Q
What would you think about Robert pursuing a relationship with Laura?
It is something I always wanted to see, as much as I love Laura with
Kevin.
Mary Elizabeth E.
A These two have an enormous amount of history together. I know Genie [Francis, Laura]
would go for it, but I just don’t see it happening. Not now. I think the connection with Jon
Lindstrom [Kevin] is a solid one and I just don’t see them putting the two of us together. It wasn’t
going to happen while Tony was around. The public wouldn’t have gone for that and the produc-
ers wouldn’t have gone for that. They kept on trying to find ways to put Luke and Laura back
together as an item, but ultimately, it never happened. What we have now, we have hints of what
could be. I don’t think this is accidental. I think this is deliberate. Where it can go, I have no idea.
Q
What do you think it was
about the combination of
you, Finola and Kimberly
McCullough (Robin) that just
worked so well? Hope we will see
you all together again on the show!
Dana S.
A Well, she was a very smart little kid,
Kimberly. She’s probably the smartest kid
I’ve ever worked with, next to Brooklyn
[Rae Silzer, ex-Emma]. Robert had never
been a parent before. Little Kimberly comes
along, smart as a whip and could carry an
ad-libbed scene, could keep up with us... It
just was one of those rare moments that it
just all worked. And then she starts to grow
up and we stayed the same parents, to a
point, except when Fin and I left. She stayed
with my brother. She was always a member
of the Scorpio family. It doesn’t always
happen like that. But in this particular case,
it happened and it worked beautifully. And
it still does. We don’t see each other all that
often, but whenever they’re all together, it’s
the Scorpio family. We pick up where we
left off.
Q
What do you like most about Y&R
[where he played Colin on and off
from 2010-17]?
Sharon A.
A A number of things. I mean, you’re always
going to have good people to work with because
that’s the nature of what daytime is. Y&R in that
sense is no different from GH. They shoot in a
similar way to GH. The facilities there are ter-
rific. All of the directors are great. I think where
my character was concerned, they kind of didn’t
know what to do with me. It worked out really
well working with Jess Walton [Jill]. I was only
booked for 10 days. I was brought onto the show
to take Cane off it, and that didn’t work out.
It was apparent really, really quickly that Jess
and I got along great together. I was told before
my 10 shows were up, “Don’t go packing your
bags just yet.”
And sure enough,
they offered me
a contract over
Christmas. Jess
is such a pro that
she picked up a
lot right away on
the nature of the
character. She’s
wonderful. In
terms of characters,
Scorpio and Colin,
I didn’t want one to
bleed into the other.
And to that end, it
worked.My Girl: Rogers praises Kimberly
McCullough (ex-Robin), pictured in 1985,
as “probably the smartest kid I’ve ever
worked with.”
ABCJess Indeed: The
actor viewed his Y&R
pairing with Jess
Walton (Jill), pictured
in 2011, as a success.JOHN PASCHAL/JPI