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OLTL's SCOTT EVANS & BRETT CLAYWELL!

Involved in one of the most talked about couples/storylines that is happening in daytime television, Brett Claywell and Scott Evans join BuzzWorthy Radio to dish it out!

As one-half of "KISH," Brett plays the role of Kyle Lewis on ABC Daytime's One Life to Live. The other is that of Scott Evans, in the role of Oliver Fish.

Claywell was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. In high school he played both basketball and soccer. He has even travelled abroad to play soccer. He was also known as the class clown. After high school he attended college at North Carolina State University, where he graduated with a major in architecture and a minor in theatre. While at NC State he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Born in Massachusetts, Scott, younger brother of Chris Evans, began playing the role of Fish in 2008. Initially only brought on for just 5 episodes, he was featured more predominantly on the show. Evans studied theater at NYU.

Have all of your KISH questions answered as BWR sits down with two of OLTL's shining stars, Brett Claywell & Scott Evans!

Duration:: 32m
Broadcast on:: 05 Feb 2010
Audio Format:: other

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That's not a word you usually associated with me, but I'll take it. Do you know the surprise that I told you that I had for you? Yeah, I remember you doing it tonight. All right. Well, how about the fact that I bring on your surprise right now? I know you guys were only expecting Brett today, but I managed to finagle a little something for you. Not only you're going to get one half a kiss, you're going to get the other half of Kish. Hello? How are you doing? Oh, can you hear me? Am I coming through? You are coming through. Hi, Brett. How are you? Surprise. Hi, Scott. See, how you doing there, buddy? You liked that, didn't you? You liked that. Actually, I saw I heard it in the background of a phone line or two nights ago. So that's as close as I've gotten to Scott in a while. Yeah, I said, you know, he's here, you know, we have Brett here. I was like, you know, why don't I try? Why don't I try to get Scott here to join her? And I didn't think it was going to happen. I had no clue that this was going to, this was going to pan out. I just said, you know, I'll just run with it. Here comes an email. He emails me and he says, what do I have to do? What do I have to call? I'm like, are you serious? Those are the first words out of my mouth. I'm like, are you serious? Really? Well, you're lucky. Yeah, yeah, you're lucky he doesn't have a dodge ball game right now, because that was a good one. This is great. I got both of the guys here. This is awesome. I'm loving it. Scott Evans, everybody, he plays Oliver Fish Fish every time I think of fish. I think of getting some fish, but I do. I'm not lying. I think of fish, but you were involved in one of the most talked about story lines that's going on on one of my kids right now. I'm a huge fan of it, and I know a lot of people on Twitter are loving it as well. Basically, you guys have set the bar in daytime television where you actually got to have same sex sex scene. Yes, we did talk about, which was talked about for like, how long now? I mean, it's been everywhere. You know, it got YouTube five minutes after it aired, and I'm probably not even giving it that much justice. I was probably not even giving it that much justice, but it was incredible that we were actually able to see something like that. When the script came, and you guys found out that you were going to do this, and not just that, but it was going to be approved to be shown on television, what were your initial thoughts when that happened? Well, I think when we first got it, we were, you know, we were expecting it to happen eventually. We just didn't know when, and then it happened, and it was kind of, you know, right around the time all that stuff was happening with Adam Lambert at the MABC and everything, and so I was nervous. I didn't know what was going to happen and didn't think it was going to be possible, but I'm glad that it all turned out well. Absolutely. I mean, I think we were a little apprehensive about everything leading up to it just because the entire ride was kind of wild for both of us, but we were really, really happy with the result, and I don't even think either of us really knew how big the implications were when we filmed it. Not at all, not at all. It just felt like the natural evolution of the story, and it felt like the timing was right, and it's funny because even as an actor, even though the relationship's not real, it honestly, you start having real emotions about the intimate scenes that you have. Like, you honestly start thinking, "Are we rushing this?" Or, "No, it's the right time." It actually felt like a real relationship where you're like, "You know what, it's the right time. We waited, we've been patient." It felt like that, so it kind of felt like it was just perfect in the evolution of the story, and we had no idea it was going to be what it was. And at the time of actually shooting it, I don't think we also had any idea in our heads that it was the first same-time sex scene or whatever it was, because I think when we found that out after, we were kind of like, "Oh, oh, man, I wonder, would I have done this differently?" You know, knowing that, but it's cool, it's very funny. Yeah, we were both definitely saying that like, we're kind of glad we didn't know that, because it might have been an extra pressure. Yeah. See, I have to admit, when I first got treated to seeing Brett on my life list, and I mean, I knew Brett from before when I watched him on those couple of times and instances on one tree hill, and the first emergence of Kyle Lewis, I had no idea that it was going to go this route, because it was good. I