Rex Out

Kyle Lowder Opens Up About His Surprising Exit From Days

Kyle Lowder wraps his second DAYS run on August 9, but he has known about his exit since late last year. “I found out in early December,” he relays of the bittersweet timing. “It was interesting, I just got back from New York doing a personal appearance for the show with Eric Martsolf [Brady]. It was just this wonderful weekend of meeting the fans and just such wonderful support: ‘Oh, my God! It’s so great to have you back,’ and ‘Can’t wait to see where the character goes.’ It was just a really great weekend. I left Sunday evening and I had to be on set first thing Monday morning. That day I got called upstairs to the production office.”

It was there that Lowder got the news that Rex would be leaving town. “It honestly was a very nice conversation,” he recalls. “They said, ‘Look, this is never easy, but we’re undergoing some huge changes with the show and we had to make some tough decisions about which characters are going to stay and which characters are going to go. Unfortunately, you’re one of the characters that we’re going to write off temporarily.’ It was just such a juxtaposition between spending all weekend with the fans and celebrating DAYS and my return, and then the very next work day that I get back, I got the news.”

Lowder admits he was surprised. “It was rough, I’m not going to lie about it,” he says. “I’ve been in this business for almost 20 years. I know it wasn’t personal. At the end of the day, it’s show business. I think what was toughest for me in that conversation is that I kept thinking to myself, ‘I just got here.’ I was so happy to come back to a show that has always meant the world to me. I just didn’t think it was going to end so soon. There was so much I wanted to accomplish.”