Kassie DePaiva was already recognized to cleaning soap audiences as Guiding Gentle‘s Chelsea Reardon when the chance to play Blair Cramer on One Life to Reside got here her method in 1993. “I had left Guiding Gentle in ’91, gone out to Los Angeles to attempt to make my method and perhaps do some nighttime stuff,” she recollects. “In that point interval, I had auditioned and screen-tested for an element on One other World — I believe it was a personality named Amanda — however I didn’t get it. After which this audition for Blair got here up and I believed, ‘Oh, wow, this is able to be nice. Do I need to transfer again to New York?’ Sure, I wished to, as a result of I used to be not in place in my private life with a wedding and I simply wished to work.”
On the time she auditioned for the present, DePaiva was unaware that the present was taking the character in a distinct path from her predecessor, Mia Korf. “I had no thought it was controversial till after I’d had a few callbacks,” she explains. “Somebody stated, ‘ you’re changing an Asian American actress.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ I didn’t even suppose I’d be thought-about, however three auditions later, I’m packing my luggage and transferring to New York and taking part in this character known as Blair and it modified my life.”