“There’s this percep-
tion that because I had
walked in and entered a nego-
tiation. No, I had to audition like
everybody else. I went in and read for the
role of Liam [in 2010], who was called Adam
at the time. It was a breakup scene about a
guy who seemed uncomfortable with how
promiscuous his significant other was behav-
ing, and then I got a callback.”
First Co-Star You Worked
With: “I did my chemistry read with
Jacqui [MacInnes Wood, Steffy]. There
was a kiss in the scene and I asked Jacqui
before we went in, ‘How does this work?
Am I supposed to kiss you? I don’t know
here.’ She said,
‘Yeah, f--k it. Kiss
me.’ So, we did
the scene.”
First Time
Meeting
Executive
Producer/Bradley Bell: “The
chemistry read was for Bradthe scene was over, Brad said something to
the effect that he hadn’t seen anyone read his
words so conversationally and it didn’t feel
like acting. I was like, ‘Wow! Thanks!’ So,
I left and a couple of days later, I got the call
saying I got the part. When I came in for the
wardrobe fitting, I got called up to Brad’s
office and he invited me in and said, ‘Okay,
it’s a secret who your character is. I don’t
know how you work as an actor. Do you want
to know?’ And I said, ‘Heck, yeah! Tell me
everything!’ So, he told me that ultimately I
would be Bill Spencer’s son.”
First Costume: “I was an IT guy so
it was your typical blue, collared shirt and
khaki pants, like you’d see at Best Buy. It
was nondescript.”
First Line Of Dialogue: “It
was something simple like, ‘Hello, Ms.
Forrester.’ What was cool about the introduc-
tion of Liam, unlike a lot of other characters,
was in my first episode I was in, like, one
scene and in my second episode, I was in,
like, one-to-two scenes. There was no reason,
as an audience member, to believe I was any-
thing other than an under-5, which is what
you call somebody who has under five lines.
Initially, those scenes weren’t significant to
the story, and then this character, little byHOWARDWISE/JPIbold
Your Company’s Computer
Guy: Liam was introduced as
an IT expert called in to help
with a computer issue.
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SMITH/JPIScott
CliftonLiam,
2010-present