Latest / The Daytime Emmys Specials / 2025 Daytime Emmy Nominee Gregory Harrison

Transcript

2025 Daytime Emmy Nominee Gregory Harrison · The Daytime Emmys Specials

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: So do you want to do you want a full transparency. Yeah,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: you are the main reason I wanted to come to
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: the fifty second daytime any awards.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Is that I get blame or credit for that.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: You get blamed and you get credit. You've we've seen
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: you in Hallmark. You know you need to do more Hallmark.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: By the way, are you listening more harm or Hallmark?
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: We need to do more Hallmark with me.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's up to them, you know, But but I
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: have a you know, I've done a lot of Hallmark
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: and I and series and movies and guest shots and
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: and uh, I.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Think you know, it's cyclical.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: You know, it's been a little while since I did
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: the last hallmarky thing, but I would love to do more.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: And uh and I love that audience. That's they're almost
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: as as avid and loyal as the soap audience.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Very good point.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Almost.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: What was your experience like on jener Hospital?
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: Oh man, you want to I mean that's three and
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: a half years.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: So terrifying to begin with, because I had never done
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: a soap before. I had never memorized thirty pages a
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: day before. I mean I'd done theater where I would
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: memorize two and a half hours, but I had four
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: or five weeks to rehearse it and memorize it. And
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: I had done seven or eight pages a day on
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: you know, a dozen different series over the last forty years.
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: I've never done thirty pages a day with one run
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: through and then shoot it and no second takes.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: So it was.
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: Terrifying to me. How good can can I be? How
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: good can someone be? Well, it turns out if you
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: do enough homework, if you if you have a certain
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: skill set and you're not afraid to work hard, you
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: can be pretty good.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: And I learned that.
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: Soap actors have a whole skill set that many actors
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: just can't can't rise to it.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: And I struggled with it, but I found it.
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: And h and I got nomination, So I guess I
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: did it all right.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: I had a lot of fun, and particularly in the
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: last year, playing this dramatic role of a guy who's
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: declining and and enlarging his himself at the same time,
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: kind of balancing that scale and that the nuance and
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: the incremental adjustments, calibrations of that. I'm gonna get in
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: a bunch of actors speak, But that for me is
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: the fun of acting, and the writers worked.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: With me on it, and and.
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: I was I had an I saw it as an
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: opportunity to spend a year of my life calibrating, fine tuning,
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: little little adjustments as this man is slowly declining in
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: health but enlarging.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: In spirit, and that to me was the reward. So
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: this is just icing, double icing on the cake.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: I have to express as a viewer, the journey was
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: heartbreaking and shocking to watch. We weren't expecting that curve ball.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Oh well he's been diagnosed. But are we fine it's
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: a soap opera, or he'll be fine misdiagnosed?
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, a lot of people were writing, Come on, it
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: was a misdiagnosis, right, it's not.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: What was it like working with Jane Elliott because the
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: two of you are magic together?
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Well we felt it. I felt it.
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: I don't want to speak for Jane, but Jane being
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: allowed to step out of that tracy portermin matriarchal hard
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: ass into a seventeen year old with a crush was.
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: So fun to watch.
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: I can only think it must have been fun for
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: her to play, and she doesn't get those opportunities very often,
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: hasn't been a long time, so we had the best time.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: And that was really probably the worst part of.
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: Me finally dying off is that I didn't get to
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: play with Jane anymore because I was having so much
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: fun with her.
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: It was so much fun flirting.
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: It turned me into like a seventeen year old as well,
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: you know, my character, and I miss it.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: I miss that. I hope she's here tonight. I hope
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: I get to give her a hug and rasser a
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, treated her like the seventeen year old that
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: she is inside inside.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah again, we miss you on the canvas terribly, so
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: nothing's impossible on daytime television and soopah.
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: Ever, no, you know, I hear ghosts are coming back
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: and all kinds of things. So who knows. I may
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: have a twin brother somewhere that shows up love that,
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe a guy with a biker with a
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: like Hell's Angela's patch on the back, and then.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: We will take you anyway we got Yeah, okay, I'm gay.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much at the scene here bike or Doppelgeer,
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: thank you so much. Wonderful time and congratulations.
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: All right,