NEED TO KNOW
- The Daring and the Lovely star Heather Tom opened as much as ipromiseyoumedia in regards to the present’s controversial storyline with Will Spencer (Crew Morrow) and Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada)
- Tom performs Will’s mom, Katie Logan, who helps her son after Luna has intercourse with him when he is drunk
- Tom mentioned she “would view” the scenario as “sexual assault”
The Daring and the Lovely is thought for its controversial storylines, and followers have lots to say in regards to the latest plot involving Will Spencer (Crew Morrow) and Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada).
Heather Tom, who performs Will’s mother Katie Logan and can also be a author and director of the sequence, spoke to ipromiseyoumedia in regards to the plot that started this summer time. Luna, obsessive about Will, pretended to be his girlfriend, Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace), and had intercourse with him when he was drunk, in the end getting pregnant along with his child. Many followers on-line have criticized how the storyline has been dealt with, for the reason that present has chosen to not name the encounter “rape,” however as an alternative has characters say that Luna “took benefit” of Will.
“To be trustworthy, if it had been my son, I might view what occurred as a problem of consent and that there wasn’t a lot consent taking place in that occasion,” Tom, 50, mentioned. “And so yeah, I might view it as a sexual assault.”
She continued, “I believe that the terminology is what they’ve chosen to make use of, and I believe that individuals can, characters can defend that or not.” As for her character, she mentioned, “Katie does get to the place she does undoubtedly suppose that her son was assaulted. She undoubtedly makes use of that terminology. She undoubtedly didn’t essentially begin off there.”
“However I believe that for me personally, as an individual, as a girl, as a mom, consent is essential to me,” she mentioned. She welcomed son Zane in 2012 with husband James Achor. “I’ve talked about consent with my son from the very starting.” She mentioned it was “essential” for her to verify it’s one thing he understood early.
“It is one thing that me, rising up, it was not essentially on the forefront of how we had been raised and the way society noticed it and the way folks spoke about issues,” she mentioned. “However for me it is rather vital . . . I exploit this terminology with my baby, and I believe that it undoubtedly will not be a gender-conditional factor.” She mentioned in the end the dialog across the plot is “sophisticated.”
In October, Luna was arrested on the present, not for the incident with Will however for her different crimes (together with a kidnapping and capturing), although Will’s family members had been glad to see her face the results. Tom’s Katie tells Luna she is going to “by no means” settle for her in Will’s life, though she’s pregnant. Will tells her, “You disgust me.”
Tom mentioned that The Daring and the Lovely has at all times been “on the forefront of tackling points that perhaps did not make their method onto nighttime tv.” She thinks as a result of the characters are “so acquainted to our viewers,” the writers can have them “undergo one thing” intense and discover it in a deeper method. “I really feel like soaps have at all times been on the forefront of that,” she mentioned.
However followers nonetheless need the present to be satisfying. “[Executive producer] Brad [Bell] at all times says that in no matter scene you are in, even when it is an argument, it is nonetheless a love story. It is nonetheless a love scene. I believe that is what folks wish to join with.”
Tom additionally relishes working with Crew, who’s the son of The Younger and the Stressed star Joshua Morrow. Tom started her cleaning soap profession on Y&R 35 years in the past as Victoria Newman, the sister of Joshua’s Nicholas Newman.
“It is just like the craziest full circle factor ever as a result of I keep in mind when Crew was born,” she mentioned. “However I really like having him right here. I believe he is a terrific addition. I am so glad that they waited to forged Will and that they are fleshing out Invoice and Katie’s household and the Spencers.”
Nonetheless, working with Crew can sometimes be slightly spooky. “When he first began, he would snicker or smile and it could take me out of the scene as a result of I would be like, ‘Oh my God, it is Joshua.’ He is so his father’s son, it is loopy.”
The Daring and the Lovely airs weekdays on CBS and streams the subsequent day on Paramount+.