Talking Points

Y&R’s Joshua Morrow was a guest on Digest’s new podcast, Dishing With Digest, and discussed all of the recent Nick twists, his special relationship with on-screen dad Eric Braeden (Victor) and so much more.

 

Soap Opera Digest: Nick has been up to a lot lately!

Joshua Morrow: Yeah! The writers have bestowed a pretty healthy amount of story on me now. I’m very happy. It’s probably the story I’ve been most excited to tell since in, like, forever. I’m very, very, very happy to come to work right now.

Digest: Let’s start with that J.T. reveal. When did you find out and what was your reaction?

Morrow: Mal [Young, executive producer/ head writer] had told me, I’m gonna say six months earlier, that that’s what they were gonna be doing, and at first I was like, “What on earth are you talking about?” But he told me it was coming and I was really looking forward to telling a story that would affect so many people. He sat me down and told me what the big, giant plan was. I couldn’t believe it at first, and I just wasn’t sure with how it was gonna play out; like, how am I supposed to pretend to be J.T.? It didn’t make much sense to me what they were telling me initially. I was just like, I don’t know how we could afford to do that, I don’t know how to sell it and make it happen without it seeming ridiculous, but the way it unfolded, I thought, was just incredibly clever. My hat’s off to the writers on that one! The crew worked very hard with the reveal. They had the mask made with CGI and stuff, and it just was an incredibly exciting way to kind of tell the story that we’ve been leading up to. Like I said, I was really, really happy to do it.

Digest: Can you tell us a little bit more about what went into pulling that off?