A bitter showdown between The Daring and the Stunning’s Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) on the December 13 episode leaves the way forward for their relationship in jeopardy.
Within the aftermath of Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) and Carter Walton’s (Lawrence Saint-Victor) company coup — swindling the Forresters out of their eponymous firm as payback for his or her deliberate cancellation of Hope’s clothes line, Hope for the Future — Ridge is lower than thrilled with the 2. “To have someone make the most of you on your personal private achieve is a troublesome factor to get previous,” begins Thorsten Kaye. “Ridge feels the one cause Carter would ever do it’s because Hope is sniffing round. She tousled [Ridge’s son] Thomas, after which she went after Carter. Hope’s line was failing, and it was being canceled, so she needed to get somebody in there to repair it. If the road had been getting cash, it by no means would have been canceled as a result of it’s a enterprise.”
Although Brooke initially confirmed allegiance to her husband by chiding Carter and Hope for his or her underhanded techniques, issues took a flip when Ridge has some selection phrases to explain Hope which are onerous to come back again from. “I attempted to play it the place it comes out of the frustration of the second, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not a pleasant factor to say about somebody’s child,” concedes Kaye.
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Nevertheless, there are different points between the 2 at play, Kaye factors out. “I don’t suppose that’s the factor that places Brooke over the sting,” he observes. “I believe the factor that places her over is Ridge sniffing round [ex-wife] Taylor [Rebecca Budig] once more. Brooke’s position was written very nicely on this — she stood by her man even after he insulted her daughter, after which she stood by her man till she couldn’t, and I do suppose that Taylor has rather a lot to do with that.”
Although Taylor Hayes, now performed by Rebecca Budig, is proving as soon as once more to be a thorn in “Bridge’s” facet, can Ridge actually return to her once more? “As an actor, you all the time should suppose that that there’s an opportunity,” explains Kaye. “You’ll be able to’t play 10 weeks from now. On this second in time, I believe that’s an actual risk. I believe these two are good collectively, and it’s good to have somebody that doesn’t need something aside from Ridge being glad together with her.”
Kaye and Budig’s real-life connection dates again to All My Kids, the place he performed Zach Slater and he or she was Greenlee Smythe. “I’ve recognized Rebecca for a very long time, however we’ve by no means actually labored collectively,” he relays. “On All My Kids, we might have a couple of scenes collectively however probably not a number of stuff as a result of there have been so many storylines happening on that present. So working together with her is nice; she’s ready and he or she brings one thing very grounded and sincere to this position.”
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However even when Ridge does develop nearer to Taylor once more, that doesn’t imply it’s actually over for Brooke and Ridge. “I believe these two love one another however at this level, possibly it’s probably not the difficulty right here,” gives Kaye. “One thing occurs the place he feels he’s betrayed by the lady that he loves and feels that he by no means knew her in any respect. And there’s this different lady who’s all the time sincere with him, who doesn’t have children along with his brother and his dad, and possibly she was all the time the suitable selection.”
No matter the place the story goes, Kaye, who will mark 11 years as Ridge on December 13, is trying ahead to no matter is forward. “It’s a enjoyable job,” he enthuses. “We chortle rather a lot. I don’t like saying that one thing is sort of a household as a result of I’ve one already, however we do care for one another. I all the time should toss something out to John McCook [Eric Forrester] as a result of he actually units the tone on the market. He’s the massive Papa Bear that everybody turns to, and he appears to all the time be in temper after 37 years on that present. He nonetheless loves it, and his enthusiasm rubs off on different individuals.”
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