Jim Halterman: You know, in the time that - since you left Days of Our Lives originally, you know, going to different soaps is there - are each one of them different? Is it a different feel? And how does it feel to be back on the Days set?
CC: Oh, you know, they're all different. I think between my husband and I we've done six, seven, or eight soaps. Yeah, so every environment is different. But the process is pretty much the same with the exception of Guiding Light the last year and a half. That was very different. But, yeah, I mean it's all good. It's all what you make of it. And as far as coming back, I mean, I'm thrilled. I'm having probably the best time that I've had in years. It's really, really been fun to play this character again and work with everybody again.
Jim Halterman: Well that's great. And, you know, the soap audiences are changing as far as, you know, Guiding Light going off the air. And do you think the Internet is kind of the way to go? I mean you're doing your show Venice. Is that kind of where you think the future is?
CC: I think daytime will be around for a very long time. I think it's going to have to adapt to the changing, you know, economy and changing viewership. But if it can do that I think it can have a long life. I don’t want to see it go away because I find comfort in knowing that I’m able to turn on my TV during the day and follow some, you know, my favorite stories. But yeah, with that there's the Internet and that's - that's moveable, that's immediate. You can tune in any time you want. So, yeah, it's a different way to watching, you know, TV shows or shows. I don't know if that answered your question.
Mike Hughes with TV America: Hey, tell us a little about Carly and Bo. When you were first on DAYS what were your first reactions to Bo the character and to Peter Reckell?
CC: Peter's just a kind guy, so it was very easy to work with him. And I think we have a nice, easy energy with each other and learned to trust each very quickly out on the set. And the character of Bo is just that classic, you know, hero. He's the guy you want as a friend and as a romantic partner. And he's that perfect guy.
Mike Hughes: And now you're returning to the show in very imperfect conditions because you need help - you've killed someone. Tell me the thing that kind of throws you together again.
CC Yeah, she kills someone. She knifes her husband, but that was really an accident. Obviously that's not who she is. She's a doctor. She's someone who saves lives. But there was a major threat for her to do something like that. And she knew that Lawrence would be the person to follow through on his threat, so the only way she could save someone that she loves is to eliminate him and get out of there. He basically held her captive, so she had to get out of there. It was the only way for her to get out to go find someone to help her protect that person that she's trying to save. So, yeah, Bo and Justin were the two people that she thought of.
Mike Hughes: And so returning to Carly and Bo and the situation like this, and there's such peril and so forth, what's that like? What's it like to play the character now?
CC: Well I love that she's come back and she's imperfect. I love that she seems to be really, really good at the doctor thing and then just a total loser when it comes to relationships. So I appreciate that about a soap character. But as much as she would like to think that she can handle everything on her own, she needs Bo and knows that he'll come through.
Peter Reckell is on the call now.
Alex Davies: So first off for Crystal you've mentioned that it's kind of been nice coming back. Has it been really easy to get back into character or have you had to try to kind of work your way back in?
CC: You know I wanted to come back but I wanted her to be different. I wanted her to be different, so I’m sort of still finding my legs a little bit, although I sort of feel now like I'm getting it. But everyone's so nice, and even just working my way back into this format has been kind of jarring because we were on hand-helds for a year and a half on Guiding Light, but everyone's been great.
Alex Davies: And Peter how has it been having her back, this love interest that you have a history without Zach coming back.
PR: First of all, Bo and Hope have been together for so long and the writers have found it difficult to make our stories interesting. And bringing Carly back just makes it obviously a lot more exciting and interesting on a lot of new levels that, when Crystal was here before we didn't have, because Hope wasn't here. And so there's a lot of history with both these women and so it's pretty intense. And then on the other level of working with an amazing, two amazing actresses, it makes my life fun.
Alex Davies: And Crystal are you worried at all of becoming like the most hated woman in America or something, because the whole Bo and Hope thing. They've been together for so long and then here you come churning up the pot.
CC: Well first of all who could hate me? I mean really, it's just ridiculous talk. No, you know what, I spent ten years on Guiding Light and never getting the guy. And it used to bother me. People used to come up and just say nasty things to me. And I played a nasty character. I mean she was just mean and evil and bitchy.
PR: How much fun is that?
CC: It was so much fun. I guess that's my point, in that I'd rather be the girl who loses. I'd rather be the one who stirs the pot. I have no issue with that whatsoever. And the fans are smart. They know that ultimately Bo and Hope are going to live happily ever after. But it gives them stories. It gives them a chance to watch a great story with their favorite couple.
PR: Yeah, it just makes a perfect love story when the circumstances are what stirs the pot. It's the circumstances more than the characters because Carly was here when Hope wasn't here. So it brings in a whole different level.
CC: Yeah, Bo and Hope are fighting their way through something anyway. And so it's just the timing of it that all this is happening at this particular time, but it's a good story.
