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Above: On the cover of the June 26, 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
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At A Glance: Zach
Soap Opera Weekly
by Mara Levinsky, Published September 13, 2011
Zach’s alliance with David has been
rubbing Pine Valleyites the wrong way. This week, the fallout comes to
a head, leading to the discovery of a corpse, a shooting and a shocking
confession. Thorsten Kaye tells all -- sort of.
WEEKLY: Mid-week, Zach and Ryan are hauled down to
the police station
after some fisticuffs. Who won?
KAYE: I think Ryan got the worst of it. I have a
small cut on my face,
which I think came from shaving my beard off. That’s what I was
playing. Also, if you watch that episode, you’ll see that Ryan’s eyes
are a little puffy. I think that’s because he was crying for me to let
him go and stop beating him.
WEEKLY: He never stood a chance against you.
KAYE: He doesn’t, and he knows that. I’m telling
you, watch his eyes. I
don’t know if there are close-ups, but he mists up a little bit. I
don’t know if it’s because of the personal contact or just the fear
factor.
WEEKLY: Probably both. Then, later in the week,
everyone -- Zach, Ryan,
David, Griffin, Kendall, Greenlee -- end up at David’s lab, and the
you-know-what-hits the fan.
KAYE: Yes, David has a lot at stake right
now. He says two
more of his patients are ready to be revealed. Zach is
determined that that will happen. And there’s a fight that happens, and
it escalates, and people get hurt.
WEEKLY: Zach’s been a loose cannon since his return
from the grave. How
do you understand his personality shift?
KAYE: It makes sense, in terms of the
medical aspect of this;
that maybe whatever David has concocted as cure or a fix for someone
who may not make it otherwise is going to affect people in a certain
way. I mean, Dixie came back with a perfect haircut. Maybe that’s what
it does. And Zach came back with a full beard and [an attitude]. Maybe
there’s a hair product element of this that can be used on HSN after
the show goes away. Commerce. I’m always thinking. But I would say that
Zach changing and being angry that someone stole time from him, from
his kids, from his family… that would make you a little angry! And I
think on a very human level, Zach’s gotta feel that Kendall would be
better off with someone else; he was always putting her in danger.
Someone like a doctor, a good-looking, square-jawed doctor like that.
It doesn’t matter who you are; there’s always that fear that you’re not
good enough for somebody. That’s human nature.
WEEKLY: Let’s chat about the beard. Do you miss it?
KAYE: I liked having a beard, but it takes
a long time to get
through security at the airport. So, you know, leave an extra two hours
for the JFK airport security. My kids [McKenna, 8, and Marlowe, 4]
actually shaved it off.
WEEKLY: They did?
KAYE: Yeah, I went home for a couple of days and my
kids shaved my
beard off. It was a fun thing and we got to videotape it.
WEEKLY: Can you rate their work?
KAYE: Yeah, I was glad I wasn’t working
for a few days
[laughs].
Nah, it was good. It was just one of those moments. I thought
it was cool.
WEEKLY: How are the girls?
KAYE: They’re great! They’re here
right now. They’ve been out here for
the last two weeks, them and Susan. We’re going to Disneyland today.
Alicia and Willow, too. I like it there. But everyone is good, and I
really am happy that I got to go back and be part of the end of
this.