did. Really, I was going like, "Wow, they're going to put these two guys together." Well, I do. I do. And all I kept going was like, "Wow, they're going to put these guys together." I wonder if they're going to have that chemistry and everything that's going to basically come from a relationship. Everything going to be good together. Is it going to spark? Is it going to fire and everything? And as soon as we saw the episode where Kyle just impromptu kisses fish, right there, I was sunk in, pretty much. Oh, good. Nail in the coffin. Well, good. We, I mean, Scott and I have a really good. We've developed a really strong friendship, and that's, I mean, that's the, I think that everything can be a test to do that because, you know, whether or not we're in a romantic relationship or whether or not we're friends, you both, you know, both relationships require some sort of come out or you're some sort of ability to communicate to each other. And we really get along. And so, that's a big part of it that we can get along on the set and off the set and we really became comfortable each other really quickly. Right. And I'll tell you, I'll tell you about, I think that, David, you're talking about the kiss and the 1S, theis alleyway. I think that might have been the day also for me and Brett. That was sort of like, "Okay, here we go. This is happening." Like, you know, because leading up to it, we didn't necessarily know. We didn't really know backstory or anything. And then that day was kind of like, "All right." And we move forward. So, I think... That was the first drop on the roller coaster. That was the big first drop on the roller coaster. I mean, we were up in the air and we were screaming. Really? Well, I mean, not so much. I was the messenger. I actually got a question from names Heather. Heather wants to know from both of you, "What is it like to be on a soap opera?" Well. Oh, well. Brett, you want to take it? No, soap operas are completely different from anything. It's its own entity. I mean, when people look at actors, they think, you know, and even before, I think I probably was the same way. I would look at theater and film and television and daytime and all of these things is like, "Well, it's acting. It's the same performance." So, soap operas require a completely different process, a completely different performance. You, you know, to memorize so many lines and so short of time and you spend more time memorizing your lines than you actually do performing them. Which I think is probably the only media in our industry in the acting profession where that actually is true. Because we, you know, you spend 10 minutes or five minutes or 10 minutes running over each scene, but then you only film it for one take. So, it's actually, the preparation is much more important, you know, is the utmost importance on this, convey to a lot of other things. And it's just the pace is insane. But when I'm really blessed to work with somebody like Scott, not just because he's on the phone, I may be nice for you to be one of them. But I'm really blessed to work with somebody like Scott because he and I work the same almost. We're very, you know, it makes it a lot easier when the person you're working opposite kind of gets you and you guys kind of have a rhythm together. So, it's a very, you know, we do have a very, a very similar process. We don't have to like, you know, there are certain people that want to be constantly running lines or, or not at all. And we, you know, there's times we run the lines before we do it. And it just gets to a point where we both feel like, all right, we had it, we're good. And it's never one person wants more, one person wants less. So, it's a really good give and take with me and Brett. And I am. Absolutely, and we're, and you're just being like, you're here. And it's also good because some days the scenes are kind of important to me. And some days the scenes are really important to him or they're important to both of us. And we both really work with each other. It's, we're both really open to help each other and, and kind of make sure each of us is really happy with the work once we leave that day. So, right. The mutual commitment. Very, very good. Very, very good. And, and God, I got to welcome to you to the ranks of Twitter before I go on. I got to welcome you to the ranks of Twitter. I don't know how you got involved in that, but you're now going to become addicted. I'm terrified. I can't say I'm terrified so far. I didn't even realize all this. When people put the little ad symbol and you're seeing, and there's like a different page you go to when people, and I just went to it. Just recently, I saw these things and I'm like, oh, great. I don't know where to see when people are talking to me. So, I'm learning. I'm learning. I'll get Brett to teach me. No, trust me. I've been on forever, but the only thing I do is I have it hooked up to my fan page. So, every time I write on my fan page, it writes on my Twitter, I have no idea about Twitter. I have no clue. Let's call it. I've heard I swear I can ask Kristen Alders, and I heard she's a pro. Oh, yes. I'm sure she is. Yes, she is. And, you know, we have to, one of these days, we're going to have to sit down and just basically have a one-on-one Twitter session with the VOCA. So, you'll know exactly how it, how to clear everybody. Yes. They're probably on Twitter. I can probably teach you in half an hour. Yeah. So, I mean, I am so lying. I mean, I know it's going to be it's going to be a new addiction for me, and it's pretty dangerous, and we'll see where it goes. The only thing that I ask my students is that, if I teach you, you must follow me. That's all you must do. Not pulling your arm or anything. All right. All right. Okay. Very good. Very good. I was wondering if he would take that hit. Yes. Yes. Yes. So, what exactly can we expect from Kish coming up? Are we going to see them