Writing Scott Evans character of Oliver Fish out of One Life to Live has got to be one of the biggest bonehead decisions in the history of daytime soaps.
The character had been on such a journey and had managed to continue to do his job as a police officer as he came to terms with his sexuality.
The exit of Fish and boyfriend Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell) still makes many fans of One Live to Live absolutely furious.But Evans has moved on.
AfterElton.com’s Gays of Our Lives column reports that the actor will appear in the gay indie film The One, which will also star hunky Jon Prescott as Evans’ love interest.
Prescott recently appeared on As the World Turns where he played Mike Kasnoff and One Life to Live where he played persistently shirtless pool boy Chad.
The movie is described as “a quick-witted, tender romantic dramedy about a young, successful Manhattan investment banker who lives the charmed Upper East Side Manhattan life about to marry the woman of his dreams who, a month before his wedding, meets and unexpectedly falls in love with a charismatic man from his past.”
Evans and Prescott will reportedly have three love scenes. Hot!
Filming starts on the movie in June.
As last night’s episode of Brothers & Sisters drew to a close, Kevin and Scotty were laying on their bed looking at books of baby names. They even kissed!
What is the world coming to? Reality, I'd say!
Brothers and Sisters creators and writers have allowed the relationship and now marriage of Kevin (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty (Luke Macfarlane) to grow over four seasons into the happiest and most solid of all of the Walker siblings.
The happy couple has been trying to have a baby via surrogate and on Sunday’s episode, found out that they are going to become daddies!
This is a beautiful thing and such a contrast to how poorly ABC daytime handled the relationship between Oliver (Scott Evans) and Kyle (Brett Claywell) by writing them off On
e Life to Live just as they welcomed Oliver’s baby daughter into their lives. The show blamed the gay storyline for a rating plummet but now ratings are even lower.
It’s just so nice to have things being handled differently in ABC primetime.
Brett Claywell’s last appearance as Kyle Lewis on One Life to Live is on April 12th. We all know it’s a dumb move by the show’s producers and the network which has alienated a huge segment of new fans by writing off Kyle and his boyfriend Oliver Fish played by Scott Evans.
But if we have to look at the bright side, the story gave us the opportunity to not only fall in love with the characters, but also with the wonderful actors who inhabit them. Both have built a tremendous fan base that will no doubt follow whatever they do in the future.
Brett, who is straight in real life, has been so articulate about how playing this gay man has changed his life and it makes a lot of us so grateful that the role of Kyle was in such good hands.
Here is an excerpt of an interview Brett has done with Entertainment Weekly:
Why do you think Kish resonated with fans?
We were the first [gay] love scene in daytime. It had a lot to do with the writing, but it also has a lot to do with the way Scott and I played the roles. We made a choice in the beginning that we were going to underplay a lot of this storyline. We just wanted it to be really honest and really authentic and just simple. Just tell a love story. That was the most important thing to communicate — love between two men, honestly, on television. I think that people really responded to that because there weren’t a lot of bells and whistles.
Why the decision to go with a sex scene?
I don’t think they were intentionally building towards something. I think that scene came because of fan reaction. It was more from demand than anything. Because there is a community out there, a large percentage of people who are misrepresented in media, in television, in all forms of art.
Did you think the sex scene was explicit?
No. I keep saying that if you take Milk and you take Brokeback Mountain and you take the work we did, I feel like we stand toe-to-toe with the work that was done. But we told the story differently. The love scene between Oliver and Kyle…it was a moment where one man was finally coming to terms with sexuality after years of denying it and after his family disowns him. He was finally coming to terms and accepting the fact that he is comfortable with this man loving him. For Kyle, my character, it was a moment to be nurturing and loving towards somebody who’s going through a really hard moment to become comfortable with himself.
Read the rest of the interview at Entertainment Weekly.
Writing Scott Evans character of Oliver Fish out of One Life to Live has got to be one of the biggest bonehead decisions in the history of daytime soaps.
