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Above: On the cover of the June 26, 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
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Chatting with Thorsten Kaye (Zach, AMC)
Carolyn's Corner
Soap Opera Weekly
Published June 24, 2008
Thorsten:
I saw your cover with Beth Ehler [coming to
All My Children].
They still haven't decided who she's going to play. I gave
them my
idea, but no one listens to me anymore.
Carolyn: What was your idea?
Thorsten: I suggested that Ryan take over Tempo,
because he's got nothing to do. Greenlee and Kendall get
together
and buy him Tempo, and with it comes this
editor. The first
thing she does is go up to the casino, because she thinks there's
something
fishy going on. That's Beth. [Zach says], "You need
to stay
away from this stuff." And then Ryan, or course, says, "She can do
whatever
she wants." Then Zach gets a little something going with Beth, and Ryan
even gets a little something. Greenlee and Kendall both get jealous,
and
they're the ones who brought her in the first place!
Carolyn: She'd be playing a new character?
Thorsten: Yeah, I don't like people coming back and
playing
someone we already know. And I wanted to bring the Tempo thing
in
because it's nice to have a magazine on the canvas. It's already
established
and it's already got sets.
Carolyn: I love a good magazine storyline. So, tell
me about
Zach kicking Richie's ass this week after figuring out it was Richie
who
buried Zach and Greenlee alive in the bunker.
Thorsten: Zach finds out it was Richie because he
hears his
voice and starts putting it together. He goes to visit him in jail.
Young
Zach has a little bit of power, a little money, and that takes care of
a lot of badges and paperwork. So they let Zach into the jail to see
him.
It was supposed to be me walking in and just hitting him, which seemed
a little juvenile, because Aidan comes and hits him and somebody else
comes
and hits him, and after a while it gets very cartoony with everybody
just
hitting this guy. So they allowed me to bring in a bat kind of hidden
in
my jacket. I kneel down to him and say, "You know what's coming." And
we
have a weird kind of father/son moment where he knows he screwed up, so
now it's time to pay the price. He gets beaten up pretty good, but you
never see it, which I thought would be a better choice. You see us
kneeling
down and the next thing you see is him on the floor, bloody. Leave it
to
the imagination. The imagination is always better than what I can come
up with.
Carolyn: Just like when people have sex on soaps.
Pan to the
fireplace, then show them in bed the next morning.
Thorsten: On, my God, pan to the fireplace and pan
right back,
and I'm done (laughs). Make it look like time
passed.
Carolyn: Go to commercial. "Give me three minutes of
Febreze
and I'm done."
Thorsten: Three minutes? Thank you. You flatter me.
Carolyn: So this revelation about the bunker leads
to Richie
leaving town?
Thorsten: This leads to Richie trying to leave town.
I don't
think he's going to make it.
Carolyn: Hint! Are you presenting at the Emmys?
Thorsten: No. They don't want me. Cameron Mathison
is hosting
and they want Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams [Angie and Jesse].
Carolyn: That surprises me. I think fans are going
to be upset
that you aren't presenting.
Thorsten: I don't kow. I would have thought they
would have
liked to have seen Alicia [Minshew, Kendall] and I together, but I
guess
not. It's okay. I'm still going because Susan [Haskell; One
Life to
Live's Marty) is presenting.
Carolyn: So you can go to all the parites and not
have to worry
about presenting.
Thorsten: Yeah. It will be just like when I do
present. "There's
rehearsal at 3 o'clock? Okay. I'll be there. Sure."