TANNER STINE ON DAYS DEBUT

Making his debut as Joey Johnson on the Peacock special BEYOND SALEM: CHAPTER 2 ahead of joining DAYS was a major blessing for Tanner Stine.

"One of my best friends is Carson Boatman [Johnny]," begins the actor. "We've been friends for 10, 11 years. He would always tell me about how many pages he would have per day. One day, he had, like, 64 pages of shooting. I was like, 'Man, I hope they don't throw me into the mix that quickly.' Luckily, with Peacock, I didn't have too much material. I had five-to-10 pages a day. So it was an easy introduction to being on the show." 

Stine nabbed the DAYS role after submitting a self-tape audition. "I did it at Carson's house with Carson," he explains. "We used his self-tape space, and he read with me. It was one scene. Then I got a phone call from my manager a week-and-a-half later [that I got the part]. I was at one of my favorite restaurants and was like, 'Well. This calls for a beer."

" It wasn't the first time Stine had tried out for the role. "Carson and I had both screen-tested for Joey Johnson, when the [adult version of the character] was introduced on the show seven years ago,” reveals Stine. “There were, like, five guys, but neither of us got the part. I had met Mary Beth [Evans, Kayla] then, when we were on stage doing the scene. So we reunited when I got the recast role of Joey.”