CAMILA BANUS: WHY I CAME BACK TO DAYS

Camila Banus will be back on DAYS this fall as Gabi, nearly a year after she said good-bye, but only a couple of months after she last aired.

“When I was deciding on leaving in 2019, it was a couple of different factors,” Banus begins. “One of the main factors was that I was involved in not only my story, but other storylines, as well, just weaved around, and it was a lot of work. I’m talking about I was coming in pretty much five days of the week, four days of the week, and it was a lot of hours, a lot of scripts, a lot of words. I was just like, ‘I need a mental reset. My body needs a reset.’ And I also wanted to creatively do something that was different from the formula I had been doing for so long. The break that I had taken before that had been for a couple of years, so for me, it was just kind of a natural, my body was asking for a break, mentally, creatively and physically.”

Banus wrapped up last November, “Which was kind of hushhush, low key,” she recalls. “When we got back at the beginning of the year, I did not come back for the beginning of shooting, which was so strange for me.