Followers of Daring & Lovely could also be having a tricky time watching John McCook’s Eric Forrester weaken earlier than their eyes. However the storyline — which took an particularly upsetting activate December 1 — has been a delight for the OG and his main woman. “For me and for Jennifer Gareis (Donna), that is actually our love story… we’re telling on the identical time,” he explains to Soap Opera Digest. “It’s been actually fantastic for us to play our moments alone collectively and to point out our personal vulnerabilities to one another.”
That stated, the Emmy winner understands his alter ego’s POV. On one hand, Eric “is wanting to place a constructive spin on his life for himself. However he additionally needs to have everyone there and for them to cease being so involved about him,” McCook says. “He needs to have fun that he received the [fashion] competitors with Ridge… And subconsciously, he needs them to cease seeing what he thinks they’re seeing, which is his deterioration.”
Had been McCook in Eric’s sneakers, he’d most likely stroll the identical path, he imagines. “My work is an important a part of my life, and going to Tv Metropolis in Hollywood [where the soap is taped] is likely one of the huge joys in my life. So if I had that form of a prognosis and that form of impending negativity in my well being, I believe I’d attempt to ignore it and rise above it whereas I used to be in entrance of the individuals I work with, and whereas I used to be doing my work, I’d attempt to overcome it.
“I perceive what Eric is doing,” he provides. “I actually do.”
Whilst you grapple with the notion that we could quickly lose the Forrester patriarch, cheer your self up with the beneath photograph gallery, which reveals who virtually performed Stephanie Forrester and extra.
