Was landing a role on As the World Turns a big moment for you, then?


It was a tough thing because the day that I got that job, I had no money. As in N-O. The day that I got that job, I got a job at a regional theater in Portland, Maine, doing Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July for a few hundred dollars a week. That was a really tough call. Doing a play for seven weeks, or doing this contract on a soap. I didn’t want to — I thought, “Oh man, I’m gonna be a soap actor forever!” and it freaked me out. Actually, there was a real silver lining in that because you work in front of a camera all of the time, you get to be comfortable with it, in a good way, where you’re not concentrating on that but concentrating on other things. But I don’t know if there ever was a moment. I’m not sure I’m there yet, of feeling like I’ve had the moment, like, this is it.

http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/drive-angrys-william-fichtner-plays-my-favorite-scene-recalls-rocky-soap-opera-beginnings.php

http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/03/images/fichtner225.jpg

He has acted in sooo many things over the years, yet I can never remember his name! :eek:

I so remember when he was on ATWT. He played Josh Snyder/Rod Landry, and did a great job. Probably the only time people felt sympathy for a rapist, but he did try to amend the mistakes he made.



Would have been cool if they would have brought him back one last time before the show got axed.

Actually I hated that character and I resented the way we were all supposed to feel sorry for him. The writers really pushed that angle, but it never washed for me. A rapist is a rapist; if he had served time for his crime, then maybe, but my recollection is that he never did.