TERRELL RANSOM, JR. ON DAYS RETURN SUBS

Posing as Abe’s son, Theo Carver, a role he actually portrayed from 2008-15, was a bit challenging for Terrell Ransom, Jr., who recently resurfaced as Jerry, an actor Whitley hired to impersonate his old character.

“Coming back pretending was honestly kind of harder than you can imagine. There was none of that awkwardness. There was none of that pretending to be the son of someone that you had no idea who he was,” explains Ransom, referring to actor James Reynolds (Abe). “He’d been my TV dad for, like, seven years. It was kind of wild to pretend that I had no idea who this man was sitting in front of me.”

Being asked back to the show years after the powers that-be decided to age Theo, “was the craziest thing,” admits Ransom. “I got an email from my manager saying, ‘DAYS would like to have you back for a few episodes. Would you want to do it?’ I was like, ‘Wow. Yes, of course.’ I didn’t even know what the role would be.”

After accepting the gig, the information started trickling in. “They said, ‘You will be playing “a Theo”, and there’s another character,’ ” he recalls. “I was a little bit confused. Then I got the script and was like, ‘Okay, now I get it. This is going to be cool.’ ”

Ransom was quite excited about the prospect of seeing the DAYS cast and crew again. “I made sure I was dressed nice my first day to make a good impression. I had on nice jeans, a button-up shirt and a cowhide jacket. It was like, ‘Yeah. I came back good,’ ” he shares with a laugh. “By the second week, I was in sweats and a hoodie.”