"“their support would be tempered by the basic fact of soap operas,
which is that many fans love the character first and the actors second.
Super-couple fan bases like Zandall, Liason, JaSam, Nuke, EJami — you
name the couple — love the fantasy, so any actor who flaunts his/her
personal life does so knowing that he/she is breaking the fourth wall
with a small segment of the audience.”"
Yet that doesn't explain why nobody brings up the forth wall when straight actors are upfront about their spouses and their children. Out of these couples I have seen many pictures of Liz from Liason with her spouse and their several children, same for Jason and his spouse.
I like the German model much better where it is much harder to find any private information on the s.o. of any of the actors. You might find throwaway references ("I wrote this song about the situation with my girlfriend at the time", "I was reading my lines to my girlfriend" but you usually have to search for these things with a magnifying glass), but you will not find any pictures or the names of the s.o.s unless that person that the actor is dating is a celeb too. (for example "Sarah" from Forbidden Love is married to a musician, two former actors of VL dated each other and Deniz from AWZ is dating a designer) Meanwhile in the US soap stars constantly drag their spouses and kids to award ceremonies, to super soap weekends and the soap press does home stories on them. How can people claim that there is still a 4th wall in this situation?
I really wish one of the soap mags would try to do a respectable and laid back "gay in the industry" piece and ring up all those "I'm not out, but I'm not closeted either" actors like Tony Geary, Susan Flanner, Ian Buchanon and ask them really lightweight, not to in depth questions. "Hi, we are doing a piece on gay actors in soaps, what I want to know it, what's your favorite kind of dessert? You wouldn't mind if we refered to you as gay in the article, right?".
Yet again with the double standard
"“their support would be tempered by the basic fact of soap operas, which is that many fans love the character first and the actors second. Super-couple fan bases like Zandall, Liason, JaSam, Nuke, EJami — you name the couple — love the fantasy, so any actor who flaunts his/her personal life does so knowing that he/she is breaking the fourth wall with a small segment of the audience.”"
Yet that doesn't explain why nobody brings up the forth wall when straight actors are upfront about their spouses and their children. Out of these couples I have seen many pictures of Liz from Liason with her spouse and their several children, same for Jason and his spouse.
I like the German model much better where it is much harder to find any private information on the s.o. of any of the actors. You might find throwaway references ("I wrote this song about the situation with my girlfriend at the time", "I was reading my lines to my girlfriend" but you usually have to search for these things with a magnifying glass), but you will not find any pictures or the names of the s.o.s unless that person that the actor is dating is a celeb too. (for example "Sarah" from Forbidden Love is married to a musician, two former actors of VL dated each other and Deniz from AWZ is dating a designer) Meanwhile in the US soap stars constantly drag their spouses and kids to award ceremonies, to super soap weekends and the soap press does home stories on them. How can people claim that there is still a 4th wall in this situation?
I really wish one of the soap mags would try to do a respectable and laid back "gay in the industry" piece and ring up all those "I'm not out, but I'm not closeted either" actors like Tony Geary, Susan Flanner, Ian Buchanon and ask them really lightweight, not to in depth questions. "Hi, we are doing a piece on gay actors in soaps, what I want to know it, what's your favorite kind of dessert? You wouldn't mind if we refered to you as gay in the article, right?".