The Daring and Stunning fame Heather Tom will get a particular honor on the CBS sudser! The actress who performs Katie Logan Spencer will quickly full 35 years of affiliation with the present. The creators determined to rejoice Tom’s milestone by giving her inventive management in a particular episode.
She’s going to write, direct, and star in an all-female episode of the daytime drama. This primary-of-its-kind particular will honor Ladies’s Historical past Month and have among the present’s main girls.
Along with Tom, the episode will embrace Rebecca Budig (Taylor), Annika Noelle (Hope), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke), Jennifer Gareis (Donna), and Jacqueline MacInnes Wooden (Steffy).
Chatting with Deadline, Tom shared how the thought for the particular episode happened, noting that an all-female episode is a rarity in cleaning soap operas. Daytime screenwriter Brad Bell approached her with the distinctive alternative to tackle triple duties—director, author, and star—for one episode.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh, that’ll be fascinating!’” the six-time Daytime Emmy winner revealed. After discussing the filming logistics, they determined the episode ought to air throughout Ladies’s Historical past Month due to its “historic” significance.
The 18-minute episode will discover the mother-daughter relationships inside the present. The all-female theme will even prolong behind the scenes, with a feminine stage supervisor, assistant director, and editors contributing to the manufacturing.
The Daring and the Stunning is not the primary daytime drama to provide an episode solely created and led by ladies. In 2020, Common Hospital aired a suffrage-themed episode that includes a feminine author, director, and an all-female solid.
Concerning the theme of B&B’s Ladies’s Historical past Month episode, Tom expressed her enthusiasm, saying, “The mother-daughter relationships are so fascinating to me and so formative.” Having misplaced her personal mom final yr, she famous that the episode could be particularly “emotional” and significant for her.
The particular female-led episode of The Daring and the Stunning will premiere on March 27.