One Life to Live News & Gossip
News for the week of 08-Mar-2010
OLTL’s One Life, Many Voices Foundation is the gift that keeps giving to survivors and loved ones living in Mississippi and New Orleans, following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Recently, the foundation was able to donate pianos to worthy schools down there. A grand piano, bought in the late Phil Carey’s (Asa) name, will go to New Orleans’ Le Petit Theatre. Three Yamaha pianos last week went to Mississippi’s West Marion Primary School in Foxworth, Bay High School-Bay St. Louis, and the Boys and Girls Club in Pass Christian. The foundation’s CD helped raise funds for school scholarships in the arts, as well as supplement musical instruments, since January 2006.
All Kelley Missal (Danielle) really wanted to do was get back in the acting game. She’d modeled, been in a few commercials and even on Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central before, then took a three-year break. When she had her mom check into re-entering the acting field, she immediately hit an OLTL audition, which landed her front and center in a major teen love story (with Matthew) and fending for herself with intimidating parental figures Tea and Todd. Lucky for Missal, her parents are played by generous, gifted actors who really live their roles to the hilt and take care to make every scene come alive with truth of emotion. Missal has nothing but warm thoughts about the actress (Florencia Lozano) who plays her mom and the brilliance that is her on-screen dad, Trevor St. John. “It's kind of crazy. I'm so in awe of them and what they do,” Missal gushed. “When I'm working with them it just raises the level on all the scenes. Their intensity is there, and I feed off of their energy and their commitment to their characters. Florencia and Trevor have taught me so much about how to be in the moment and in the character. It's amazing how Trevor takes the words off the script and completely transforms them into what Todd is. I mean, he can say anything and make it into Todd. And when I'm working with Florencia, she is Tea; she is my mother. She'll do things like touch my hair or rub my back. She'll do things that are very motherly to me, and it's so easy to be in the moment with her. It's almost like not even pretending she is my mom; it's like she is my mom.” –ABC.com interview, last week
Former Bachelorettecontestant and boyfriend of AMC actress Chrishell Stause (Amanda), Graham Bunn, tweeted a congratulations March 1st to a pal of his for landing a contract role on OLTL. Nobody knows if it’s Aiden Turner (ex-Aidan, AMC) or someone else.
Sierra Rose is played by twin girls Audrina and Sophia Miscione from Staten Island. The five-month-old twins saw fame by accident. A cousin was enrolling her son for acting at a management agency when she noticed OLTL’s call for identical twin babies, and thought of the Miscione twins.
Gossip for the week of 08-Mar-2010
The OLTL casting department will audition actors for two big roles, one – according to audition scripts – for Reed, who’s probably hankering for the love of a woman who got away (or ran away), and Rodney, who spent time in a sanitarium and wouldn’t talk for years. There’s a woman and a murder involved too.
I know Gigi’s supposed to be the heroine in this Sierra Rose custody battle, but I’m actually rooting for anybody else to have that baby but Ms. Sanctimonious, lip-licker. She’s been a little too high and mighty (yes, even against soulless schemer Stacy, may she rest in peace) for my liking. She railed against Stacy’s unborn baby, even so much as wishing for “it” to die in uterus. Now she’s Mother Madonna championing its rights?!
Kelly’s son (maybe with Kevin, maybe not) Zane may show up soon.
Forget giving Gina Tognoni her casting wish – Kelly and John – she’ll have to make do with Todd and several chemistry tests. TPTB are focused on having her interact primarily with the other Cramer women.
TPTB are also focused on breaking the hearts of fans devoted to Jessica and Brody, and Cristian and Layla. Remember Cristian’s David Fumero naively said – at the start of Jessica’s electro-shock brain-setback – that his character wasn’t still carrying a torch. Yet, this week, guess what? Cris still carries a torch.
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