Ryan Gosling says soap opera stars don’t get the recognition they deserve and credits Deidre Hall’s possession by the Devil on ‘Days of Our Lives’ as one of his first acting inspirations

The John/Marlena/Stefano saga followed by Passions was a formative experience for me when I was 10. I barely had time to do my chores during summer break!

Marlena is a GOAT. I grew up with Days of our Lives in the background of my childhood. Those storylines were crazy!

Try having it be one of your earliest memories *and being a Greek Orthodox kid in Greece*. It was right up there with MOTW episodes in the X-Files and Kimberly in Melrose Place blowing up the building, it was terrifying.

When my mom was pregnant with me she was absolutely miserable. Her feet swelled so bad she couldn't walk and had terrible back pain, so she watched a lot of TV and Days was her favorite. I was named after Marlena but she spelled it wrong on my birth certificate.

Eight hour a day, day job. Get a few days off if you don’t have a Shoot. Get to watch your kids grow up.

This brought back memories. Any show that has the writing and acting that can suck in a 10 year old, 34 year old, and 70 year old all at the same time is exceptional.

I was really into that in 8th grade and got my first middle school girlfriend because my mom recorded the show on VHS daily. I used to sit with some girls at lunch and tell them what happened on previous episode. Then one asked if she could borrow it and. I said no she'll need it tomorrow and she asked if I could bring it over to watch. I watched it from the possession until Kirsten was  also playing that "ugly" woman.

Neighbours or Home & Away, they’ve got to do one before they’re allowed to leave.

Yeah, Joey Tribbiani got his start there and look at where he is now!

there is a 60 minutes segment on this. Obviously it starts with a good acting school

I saw Robert Patinson once in The bold and beautiful

In the UK soap acting is nearly always dreadful.

I read it as "..most of THEM Australian stars ..." in the most 'murican accent.

"Like sands through the hourglass..."

Same. F****** Stefano.

As a kid I was only allowed to watch TV if it was whatever my parents were watching, which meant most of the time it was Days. I had to program the VCR is record whatever I was watching on Toonami and eventually I'd end up with a backlog of VHS tapes of random episodes. As soon as we got a DVD player I bought Gundam Wing with my allowance, it was way easier that way.

I have the Young and the Restless theme song on my sleep playlist. I just added it recently and my wife immediately recognized it.

I frequently listen to Another World’s into from the late 80’s which came on after DOOL.

Ditto. How many of us had to sit through her in a coffin for months?

saaaaaaaaaaame

The whole Stephen A. Smith thing makes me so happy.

Aahaha maybe he watches and it reminded him

Have you seen Yesterday yet? He's awesome!

Have you seen Station Eleven? I will watch anything that man does.

He's in Ryan Coogler's new X-Files!

I loved him in Yesterday, but it weirded me out how he kind of looks like Russell Brand.

Ryan Gosling could NEVER pull off Smell The Fart acting. No matter how many episodes of Breaker High he was in.

I find thr more people complain about Supernatural's later season, the less they appreciate camp. There was a huge tone change to the show post season 5, but I can appreciate something that's campy af. Jensen really did hold that show together with sheer force of will.

Truly, he is the master of the dramatic

I don’t really follow DOOL that much, but don’t they have one of the bigger gaps between recording and airing in all of soaps? Like, a year difference?

I was a 90s kid, didn’t miss much school but made it a habit to VHS tape record every episode so I could watch it after school. All it took was one summer break at grandmas house to get me hooked

i mean the thing about soap opera writing, acting, and direction is that they're really not aiming for the same target as many other forms of media. whether or not we enjoy the final product, it is executed exactly as intended and ultimately pleases an audience that maybe just doesn't include us.

If anything, it shows how good an actors chops are when they can really go above and beyond with a mediocre script. A trait that can serve them well for the rest of their careers.

Soap opera writing must be cringe because of who it’s written for - conventionally “good” writing does not serve the purposes soap opera is made for.

She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers!

Here’s a part with acting. https://youtu.be/JH7Uev8ZRog?si=CgRp1mpvt9N_FRrr

Um, yeah. Stellar acting.

😅 Thank you I've never seen it, and now I wanna go on a YouTube deepdive

Yes!!!! Finally some love for The Young & The Restless ... had to scroll way too far. That Eva Longoria storyline was pretty wild back in the day. First time I watched Planet of the Apes 3 and unexpectedly saw a young Victor Newman hanging with monkys, my jaw hit the floor

Frankly, I think it would have done Chalamet a world of good to do a year on a soap when he was younger. Deirdre Hall and Susan Lucci have had to learn more lines in a year than he'll probably have to learn in his lifetime. Theater folk also work 7 days a week and sometimes 2x on Saturdays... but it is the same script every day.

Chalamaladingdong as The Nerve likes to call him

Let it die omg

No. He’s perfect and dreamy and he’s everybody’s boyfriend.

