Sharon Case (CBS)
Soaps.com: Here's a big question - are you hoping that Sharon will get back together with Nick?
Sharon: Oh, yes! One day, yes. Absolutely! I think that's what this is all about, you know; Sharon moving on with Jack, and Phyllis, and I think it's all about them finding their way back to each other after what happened to them.
Soaps.com: Would you like to see them have another child together?
Sharon: Absolutely!
Soaps.com: Can you give us any hints about what's to come?
Sharon: Well, Sharon starts having a really hard time in life, with all the bad things that are going to start happening. Her reaction to things? She does a lot of really crazy things coming up in the future. She has a lot of fights with people - you see a really different side to Sharon coming around the corner.
Soaps.com: That sounds exciting. It's interesting because everyone is expecting that Phyllis will be the one going off the deep end!
Sharon: Yes! That's a good way of putting it - Sharon does go off the deep end!
Sharon Case (CBS)
Sharon: Oh, he's such a great boy! I love him - he's so sweet, and polite, and talented - cute!
Soaps.com: He's giving you problems on the show though!
Sharon: Yeah! But I really like it. I think Joshua [Morrow, Nick] and I are both really happy with the storyline, and with him as an actor, and him as a person - it's really just a fit. It fit like he's been here for a million years. It doesn't feel like we just met him. From the first day he was here, I felt like he's always played Noah, and I've known him my whole life.
Soaps.com: What do you think of the way Sharon has been handling the parenting challenges?
Sharon: Well, I think Sharon's a good parent. I don’t think she's doing anything different with Noah than you do in real life, or that my parents did with me. There are different ways of parenting, and they are trying to show in the storyline that Phyllis has the more lenient way of parenting, and Sharon is more conservative.
Soaps.com: Many viewers miss Sharon's friendship with Drucilla. Would you like to have that again on the show, either by having Dru return, or with a different character?
Sharon: Oh, yeah! Sharon doesn't have any friends - Dru was the only friend she had! I liked working with her [Victoria Rowell] a lot - that was a blast - it was fun to have a 'friend', but at the same time, when I was playing Drucilla's friend, I didn't really have my own storyline at the time. I was playing a supporting role to her during that time...I really didn't have that much to do. It's actually very difficult! You'd think that being a supporting player would be easier than playing a lead, but that is not true at all. When you're playing the lead, things are happening to you constantly, so it's easy to play those things out, but when you're supporting somebody else, nothing is happening to you - you're just standing there! [laughs] You're having to stand there and listen, and be supportive, and really care - about something that has nothing to do with you! In real life, when you support your friends, that's not difficult to do, you feel empathy for them. But when you're on stage - well, that's tough to do in the imaginary world.
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- Candace Young
