled my name wrong."
Digest: Josh Duhamel -- that's funny. How
is Zach
back? Last we saw
him, he was on a plane that crashed into the ocean. Then they delivered
his clean, dry luggage to Kendall in a cave so she could read how much
he loved her in his private papers.
Kaye: Luckily, I always carry Secret Service
luggage.
Although I was
surprised to find out I had the time to keep a journal. I hope I called
it Kendall in the Wind.
Digest: Ha! How does Zach turn up alive?
Kaye: Apparently his plane hit the water and David
was scuba diving
right there. that's one way to ruin someone's scuba-diving vacation,
huh? I say, "David, remember when I told you that people were trying to
kill me? Well, it sure was lucky that you were in that water." 'Cause
he was right there! That's good. That's lucky.
Digest: Maybe David had a ZPS, a Zach
Positioning
System.
Kaye: Nice! Or he was looking for buried treasure.
Or
my journal.
Digest: How is Zach's reunion with Kendall?
Kaye: I haven't taped it yet, but I'm sure it will
be
very nice. If her
new boyfriend [Jordi Vilasuso's Griffin] is there, I hope he has a
shirt on.
Digest: You get to ride back in triumph and
bust up
that little romance.
Kaye: Honestly, it's not abut that. It's about going
back and seeing
this through to the end on ABC. I hope this online thing works out -- I
just don't know who will be part o fit. The dance cards haven't been
punched yet.
Digest: Have you been contacted yet?
Kaye: No. But I hope it works out great
for
all the people
who work at that studio. AMC is an institution. They deserve to have
jobs. I think the success of the move will have to do with what actors
are going, and who is writing it. It could be really good.
Digest: How is AMC going to wrap up your
story, then?
Kaye: I don't know. They are being very secretive
about it. If I knew,
I would tell you -- and then we could both get in trouble.