Best Of Frenemies

Y&R’s Camryn Grimes and Mishael Morgan Are Happiest When Their Characters Are Feuding

- Devin Owens

Soap Opera Digest: Do you remember when you first met?

Mishael Morgan: I feel like we met in passing, but I used to watch the show when she was little Cassie, so I do remember seeing Camryn and going, “Oh, my God, there’s Cassie!” Then I wondered, “What is she doing here? Cassie died years ago.” But I knew she came back as a ghost, so I was kind of curious what they were going to be doing with her.

Camryn Grimes: I think I’ve been on for, three years now. Maybe two-and-a-half, three years consistently?

Morgan: I started four years in May, so that would have been six months after I started.

Digest: When you started working together at GC BUZZ, did you get the sense that it could lead to something more for your characters?

Morgan: I definitely felt like there was such a natural banter, just by the way we played off each other. I thought it was going somewhere and pushed us to do a little bit more. So, yeah, I had a feeling that it would continue.

Grimes: I was really hoping that it would continue, because Mariah only interacted with Sharon and Kevin for two years, and I was like, “Oh, cool. Maybe she’ll branch out.” But at the same time, you never know. They always try things and see if they work, so I had apprehension if I was ever going to start a story with people that I haven’t worked with before. Two seconds of GC BUZZ, I just felt, “This is so much fun, I hope the audience likes it.”

Digest: What was your reaction to the ladies becoming such rivals?