(during rehearsal of course) The sound guys cracked up because they knew it was aimed at Alice and they let it stay in. She's from Rochester and just last week Roger said he made a crack about Rochester which deviated from the script. My favorite story is about "Alice" the female dresser at GH. Which of course, you can tell if you watch GH enough! One of the main points is that he really tries to have fun with the part. It's also more gestures and one/two words, not whole scenes. He said that he only ad libs during rehearsal and if it's felt it 'works' it can stay. We talked a bit about what everyone felt was Roger's habit of ad libbing. * Only really watches sports on TV-specifically soccer He did quite a bit in the Todd OLTL "hey-days" *Doesn't get recognized very much anymore. *Says Maurice is 'pretty funny' and called the show "Sonny Hospital" at least 2x *Would like to try writing when he takes an acting break or 'retires' and admires Michael Easton for his work in this area. *Is doing more events so he can "get over himself"! *Roger only learns his lines the 'day of' shooting during rehearsal. I was hoping for more of that quad interaction but not happening in the near future. He said nothing about future scoops/plots (I swear) but did say he hasn't worked with Michael Easton in awhile. Even now, with everyone more integrated, he will sometimes not see people for ages until there's a pop-up scene somewhere and he's like "oh, hey! How you doin"? Given the fact that actors are basically working to contract (meaning not many 'over days') he isn't even scheduled to tape on the same days as many others. Roger did say that he felt that at the time Franco and Nina were together, they were way too isolated from the rest of the cast. Then he 'joked'."you knew I'd probably say the people writing now, right"? He said that scenes were about 30 seconds before and he's happy to be playing longer ones. Roger said that her character development happens over time and he's had a chance to stretch a bit lately. He thought for a bit and said that Jean (one of the present co-head writers) Passante. I asked out of all the head writers, who challenged him the most as an actor. My question to him was about the writers he's worked with. Now, with Twitter everyone is basically in the dark. He did say that at times, he did know what might be coming for Todd in the old Cartini days but that was because things were discussed more. (a common theme it seems for soap actors-they DON'T WRITE THE MATERIAL and they have no input to the stories). At one point Roger said "I have no idea about Jason and Franco, I know they hate each other but I don't write the stuff". There were some more 'enthusiastic' fans in the audience that really pushed about the Jason/Franco relationship. There were many questions about "Friz" and Franco and Liz' relationship. He also mentioned the giant tumor in a jar - (everyone howled on that one) and that he thought it was a bit of a cop-out to explain away Franco's behavior on a medical condition. He said "that's pretty terrible"! He and KeMo had a laugh about it all. Roger also doesn't know about Franco's history and just learned about the whole thing with Sam the other day when taping a scene. He also never watched tapes of James Franco as the "Franco" character because he didn't want to fall into any trap of trying to imitate him. He doesn't like to watch himself on the show (or any shows that he does). (His son was an adult by then) So, everyone moved back to New York where he finds people much friendlier and the atmosphere more invigorating. They did try to live in LA for a year when he got the GH job but decided he really didn't wan to raise his daughter there. He works only 2 days a week so it's a doable commute. Nope Nope and Nope! He still lives in NYC and travels to CA to work. I'll start with something I think most people know about Roger he really doesn't like LA. Roger is by the way, funny enough to have a little road-show if he wanted one!! He sees Louie CK as a master of the craft and brilliant. Roger told us he really wanted to try stand up comdy but was too scared to try it.
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