Soap Opera Digest: What was your reaction when you found out that Y&R was doing a stand-alone episode about Jack? Were you flattered?
Peter Bergman: I’ve never done a standalone episode before. Frankly, I probably wasn’t in favor of this. Nobody asked me and I didn’t offer my opinion. I thought, “Oh, I don’t want to bore people,” and stuff like that. And I was really wrong. It was a real joy to do. It was a powerful experience for me. It was a reminder of just how lucky I am, a reminder of the friends I’ve made on the show, a reminder of the powerful memories that are with me forever from this show. It was a pretty neat experience.
Digest: Did you have any input into it?
Bergman: I had no input at all. It was put together by one of our producers, Elizabeth LeBrun, and several of our writers. It was a very well-thought-out episode that carefully combed through 30 years. They got a real variety of things [from Jack’s past]. It was pretty cool.
Digest: What did you think when you got the script?
Bergman: Again, my worry was, “Are people gonna find this interesting?” I’m the first to underestimate my value there. The first time I realized, “Oh, this could be a powerful experience for me,” was when they pulled a number of [flashbacks] and sent them my way. I watched and I thought, “God, these are such rich, powerful memories for me.” It was a powerful experience. And then on that day, Jack is finally looking at the finished book that he and Traci have written and as he pages through 30 years of his life, his whole family shows up, and that was very emotionally powerful for me.
Digest: How did you work that day? Did you try to stay in character the whole time?
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GREAT Expectations
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GH PREVIEW: DREW IS FREE!
Carly gets a happy surprise when Drew shows up at Kelly's, having been granted an early release from Pentonville.
B&B: RIDGE KEEPS MUM ABOUT ERIC
After learning that Eric is dying, Ridge tries to make his father's life a little easier. \"Ridge told Eric he won the fashion showdown because he realizes that his father needed this,\" explains Thorsten Kaye (Ridge). \"He's in no way trying to be patronizing, and if Eric were to ever find out, I'd hope he see the love behind it. Ridge just thought it was the right thing to do.\"
DAYS: LI IS MURDERED!
Gabi and Stefan's plot to take over DiMera takes a deadly turn when he finds her kneeling over Li's body, holding a knife.
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After years of playing a gamut of wild and wonderful characters on DAYS - the quirky, obsessive Nick, a Halloween zombie, and, most recently, the gatekeeper to hell Blake Berris is tackling something new and different: a bona fide leading man. And he's finally ready to embrace it.
