Kyle Lowder is returning to Days of our Lives as Rex Brady on April 10 after a year-and-a-half absence. For the actor, who additionally serves because the early morning anchor of the CBS affiliate KTVN broadcast in Reno, Nevada, the possibility to come back again to Salem was a welcome one.
“I used to be going to L.A., as I do each two to a few months to get my fill of Southern California and see my pals and reconnect,” begins Lowder of how his go to took place. “I used to be in contact with Ron [Carlivati, then-head writer] and coincidentally, virtually serendipitously, he had an concept for Rex to make an look due to the storyline along with his mom on the present, Kate [Roberts, Lauren Koslow]. So, I acquired to go to L.A. and spend some high quality time with pals, see folks that I’ve identified for many years who had been thought-about skilled household, and it was per week of enterprise and pleasure.”
Throughout Lowder’s first stint on Days, he performed Brady Black from 2000 to ’05. The present rehired him in 2018 as Rex Brady, and he has been showing on and off since. This time round, he was thrilled to see that his scenes had been along with his on-screen dad and mom, Kate and Roman Brady (Josh Taylor), the place Rex assures them that he’s doing simply nice following his current automobile crash. “I’ve identified Lauren and Josh since I used to be a literal teenager,” he factors out. “I simply love them as folks, I really like them as actors, and I feel we work extraordinarily nicely collectively. I really like the chemistry that we’ve, and I used to be so completely satisfied to see their faces and to work with them once more.”
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That the cleaning soap continues to include Rex for pop-ins could be very particular to Lowder. “I don’t take it as a right,” he says. “I’ve been advised a number of occasions, in numerous methods, by a number of folks operating the present that I’m very a lot part of the material of Days of our Lives. They’ve at all times discovered methods to maintain me part of the storylines, and that’s one thing which means the world to me.”
1 / 4 of a century after he first appeared on the present, the joy of doing it hasn’t waned, Lowder shares. “Each time I drive to the studio, I at all times have flashes of my 19-year-old self driving to the studio for the primary time,” he explains. “Days of our Lives was my first job. It was the primary time I used to be driving to work to receives a commission as knowledgeable actor. I used to be 19 once I began, and I used to be 43 once I shot these episodes. All these years later, I nonetheless felt like I used to be driving to a spot that appears like house to me, and then you definately stroll via the doorways of the studio to acquainted sights and sounds and smells and faces, and it’s like driving a motorbike. I verify in, go to my dressing room, get into wardrobe, be taught the traces, run the traces, and exit to the set. I didn’t skip a beat. I didn’t really feel any rust in anyway. It’s so acquainted to me.”
Which is saying quite a bit, contemplating he hasn’t been appearing quite a bit in recent times. In 2023, Lowder moved to Nevada to be nearer to his daughter, Isabella, 15, and pivoted from performing to information. “I’ve loads of expertise connecting to an viewers via the medium of tv,” he notes. “That was very, very useful by way of my transition from scripted tv to broadcast information. Once I sit at that anchor desk, I’m nonetheless speaking to an viewers via a digital camera lens, and that’s one thing that I’ve been doing for literal a long time now. So the transition, by way of the TV side of it, was very snug for me. I feel that the educational curve was that this isn’t scripted tv, and I needed to be taught the nuances and the ins and outs of this business. However I’ve been doing it for nearly two years now, and that has develop into second nature as nicely, which is nice.”
However utilizing a teleprompter on daily basis didn’t make studying traces any simpler. “One factor I noticed is whenever you’re out of the cleaning soap opera sport for even a comparatively quick period of time, memorizing traces turns into a little bit bit extra of a problem than it has prior to now,” Lowder confides. “I’ve at all times been a really, excellent line memorizer. It was by no means a problem for me. However being out of the sport for a minute and coming again to shoot these episodes, I did discover that the traditional time that I allotted prior to now for memorizing traces was not ample. You go from studying a teleprompter each single day to having to commit copy to reminiscence, your memorization muscle groups get atrophied.”
However, he’s all in on his new career. “I actually have fallen in love with the business of broadcast information,” he enthuses. “I sit on the similar chair and the identical desk in the identical studio, however the information cycle is totally different each single day. It even modifications all through a two-and-a-half-hour broadcast that we do each single morning, in order that retains me on my toes. It’s very fulfilling.”
However he’s nonetheless open to popping up in Salem when wanted. “I’m turning 45 this yr, and if I’ve discovered something in 45 years of being on this planet, I’ll simply say that you simply by no means know,” he presents. “I don’t prefer to put limitations on issues in anyway. I don’t prefer to say, ‘Nicely, that’s by no means been executed earlier than; I don’t see how that might work.’ I hold an open thoughts. This can be a present that gave a really inexperienced, very inexperienced 19-year-old child a shot they usually modified my life. There’s a loyalty that I’ve to that present, and Ken Corday [executive producer] specifically. If the decision is available in, I reply it and say, ‘How can I assist?’ I really like the present, I really like working with the folks on it, so I’m simply very grateful for the expertise to work there once more.
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