Post by Cecilia on Jan 19, 2006 19:08:33 GMT
To Boldly go
From: The Daily Telegraph
By Sarrah Le Marquand
What could garlic possibly have to do with the world's most
successful daytime soap?
According to Ronn Moss, who has played Ridge Forrester on The Bold
And The Beautiful since its debut in 1987, the pungent bulb shares
some common properties with the popular show.
"There's, like, three per cent of garlic that you cannot analyze --
scientists have not been able to find that mystery element," Moss
explains when asked for his theory on Bold's enduring
success. "Maybe that's the same thing with this -- it's not meant to
be analyzed, and if you do, then it will change. It's always been an
intangible. I've not been able to answer that for 19 years and I
think maybe I don't want to for the fear of discovering something I'm
not meant to know."
Now in its 19th year, Bold has been sold to more than 100 countries
around the world and is the most watched daytime soap in Australia.
Most people -- whether they admit it or not -- have spent the
occasional afternoon catching up with the convoluted dramas of the
fashionable Forrester dynasty.
Yet despite an estimated global audience of 450 million television
viewers a day, Bold -- like all daytime soaps -- is a subject of
ridicule among critics.
"If you dwell on it you just get more frustrated, so instead we just
work within the acknowledgment that we get," says Moss. "Tooting our
own horn here: we're the No. 1 show in the world and the No. 2 show
in the US and we have been for years. So do we bemoan not getting
any recognition or do you just have fun with it and not take it too
seriously?
"I've put in 4800 shows. That's more airtime than any major movie
star will ever put in. And I have more of an audience in one day
than they will ever have in any movie they've ever done."
In the course of those 4800 episodes, Moss has encountered his share
of far-fetched plots.
There's been the usual soap opera staples: infidelity, mistaken
paternity, bigamy and deranged stalkers. More recently, Moss's
character discovered his former wife Taylor had risen from the
grave. For the second time.
"When you have to go five days a week, 52 weeks a year, you've got to
come up with something," he laughs. "We're not setting out to be
highbrow -- the show's not meant to be anything more than light
entertainment."
But Moss tries to find a sliver of realism in unbelievable scenarios.
"I have to find that place that makes it real," he says. "When
Taylor came back my initial feeling was, 'Oh God, people are going to
laugh through this'. But I got to a point where I actually convinced
myself this could be possible. I found a way to make it work. I had
to. When I got down in that grave and dug her out, I got the
creepiest feeling because I went to the possibility that this could
really happen.
"Stranger things happen in real life than anything we can dramatize
on our show," he adds. "I know that for a fact.
People go, 'How can you do that bloody drama?' and I say, 'Have you
ever seen two people -- two lovers -- in a restaurant have a
knockdown fight? That's drama. Stuff happens in the world that's
much more dramatic than what will happen on our show. We have
censors on what we're doing."
Moss says a more challenging aspect of working on Bold for nearly two
decades is revisiting the same stories over and over.
"I don't like recycling, I'd like it to always be a new storyline but
everything's cyclical. I often come away from a day's work
thinking, 'I didn't make that work, it just became a recycling job' --
and I don't want that to happen," he says.
With Moss increasingly focusing on his music career, including a
world concert tour planned this year, he acknowledges his days as
Ridge Forrester may be numbered.
"It has become a job -- a great job and a job I love doing it -- but
it's becoming harder to get up and go and know that I'm making it
work every day. I feel like people want me to be a certain way, they
want me to be Ridge and continue always being Ridge. And I'm just
praying they don't close off the concept of me doing something else."
From: The Daily Telegraph
By Sarrah Le Marquand
What could garlic possibly have to do with the world's most
successful daytime soap?
According to Ronn Moss, who has played Ridge Forrester on The Bold
And The Beautiful since its debut in 1987, the pungent bulb shares
some common properties with the popular show.
"There's, like, three per cent of garlic that you cannot analyze --
scientists have not been able to find that mystery element," Moss
explains when asked for his theory on Bold's enduring
success. "Maybe that's the same thing with this -- it's not meant to
be analyzed, and if you do, then it will change. It's always been an
intangible. I've not been able to answer that for 19 years and I
think maybe I don't want to for the fear of discovering something I'm
not meant to know."
Now in its 19th year, Bold has been sold to more than 100 countries
around the world and is the most watched daytime soap in Australia.
Most people -- whether they admit it or not -- have spent the
occasional afternoon catching up with the convoluted dramas of the
fashionable Forrester dynasty.
Yet despite an estimated global audience of 450 million television
viewers a day, Bold -- like all daytime soaps -- is a subject of
ridicule among critics.
"If you dwell on it you just get more frustrated, so instead we just
work within the acknowledgment that we get," says Moss. "Tooting our
own horn here: we're the No. 1 show in the world and the No. 2 show
in the US and we have been for years. So do we bemoan not getting
any recognition or do you just have fun with it and not take it too
seriously?
"I've put in 4800 shows. That's more airtime than any major movie
star will ever put in. And I have more of an audience in one day
than they will ever have in any movie they've ever done."
In the course of those 4800 episodes, Moss has encountered his share
of far-fetched plots.
There's been the usual soap opera staples: infidelity, mistaken
paternity, bigamy and deranged stalkers. More recently, Moss's
character discovered his former wife Taylor had risen from the
grave. For the second time.
"When you have to go five days a week, 52 weeks a year, you've got to
come up with something," he laughs. "We're not setting out to be
highbrow -- the show's not meant to be anything more than light
entertainment."
But Moss tries to find a sliver of realism in unbelievable scenarios.
"I have to find that place that makes it real," he says. "When
Taylor came back my initial feeling was, 'Oh God, people are going to
laugh through this'. But I got to a point where I actually convinced
myself this could be possible. I found a way to make it work. I had
to. When I got down in that grave and dug her out, I got the
creepiest feeling because I went to the possibility that this could
really happen.
"Stranger things happen in real life than anything we can dramatize
on our show," he adds. "I know that for a fact.
People go, 'How can you do that bloody drama?' and I say, 'Have you
ever seen two people -- two lovers -- in a restaurant have a
knockdown fight? That's drama. Stuff happens in the world that's
much more dramatic than what will happen on our show. We have
censors on what we're doing."
Moss says a more challenging aspect of working on Bold for nearly two
decades is revisiting the same stories over and over.
"I don't like recycling, I'd like it to always be a new storyline but
everything's cyclical. I often come away from a day's work
thinking, 'I didn't make that work, it just became a recycling job' --
and I don't want that to happen," he says.
With Moss increasingly focusing on his music career, including a
world concert tour planned this year, he acknowledges his days as
Ridge Forrester may be numbered.
"It has become a job -- a great job and a job I love doing it -- but
it's becoming harder to get up and go and know that I'm making it
work every day. I feel like people want me to be a certain way, they
want me to be Ridge and continue always being Ridge. And I'm just
praying they don't close off the concept of me doing something else."