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News for the week of 10-Jun-2014
Cady McClain (Kelly; ex-Dixie, AMC) was all over the place last week doing press for her new memoir, “Murdering My Youth” and her new soap gig. SoapsAbout.com’s Paulette Cohn went over the usual hot topics with the actress, including the process of winning the recast role Cynthia Watros had to leave on Y&R. The recast call happened right around the time McClain had wrapped on a film with her husband Jon Lindstrom (Kevin, GH), so she had enough material from that to show the casting director. “I also put together a reel with some of the best work from AMC's last year and sent that over. I waited a few weeks and then I got the call. That was it. It was really one of the best ways you can audition ever.”
Michael Fairman really got in-depth with McClain for his June 5th interview, as is his trademark. To his credit, and hers, she really opened up a lot about the inner workings of going there time and time again as an actress on AMC and later, for her memoir. Her memoir started off as a kind of third-person fiction until she got closer at the urging of some trusted people, “and then in the last year people kept pushing me to make it my story. That was really terrifying. I kept feeling like I had to warn everybody in the first few pages. I would be saying, ‘Don’t worry if this upsets you!’ I put all these codicils in the front of the book to sort of make it OK for everyone, and that was a real process. Probably the last year of writing the book was the hardest. I wrote it because I had to, because I lived with this story inside me for so long, and for some reason writing it was not just cathartic in the way it released it, because I have been dealing with it and releasing it for my entire life. For me it was about putting the personal into an artistic form, especially when putting it into words. It becomes a story that no longer belongs to me; it belongs to the world.”
For decades before her true story would come out, McClain would live with the terrible secrets of her not-so-idyllic childhood, a dependent mom, a sexually abusive dad, the financial betrayals, the alcoholism. Playing love scenes proved to be nightmarish, but playing them with some understanding co-stars balanced it all out. Here’s where the magic of Tad & Dixie came in. “My very first love scene on TV was with Michael Knight (Tad, AMC). I was stiff as a board and I was terrified, and this is one of the reasons I will be so grateful to Michael ‘till the day I die. He was always incredibly intuitive and sensitive to me as a young girl. He was incredibly kind. He understood, and that helped me a great deal.” Another time, a stunt coordinator saw her terror and saw her through some tough beats in a story that required her to be manhandled. Even now, after the book and the healing, McClain still approaches love scenes with some trepidation. Here’s where the Emmy-winning veteran and gentleman Peter Bergman (Jack) eases her transition. “… thank god for Peter! Peter is a total gentleman, and we had these conversations. And this is the thing … I sought out the help of good men. Good men will help you get through this crap. So thank God for the good men here, and at home, who allowed me to have my fear and work through my fear. The whole point is… you’ve got to get to the other side! I don’t want to stay stuck in hell. I like sex! I don’t want to live as a victim of one experience.”
For the details of Cady McClain’s sexual abuse, check out Soap Opera Network. Its publisher/editor-in-chief, Errol Lewis, posted June 2 a recent clip from ET about the actress’s new book and what it took to get her here.
Gossip for the week of 10-Jun-2014
On May 18, Highlight Hollywood’s Tommy Lightfoot Garrett urged fans to focus on the real problem at hand, the executive producer Jill Farren Phelps whom he blames for the wrongful firings and historically dismal ratings. His accusations, based on insider knowledge, are chilling to read. An excerpt: “Just last week, Firing Phelps realized that she made a massive mistake in letting go one of the show’s popular and talented actors. She approached this actor to return. However, she made a colossal error of judgment. Her arrogance is the size of the Grand Canyon, and she made a terrible offer, and not only was she quickly rebuffed, but she was told that it is her incompetence in producing the show and bad writing and bad treatment of the show’s actor, for the reason the show is now losing millions of viewers. Jill Farren Phelps is in real danger now of losing her job. Her allies are now running out of excuses.”
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