Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers.
It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.