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| Kristoff St. John |
7 AM MORN DOG WALK NEIGHBOR: I just started watching Y&R. I love it. ME: Thanks. NEIGHBOR: I never see you tho. Are you an extra? #Ouch #YR
— Kristoff St John (@kristoffstjohn1) April 18, 2015The talented actor is still under contract but the airtime for Neil, Devon (Emmy winner Bryton James) and Hilary has diminished in recent months (don't get me started on the disappearance of "Hevon"), coinciding with Pratt's reign (and Victoria Rowell's lawsuit). By posting the tweet above, is St. John sending a message to bosses that he needs more airtime? If so, hopefully Y&R's head writer, producing team, CBS and Sony are listening.
On a related note, Mishael Morgan revealed to Soaps in Depth on Monday that she is expecting her first child in August.
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3 comments:
I'm surprised when these actors (the kid from GH last wk) publicly express their professional discontent on social media and then wonder why the Brass is upset with them and/or make matters worse.
Really? Given the racist crap that Victoria Rowell, Kristof, Bryton, and other black performers have experienced on Y&R, I don't have a problem with Kristof speaking out at all. Hell, while primetime TV is buzzing about the Empire effect and the need for diversity, Pratt and company are completely ignoring it.
I think you really are missing out on the historical context of how badly black performers on Y&R have been treated. You should talk to Roger Newcomb who's researched and written about this subject.
Other than The Bold and the Beautiful, there are no women of color leading a story on a soap.
Y&R had a great love story with Hillary & Devon yet they are barely on these days. You never see that with white couples on soaps. Hot couples are featured nearly daily. That's not the case with Hevon.
Personally, I am sickened that the Winters have once again been pushed aside and are rarely seen. When we read about how primetime TV is trying to diversify by adding more people of color.
Look across the remaining soap operas. There are no black women tenured actresses. Not one has a long term black, Latina, Asian, or Native American actress. When you think about the great actresses on the remaining soaps, not one is a person of color because she doesn't exist.
Other than Sabrina Santiago on GH, can you name another Latina on a soap opera? In recent memory, can you think of a dark-skinned, non-white Latina or Latino (I say this because soaps frequently hire white actors and actresses to play Latinos, ignoring the large number of Native American, mestizo, and Afro-Latino actors) in a soap role.
The only person of color with a decent storyline on Days is Christopher Sean. Otherwise, Salem is pretty segregated.
The stats don't really back that up. According to the episode count archive at SON, KSJ was played in 91 episodes during 2014, for an average of 7.5 episodes per month. Each month has about 21-22 episodes, so just figure he was in 1/3 of the year's episodes. .. And for the first three months of 2015 (Jan - Mar), KSJ has appeared in 28 episodes. So he's actually been averaging 9 episodes a month, since Pratt came in.
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