MBJ’s role on AMC was originally played by Chadwick Boseman. Chadwick was only on briefly before being replaced by MBJ. Amanda Seyfried also played MBJ’s love interest. Buffy stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Michelle Tractenberg were also on the show.

Kelly Ripa said this to him right after he won his Oscar he just hugged her lol

I just came upon a scene in a YouTube clip where he was opposite Amanda Seyfried. A very antagonistic scenario.

It was also Sci-fi. John Delancie, who played Q on Star Trek had a role on Days where he played an eccentric inventor married to one of the main characters. They wrote him out of the show by having his character invent a time machine. He returned from the future years later with an android clone of his wife. Then his real wife got kidnapped by people from the future who were trying to retrieve the android. Soaps can get crazy.

Not often. Except for when it was. In the mid 2000s a meteor fell and brought alien twins to earth, who looked like humans. One left and the other stayed as a normal cast member and eventual they just pretended they were humans for the rest of the show.

Took care of my grandma for a summer after she had surgery. She got me watching All My Children. Then I recorded it every day for two years because I needed to know if Bianca would get her baby back. I totally understand.

Hey girl

I will never forget how when Sarah Michelle Gellar was on AMC she got the Emmy faster and sooner than Susan Lucci did...

some people don't consider the daytime emmys as legitimate. some even criticize Whoopie Goldbergs EGOT recognition because of such. all of the awards are nonsense anyways(unless something I like wins then they are totally legit!)

I definitely think there's a case of them getting the wrong kind of recognition. Being a mainstay soap opera star at the end of the day is a LOT more work than most other acting careers, and you're often really limited or restricted on how you can really flex your acting chops. Yeah the daytime emmys were essentially a way for them to fluff their own feathers, but I think a part of that is because at the end of the day what they do is a lot more endurance oriented than other acting gigs.

They get plenty of recognition **within their part of the industry. There has always been a hierarchy.** They don't get it outside of it - it is still "less than" or "lower class". It is still a big deal when you talk about people transitioning from soap operas to night time television, let alone movies. It used to be unheard of when TV actors went to movies. I'm old enough to remember when it was a BFD and kind of a shock when Bruce Willis did Moonlighting and Die Hard at the same time. When people were a little skeptical about Ron Howard, a tv staple, started directing movies - and not made for TV movies! And honestly, once you were lucky enough to make the transition from TV to movies? You NEVER went back. Primetime was seen as better than Daytime as well. You hardly EVER saw a major movie star agree to do even primetime TV show, unless they were older and no longer really hired by studios and they needed the income (thinking of someone like Barbara Stanwyck here.) It was still regarded as a step down, and soap operas DEFINITELY were "less than" primetime tv. Premium channels like HBO, and later, the streamers changed that a bit. Maybe startng with Sex in the City - but SJP had roots in TV and theater and was executive producing the project. Now we have Oscar winners (Matthew McConaughey, Jodie Foster, Billy Bob Thornton) willing to do streaming television because they have such short seasons (8 episodes vs. 24) The stigma has lessened a lot. The fact that it is still a big deal? It was a major topic when Shrinking started. Jason Segal and Brett Goldstein have both been asked, with some incredulity, "How did you get HARRISON FORD????" They never ever thought they would. Michael B. Jordan even acknowledged this backstage at the Oscars, that daytime soap people don't get a lot of respect that they deserve. Sure, crazy pants storylines, but those people have a WORK ETHIC and stamina that should be respected and acknowledged.

No they definitely do not get the recognition for the sheer amount of work they constantly put in. Daytime Emmys aren’t nearly as prestigious as Primetime Emmys, and they also aren’t included in the Golden Globes, People’s Choice, any other major awards that exist out there. And they’re constantly being dogged on and assumed to be bad actors by people who have never watched.

While true, it's the daytime emmys. Winning one isn't recognition. Saying you won an Emmy, and then having it be a daytime Emmy, is like saying you fought a bear, and it turns out you punched a college mascot once.

I think he moreso means that Soap Opera is a joke. Its an insult. Hell, the Saw series has a lot of its fans like it because of its "Cringe ass soap opera elements that are silly as hell" ironically :P Its seen by a lottttt of people as a lesser form of entertainment. I remember them being joked about like how we insult AI slop like "Soap operas are just mass produced slop for the masses" and stuff. a "lowest standard trash meant for aging moms at home alone in the mornings with low standards because its 9am and nothing else is on" or whatever

Doing good work with bad material is still praiseworthy. There's a dude in town that makes scuptures and things out of found metals and trash. I bought a motorcycle he made and gave it to my dad for Christmas. Its made of spoons and a spark plug and a bunch of other c***, but its still the centrepiece on dad's coffee table and he brings it up every time I see him.  Collecting toenails is one thing. But elevating those toenails to something people enjoy is quite another.