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Above: On the cover of the June 26, 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
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Interview
Carolyn's Corner
Soap Opera Weekly
by Carolyn Hinsey, Published June 26, 2007
This week's guest is Thorsten Kaye, who plays Zach on All My Children.
Carolyn: Are you happy you
re-signed your contract?
Thorsten: Yes. We have the
possibility to tell a
good story here.
Carolyn: Are you going to do that?
Thorsten: That's not up to me.
Carolyn: Some of the Zendall
fans are mad at me
because you and I did a Carolyn's Corner where we talked about Hannah
and
feelings Zach might still have for her. Apparently,
they just
want Zach and Kendall to be happy and hug their baby for the rest of
their
lives.
Thorsten: I have that at home;
that doesn't sound
too interesting to me as an actor. I think Zach wants
something different.
I wouldn't apologize for any of it. You need dramatic
structure.
To ignore problems is not dramatic. Are those fans upset with
Kendall,
too? About how she still has feelings for Ryan?
Because it's
the same thing. She has a child with Ryan, Zach had a child
with
Hannah. Kendall had a long time to figure this s--- out with
Ryan,
and she's still not over him. Still with the longing
looks.
I know he's good-looking, whatever, but all this
longing doesn't
make sense to me. If she wants to be with the guy, be with
the guy.
But you certainly can't judge a man who had a child with Hannah wanting
to see what happened.
Carolyn: Do you think Zach gave Hannah the
sperm to have
another baby?
Thorsten: For what? So they
could make another giant
baby with a British accent? No. There are too many
holes in
that story. First of all, I don't think she was a good mother
to
the first kid. Now she says she didn't know this, didn't know
that.
It took her 3 1/2 years to get to Pine Valley? Did she swim
from
Asia?
Carolyn: Is Hannah really gone?
Thorsten: Yes. But that doesn't
mean she won't come
back.
Carolyn: Tell me how Zach is involved in
JR's kidnapping
this week.
Thorsten: Well, Junior fakes his own
kidnapping and, you
know, they ask for $100 million. So his father goes to the
richest
man in town, who happens to be me. He has to go to
the devil
himself to get the money. So I say, "Okay, here's $100
million, but
as collateral I want all the stock in your company. I want
all your
money. I want your house, I want your cars, I want everything
you
own." But Junior is in a pickle, because he told his dad that
he
was kidnapped by somebody, and his dad actually stood up for him and
helped
him with everything. And that's not going to end well for
them.
Carolyn: Oh, I like that. Will
Zach be working a
lot with Adam?
Thorsten: Yes, which I am really
enjoying. Penny, our
stage manager, always says that working with David Canary is a
privilege;
I didn't know what that meant until I started working with
him. What
a pleasure. Not just that he's a great actor and is always
there
and all that, but he's a great person. You talk to this
guy...did
you know he was drafted by the Denver Broncos?
Carolyn: No! You know, he's got,
like, 11 Emmys.
Thorsten: And I know why. He
wants to make the scene
work, not just his part of the scene. Sometimes in this
medium we
get so busy and so frustrated with what our characters do that we
forget
how our scenes fit into the play. As a stage actor, David
understands
that and he's concerned about it. You know, not just making
the scene
work, but making sure that we don't create gaps for later. I
like
that.
Carolyn: Is Ryan involved in any of the
kidnapping story?
Or is he too busy with all of his wives?
Thorsten: Yeah, what's that
about? Is he Mormon?
I'm not sure, actually. I'm just waiting for Rebecca Budig to
come
back to make this really interesting.