Gays of Our Lives: Part Two of our Interview with Thore Schölermann and Jo Weil

This week in Gays of Our Lives …

First up, I’ve got the second part of my interview with Forbidden Love stars Jo Weil and Thore Schölermann. In GOOL THEATER, Noah learns the truth about Luke and Reid on As the World Turns and Aaron makes his case to Jackson on Emmerdale. In GOOL SCOOPS AND SPOILERS, Roman can’t stay away from Marc on All That Matters and Carsten gets bad news about Lenny on Good Times, Bad Times (German). In GOOL NEWSBEAT, some bad news about Les Bleus, some good news about Glee and find out what Scott Evans is up to after One Life to Live.

All this – and more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
OUR INTERVIEW WITH JO & THORE (PART TWO)
GOOL THEATER
SCOOPS & SPOILERS
GOOL SNEAK PEEKS
GOOL NEWSBEAT
SNAPSHOTS

INTERVIEW WITH THORE SCHÖLERMAN AND JO WEIL

This week we continue with Part 2 of our interview with Forbidden Love’s Thore Schölermann and Jo Weil (Part One is here). We’ve got plenty to cover so let’s get right to it!

AE: After having such a huge storyline, you were sort of background material for a very long time. The fans hated it, but how did you feel about being on the backburner and not working?

JW: We hated it. It’s a soap opera and there are 24 characters, and it’s clear that you can’t be on the front all the time, but we love what we do and we love to film a lot, and during the time we didn’t have that much to do, it was kind of boring from time to time. At least we had the chance to do a lot of press stuff during this time, and we went to events and did charity work, so we had something to do.

TS: The directors hated us because we had nothing to do and we we’re playing around in the background and they were like ‘no, no, no… you have to stop that, because the focus is not on you’

JW: Yeah, even when you’re in the back, you have to play your part. When you’re in the back, you think ‘okay, it’s not that important, but even when you’re in the background you still have a role to play.

TS: And there are things that are important like touching each other or playing with each other, like small little things that you have when you are in a partnership. It’s very important.

AE: Those type of intimacies that you guys have with each other do you come up with that stuff or is it in the script?

JW: Sometimes it’s in the script where it says ‘Christian and Olli kiss each other’ or ‘Christian and Olli touch each other’. But many times we just do it because it just seems like what they would do depending on the scene. It’s not always in the script.

TS: When you’re in a partnership for a long time there are things you do all the time. Like we have some habits. Like we had a scene in a bathtub and we said ‘okay we are talking in the bathroom’ and it was our idea to have them in the bathtub.