Rebecca Budig on All My Children Future and Missing Greenlee's Sense of Humor
Will Rebecca Budig be making the leap to the web with All My Children? TV Line's Megan Masters tried to find out in a recent chat with the soap starlet, who revealed her thoughts on the move online, plus her feelings about how the character of Greenlee has been written in recent years.
TVLINE | It’s pretty common for actors to become attached to the characters they play over extended periods of time, so are you interested in staying with All My Children when — or if — it moves to the Internet? Or had you already accepted that this chapter in your life had ended when AMC‘s finale was set?
Yes! You are very intuitive. [Laughs] The truth is that in my head, I have moved on — and I think most of [the cast] had wrapped our heads around this. I’m a believer that change is good and that things happen for a reason, but I will never say never, because you never know. These [Prospect Park] guys are smart and I think they know what they’re doing. It’s super-ambitious and innovative and a new frontier — and I feel like All My Children is the perfect choice to start an online network. It’s gone from radio to TV and now to the Internet, so it kind of makes sense.
On the writing for Greenlee:
TVLINE | Have you heard the latest reports that have Prospect Park courting cable channels to air the episodes after they debut online? If they locked in something like that, would you more seriously consider sticking with All My Children?
Wow. Gosh, I don’t know. I love the show and I’m so grateful for everything it’s done for me. I lived my twenties in New York and I had a great job — there’s no better way to grow up. But Greenlee hasn’t been written for recently the way she was written for when she was with Leo, and that’s what I really loved to do. It’s actually what I came back to do [when I rejoined AMC in 2009]. But it never really happened, and that’s a big factor to me. It’s not about the money, it’s that I want to sink my teeth into something. Greenlee was so funny before, but she lost her sense of humor. They do write funny stuff for her opposite Erica (Susan Lucci), I will say that. [Laughs]
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12 February 2010
14 hours 40 min
I love Rebecca, even though I might not always like GreenMe. She will probably end up flying the coup, and who can blame her? She's already left twice. I will follow her career wherever it ends up next.
30 August 2009
1 year 17 weeks
I know i'm being overly picky, but I hope she was referring to soaps as a whole when she said it's gone from radio to television, etc etc. Because AMC was never on the radio...
23 July 2011
1 year 36 weeks
To funny AMC was never on radio it seems poor Rebecca isn't up on her AMC history. lol
16 September 2010
3 weeks 23 hours
I'm going to give Rebecca the benefit of the doubt, as she was Michelle on Guiding Light first; she could have been reflecting on her entire soap career, and in that vein talked about soaps as a whole beginning on radio.
8 September 2009
3 min 4 sec
Come on guys, cut her some slack. She meant the genre going from radio to Tv and now internet. I agree her talent has been wasted on AMC for the past 6 years. I wanted classic blonde, bitchy, funny, quirky Greenlee instead of this Stepford Wife of Ryan that we got.
I also liked Sabine Singh's version (runs and hides!)
14 June 2011
1 hour 1 min
I actually didn't mind Sabine Singh's take on Greenlee either. She seemed to have a "softer", less "brisk" delivery of the character. During her time at AMC, I never had the feeling that she would be "locked-in" to the role. As well, the way she approached Greens didn't make me think she was just a "seat warmer" till Rebecca B. came back.