Gwen & Now
Soap Opera Digest|September 28, 2020
DAYS’s EMILY O’BRIEN is making the most of her return to daytime
 JANET DI LAURO
Gwen & Now

Bringing wild, out-there characters to life has become the daytime norm for Emily O’Brien. A decade after her stint as the quirky, witchcraft-practicing Jana Hawkes on Y&R, the actress has landed at DAYS playing Jake’s mercurial, offbeat girlfriend, Gwen. “Getting to play somebody who’s kind of raw and scruffy, a misanthrope who doesn’t really fit in very well, feels extremely comfortable for reasons that I don’t know,” chuckles O’Brien. “I really truly enjoy playing an outcast.”

O’Brien, who insists she’s “definitely quite centered and calm in real life,” felt an instant kinship with the volatile Gwen. “She’s different and quite unpredictable and much more dangerous, maybe I should say. She doesn’t look or behave like most of the people in town, and that’s really fun,” says the actress. “There’s more room to make a character colorful than if you’re playing an ingenue or a straight character, and it’s more interesting.”

Since debuting in June, O’Brien has been enjoying the twists and turns Gwen’s been taking, and the addition of comedy to the mix; specifically a few scenes she shared with Matthew Ashford (Jack) and Melissa Reeves (Jennifer). “I only worked with them once, but that was great fun,” recounts O’Brien, noting that they were all “cracking up in rehearsal. It was a really nice dynamic between this hurricane [Gwen] that came into the room and this couple who were trying to enjoy a peaceful evening together. Scenes like those are real gems when you get them.”

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