How's it feel to play a lady gangster? Usually the women in crime families are home, in deep denial, making the pasta! There are no rules when you've been raised in a world like that - and that's very freeing as an actor. How do you make sure that the audience doesn't turn on you? Mobsters go home to their families at night and eat dinner, just like you and me. Sometimes I'll see a magazine article where they'll say Maura West and in parentheses they have "ex-Carly ATWT" and "ex-Diane Y&R" and I'll go, "Huh?" I met some wonderful people at Y&R but that experience is not something my heart aches over, not something I miss at all. Clearly there was no intention to make Diane a viable character at that time, so I probably would have been off by now anyway. [...] there was a GH storyline [in 1990] where Julian killed their sister, Olivia, because she wanted to be boss. Basically, she was there to drop off Kiki [Kristen Alderson] and then leave town. [...] we can't exactly credit the contract to your stellar performance? Really! [Laughs] In fact, I only started piecing it together after I saw that Roger Howarth's [Todd] hair was suddenly a different color. How do you come onto a soap and take it over - let's face it, you have! - without pissing off your costars? Tony and Jane Elliot [Tracy] were so embracing and kind to me and that really made a big difference because they have power and they can really shape your experience there. Bottom line, the goal is the same for everybody on the show - to make a good product. Did you ever consider laying off the daytime soaps for a while and taking a shot at primetime?
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