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    ‘Younger and the Stressed’ Interview: Valarie Pettiford, Telma Hopkins Discuss ‘Half & Half’ Reunion on CBS Cleaning soap

    Willie MurphyBy Willie MurphyDecember 11, 20246 Mins Read
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    ‘Younger and the Stressed’ Interview: Valarie Pettiford, Telma Hopkins Discuss ‘Half & Half’ Reunion on CBS Cleaning soap
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    Followers of the sitcom Half & Half will wish to tune into The Younger and the Stressed later this month when Telma Hopkins and Valarie Pettiford are reunited on display screen.

    The actors, who toiled alongside one another on the sequence that ran from 2002-2006, have remained shut because the present wrapped. “Once we auditioned collectively for Half & Half, we began growing a relationship,” says Hopkins, who performed Phyllis Thorne. “I received her all to myself for 4 entire years. Greatest time of my life.”

    Pettiford, who portrayed Deirdre “Huge Dee Dee” Lafontaine Thorne, reveals that Hopkins stunned her with the information they’d be reconnecting. “They didn’t even name me,” Pettiford shares. “She known as me and mentioned, ‘Guess what?’ ”

    'Half & Half' cast - Valarie Pettiford, Essence Atkins, Rachel True, Telma Hopkins, Chico Benymon

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    Explains Hopkins, “As a result of they needed to ask me if I’d do it first. And I occurred to be going to South Africa throughout the time that they needed me, they usually really rescheduled, so we started working collectively. And that, for me, is simply the whole lot. I imply, each time I’m with Valarie, I’m at all times having a very good time. It’s prolonged household, and we simply respect one another each time we’re collectively. It’s simply disgusting.”

    Muses Pettiford, “I do know. Good God. I do know, it’s actually gross, however I like her.”

    Hopkins, who beforehand appeared on Y&R in 2021, will reprise the position of personal detective Denise Tolliver. As a newcomer to soaps again then, “It was horrifying,” she remembers. “The one purpose I received talked into it was as a result of Bryton [James, Devon Winters] performed my son on Household Issues, and he can form of speak me into something.”

    However she did have some floor guidelines. “I had warned them beforehand, ‘Don’t give me all that dialogue that y’all used to doing, as a result of I’ll run out of right here and go play in site visitors,’ ” quips Hopkins. “In order that they have been very form to me the primary couple of instances. After which the final time I labored with Bryton, we had, like, 12 pages. I nearly had a nervous breakdown. Apart from that, it’s been nice. It’s a pleasure for me as a result of I began watching Younger and the Relaxationmuch less with my grandmother after I was somewhat child. And the folks listed here are so enjoyable. I’ve watched them for therefore lengthy, I really speak to them as in the event that they know me.”

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    Pettiford, who made her Genoa Metropolis debut on October 29 as Amy Lewis, had cleaning soap expertise early in her profession, showing as Courtney Walker on One other World from 1988-90 and Dr. Sheila Worth on One Life to Reside from 1990-94. However after a 30-year hole, “It freaked me out, too, all this dialogue,” she admits. “It was attention-grabbing. However while you’re in your dressing room, you possibly can see the opposite actors filming their stuff earlier than you go and do your scenes, and one thing about it calmed me down. They have been, initially, so sensible. And it’s okay if you happen to mess up a line and it’s important to take it once more or no matter. One of many actors was having hassle. It was like, ‘I want I had your form of hassle,’ as a result of she was so sensible, so it simply jogged my memory of that rhythm once more after which I instantly received again into it. For essentially the most half, it was like using a motorcycle.”

    Valarie Pettiford, Telma Hopkins - 'The Young and the Restless'

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    Sharing scenes collectively once more got here simply. “We’re so comfy with one another,” observes Hopkins. “I imply, we spent 4 years, 5 days every week collectively, and we have been adversaries on [Half & Half], which was actually enjoyable to play. It simply provides it a basis, a form of gravitas that it wouldn’t have if we didn’t have the connection we have now. So, we don’t need to work at that, we simply need to work on the scene.”

    Within the story, Amy asks Nate Hastings (Sean Dominic) to assist her discover her lacking son Damian, who’s Nate’s half-brother. Nate will rent Denise to trace him down. Pettiford says she is having fun with stepping into the deeper elements of Amy’s plight. “I’m having the time of my life,” she declares. “I’m attending to play each little bit of me. I’m getting an opportunity to train some muscle groups which were dormant or I haven’t used shortly and I simply really feel so free. And it truly is a dream. I’ve been round a very long time and I’ve completed all of it with the very best of the very best and that is proper up there with it.”

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    For Hopkins, enjoying a detective is a brand new twist for her. “I’m nosy so I can get proper into that,” she chuckles. “I wish to know all people’s enterprise anyway, so I’m glad they known as for that. I’ve by no means completed that form of position. I imply, it’s nothing heavy like what [Valarie’s] going by, nevertheless it’s a enjoyable position and it’s only a enjoyable present to be part of.”

    So was Half & Half, the sequence that bonded the 2 for all times. “We had the very best time on that present,” says Hopkins. “That was one of many greater disappointments that we didn’t come again to complete out that final season. We favored one another, however we got here to like one another simply being in one another’s lives. We simply had a ball, and so each time anyone brings up Valarie, Half & Half or something in that period, it’s only a pleasure for me. It’s simply heat.”

    “What she mentioned,” nods Pettiford. “Completely. We had enjoyable. It was simply sensible.”

    Each performers say they’d welcome an invitation again to the cleaning soap. “In fact! It’s like household now,” notes Hopkins. “Bryton threatened my life if I don’t come again and work with him. He’s not my son, however he feels that manner, so I simply love being with him. And I used to be in his dressing room! The irony of all of it! I left him notes and stuff.”

    Provides Pettiford, “I’ve been dropping hints consistently. It’s nice work and issues have modified within the enterprise proper now. Child, that is the gig to be on! [I’m] so very fortunate and really, very grateful.”

    Search for Hopkins and Pettiford to air on December 19 and 27.

    The Younger and the Stressed, CBS, Weekdays, Test Native Listings





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