Chandler Massey Dishes Will’s Coming Out Story on DAYS
In an interview with TV Guide, Days of Our Lives’ Chandler Massey previews Will’s coming out story and how his tumultuous relationship with Sami (Alison Sweeney) will impact his search for peace.
TV Guide Magazine: Why is he so worried about what Sami will think? They already have a crappy relationship and he hates her right now after he found her shtupping EJ.
Massey: Sami has her own stuff going on. She's busy with her other three kids who are always going missing or getting kidnapped. In Will's mind, she doesn't care about him enough to be a real help if he came out to her. When a kid is struggling with something this big, his mother, of all people, should sense it. She's supposed to know her child better than anyone else. In Will's case, Sami doesn't give him the maternal love he needs and that's a big reason he doesn't feel comfortable coming out to her. Sami was so young when Will was born that they sort of grew up together.
It isn’t just Will and Sami’s relationship that will factor into the story. According to the interview, Marlena (Deidre Hall) and EJ (James Scott) will provide entirely different dynamics to Will’s coming out story. While Marlena is a loving cornerstone, EJ's role is more down and dirty. When Will attempts to blackmail EJ, “EJ turns the tables on Will and threatens to reveal he's gay. It turns into this master-slave relationship.” Read the entire interview at TV Guide.
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15 January 2009
2 hours 41 min
Now this is a way to take some risk. We don't need any levitating bodies. Watching Will get blackmailed by EJ will be pure classic soap. It's psychological and I love it.
Meanwhile on the CBS sister soap, Villain's of the month must appear to create some low-brow bad drama.
So Kudos to Days for going there!
"Stop the liberal media's assault on the Dimera's!"-- Becker Glenn Show on RWNew.
3 July 2008
14 hours 54 min
I agree ... it's great that DAYS isn't shy about going there and threat that storyline as a really juicy soap story.
The gay stories on ATWT and OLTL were too white washed in my eyes. Nice defenseless gays who come out have a boyfriend (maybe get challenged by psycho daddies or the law) ... and live happily ever after.
Here it's a really psychological written storyline.
What Chandler says about Will being afraid to come out makes so much sense. And he said brilliant things about the road Will has ahead of him.
Going to love every Marlena/Will scene.
I hope so the audience will enjoy it as much and the gay media will appreciate DAYS attempt to write a realistic but still soapy coming out story.
15 January 2009
2 hours 41 min
@soapjunkie88: Well they have told enough cookie-cutter storylines form what has been on air in the past. The last time any risk was taken was making Bianca a member of the Steele-toe-boots club (minus the boots). That's a play on Passion Italian lesbians during the awful Alistair tries to take over the world with a golden chalice.
On a serious note, in the past black/white Interracial pairings suffered though several decades of the typical racism storyline, with the couple riding off the show into the sunset. African American characters were in the past suffering though a social issue as the height of their storylines and then sent off to pasture until fans complained and they cast new characters for the another social issue storyline. We've seen the runaway teens, 'hood sibling vs. Buppie, and partner swooping. Thankfully today we have had more diverse storylines for African Americans and black/white interracial pairings.
So when it comes to the Same Sex Storylines, what Days is doing is going to cross a hump and actually play out something that is much more interconnected to the characters then some isolated "heartwarming" (and I hate heartwarming) Oprah's After-School Special. Or some godawful Lifetime Movie of the Week. Where C-list actresses from the past hope to get Hollywood and Network executives attention with their badly-acted and always-written into the script nervous breakdown scene.
All other soaps take note: This is how you create good controversy with a sensitive issue.
22 January 2011
12 min 50 sec
Goddammit! These new writers have gone and made me a Days addict again like I used to be in the nineties.
It'll be fascinating to see exactly how EJ realizes that Will is gay. Will it be because he sees Will longing and lusting for another hot guy in Salem?
30 November 2007
2 days 2 hours
Days is great right now & I especially loved seeing Will w/Marlena yesterday. I hope she's majorly involved in his story!
25 November 2011
1 year 22 weeks
I'm a young gay man but I'm not really interested in Will's storyline. I'm invested in the supercouples: Carrie/Austin, John/Marlena, Bo/Hope, Jack/Jennifer, and hope the show will continue to focus on them. Will is a good character but better as a supporting player rather than a lead.
23 June 2010
3 hours 19 min
"master and slave relationship"
Excuse me?
4 May 2009
1 hour 35 min
"Master and slave relationship"??
What the hell??
25 November 2011
1 year 22 weeks
"Master and slave" sounds hot, though! Maybe EJ is secretly bi and will blackmail Will into performing sexual favors for him.
4 May 2009
1 hour 35 min
Yes....spacebook1....doing the mom and then her son....kinky!
8 September 2009
3 hours 49 min
Well now that I am "Soap Homeless" thanks to Prospect Park, I watched an episode of Days today...man, they are all so intense on that show, lol!
I think I will Occupy Days for a while, lol!
14 June 2009
3 hours 32 min
Am loving the fact that people are becoming three D on Days. Just like the old days when people were multifaceted. So many years of angel vs devil on this show. Now we have people with issues. People with problems. Good people with moral delimas and bad people who are desperate for love.
Will's inner battle and his exterior missbehaving is a perfect choice for this character. He has for so long repressed anger toward his mom and dad for his upbringing, that was anything but good. He did have some in and out type role models such as Austin and Carrie and Marlena but these people had their own stuff too. So mostly Will just internalized and became the good boy. Sami's most recent antics have unleashed Will's anger. It is a force that he is not controling. I think that the gay issue is not part of his anger but rather part of the repression. He so wants this idealized world where he is a good husband and father some day that he has never stopped to think, "is that what I need in my life?"
I am looking forward to this story playing out but to tell you the truth, I am absolutely glued to the story right now. That and the other stories that Days is presenting. There are a few kinks to work out but they are small. ( John's pleading guilty was kinda short sighted, the internet story is confused at best, did Maggie really need Dr Mcdeath to be her son?).
I am also loving the Jack story line unfolding. I think it is terrific to get inside of THAT head and have Marlena shrink it! He throughout his run on Days has been one of its most psychologically complex characters, so to be exploring that brain, is exciting for me atleast. I could go on, but I just hope that people are catching on to the show because it is rebuilding what it is to be a soap on daytime. And I am watching daily again since I do not remember when!