adamchandler
04-19-2010, 11:55 AM
It’s always huge news when Kate Collins returns to All My Children as that madcap badass Janet (From Another Planet) Dillon. Last seen in 2007 when she was shipped off to the nuthouse, Janet has escaped in a nurse’s uniform and will pop up in Pine Valley April 30—with a vengeance! While institutionalized, Janet was allowed to take computer classes and she learned online that her daughter Amanda—the object of her sick obsession—is now a hotshot fashion model with a child.
“Janet, in her insanity, thinks she can manage Amanda’s career better than anyone else and wants to take her and the grandbaby off to Europe. She’s even made fake passports,” reports Collins. “And of course she sees Amanda’s husband, Jake, as a big threat to all this. He’s an obstacle and he must be dealt with!”
Janet also makes a shocking claim: Back in 2005, she killed Amanda’s father, Trevor, by stuffing him in a meat freezer. Now she says she did it because Amanda didn’t love her as much as she loved Trevor. “It’s very intense,” Collins says. “I don’t know how Amanda will ever be able to cope with that. After this, any kind of reconciliation between those two is probably impossible.”
Collins is such a puzzlement. She always attacks this role with great relish, giving a dazzling and hilarious performance, yet she is, in essence, retired from the profession. She lives in Chicago, with her theatre director husband Charles Newell, and their two sons. How can somebody that good be so uninterested in a career?
“I was so happy to give it all up to be a mom and a wife, and to live in a community that we love,” Collins says. “And I still get to come play and be Janet sometimes! How cool is that? I have the best of both worlds, and without all the angst that comes when you’re trying to parlay a career. I don’t have to worry if my skin is beauteously clear. I don’t have to worry about weighing too much. I don’t have to worry about trying to look younger at auditions. That’s very liberating! And I think it makes me a better actor.”
http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/kate-collins-returns-to-all-my-children-4711.html
“Janet, in her insanity, thinks she can manage Amanda’s career better than anyone else and wants to take her and the grandbaby off to Europe. She’s even made fake passports,” reports Collins. “And of course she sees Amanda’s husband, Jake, as a big threat to all this. He’s an obstacle and he must be dealt with!”
Janet also makes a shocking claim: Back in 2005, she killed Amanda’s father, Trevor, by stuffing him in a meat freezer. Now she says she did it because Amanda didn’t love her as much as she loved Trevor. “It’s very intense,” Collins says. “I don’t know how Amanda will ever be able to cope with that. After this, any kind of reconciliation between those two is probably impossible.”
Collins is such a puzzlement. She always attacks this role with great relish, giving a dazzling and hilarious performance, yet she is, in essence, retired from the profession. She lives in Chicago, with her theatre director husband Charles Newell, and their two sons. How can somebody that good be so uninterested in a career?
“I was so happy to give it all up to be a mom and a wife, and to live in a community that we love,” Collins says. “And I still get to come play and be Janet sometimes! How cool is that? I have the best of both worlds, and without all the angst that comes when you’re trying to parlay a career. I don’t have to worry if my skin is beauteously clear. I don’t have to worry about weighing too much. I don’t have to worry about trying to look younger at auditions. That’s very liberating! And I think it makes me a better actor.”
http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps/kate-collins-returns-to-all-my-children-4711.html