with that happily ever after life? Are we going to see if we're going to have the problems or anything that we can look forward to coming up on the show, if you can say. I don't know what we are allowed, and not allowed to say. I mean, we don't want to give away too much, but the happily ever after is something that you guys are going to have to wait for as much as we're going to have to wait for. We don't necessarily know. We have our hopes and our dreams, what we would like to have happen with the story. But over the next couple of weeks, you're definitely going to see all this baby drama unraveling and what actually is going to happen with it and what they decide to do. It's actually, Brett and I, we shot some really really cool scenes with all of the drama, and I'm excited for those to Eric so I want to see how they turned out. But, you know, like anything, a baby causes. The problem doesn't always cause problems, but can cause problems. I don't expect a baby can cause problems in a relationship, and I think, you know, you'll see, you'll see this our relationship gets, you know, stronger, and you see some real arguments and some real love, and it's great, and we had a lot of fun doing it, so I'm excited to see it. I was going to say, is that what you guys expect to see as far? Mine is the baby thing. Mine is the baby thing. But you guys expect to see that in the relationship is to explore all pretty much everything. The ups and the downs, the love, the fights, and all that stuff, pretty much. What's happening now with the couple? This is what you want, basically. Well, we just, I mean, we got in this to explore, you know, you want to explore every level of a relationship. You want to try to remain as true to, you know, what happens in real life, and try to tell a story accurately, and, you know, you don't want to skip steps, and that's kind of what we're hoping. We're hoping that we get to continue this journey, because most people think in daytime, okay, well, all of the story is leading up to the relationship, but once you get together, people get bored. You know, that's what a lot of the, that's what a lot of people say, and I really doubt that what happened with Scott and I, and we just hope that they, you know, just hope that they write the story to continue the relationship and all of its glory, you know, the arguments and the love, and the fights, and the reconciliation, and everything that goes along with the relationship, and I'm hoping that that happens. Very good. I like that, I like that. And, man, work questions coming up in my chat room here. Scott, is it fun playing a cop? Yes, actually, and it's funny. And one of my, one of my good family friends, when I was just home Massachusetts, only my mom's good friends, she is a police officer, actually, actually, and she works with an out gay male cop, and he, I asked her to have an email me, and he just did, and it's, it's cool. It was really cool hearing, like, real life experiences and what's going on, but, you know, it's playing a police officer. I, when I first started, it was kind of like, okay, cool, I'm playing a police officer, and then all of a sudden, all this other storyline, you know, being a gay man on the show now, and it's, it's really great because I think there's a lot of society, societal things that go along with it, and it's fun playing that side of the, of the drama. Nice, nice, and this is for both of you. This is from Sarah, she wants to know, other than each other, who are your favorite one-night-to-the-cast members to work with, or would like to work with, if you haven't gotten the chance to? Go ahead, Scott. Let's see, well, you know, everyone, I, I, being, being the police officer, I get lucky that I get to work with a lot of people, whether it's just me showing up and taking down their statement, I get to work with a lot of them, in that respect, but, you know, I, I really, Tika, Tika, something in David Romero, I, you know, live with them now on the show, they're, they're so much fun, and Tika's sort of been there since, you know, I first joined, and she's always been, she's always been a longtime favorite of mine. Tika, Tika is, I think, Tika is one of our, we had to fill out a relationship thing, and, and find the things that both Brett and Scott are very fond of, Tika, Sumpter would be high up on that list. Definitely love working with that girl. I think for me, it would be Bob Woods. I don't get to work with Bob enough. I love Bob. I sit, we sit in the hallway and have the longest conversations. He's, like, he's, I got one day of work with him, and it was, it was, it was one of my most fun days of work, just because he, he has so much to learn from this man on set, but, you know, in my first day with him, he was so giving and, and such a generous actor, which is rare. I, I really wish I could work with Bob Woods more. So basically you're jealous because I get to work with him all the time. I am very, I am very jealous. I am extremely jealous, and I write in my diary every night. You write in your diary and I, I wish I could work with Bob Woods. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. The answers for working with Bob Woods every single day in that cop uniform. That's probably what it says in, in the journal, too. Am I, am I close or am I way off? It's all good. Okay. There we go. Oh, man. We got a, we got a person. I'm sorry if I'm going to mess up your name. Believe me, I know the feeling of Natalie Acosta or Natali, how are you? Natali Acosta. I, she is, yes, she's from Argentina. I could tell you where she's from. Excuse me. She's a, she's a very, she's a very, a very little fan, and I, right, right back and forth with her a lot on Facebook. So I absolutely know who she is. Yeah. I think, yeah. She just said she, that we've, we've reached Latin America. She's from Buenos Aires. She just put that on my Twitter. Wow. Twitter's incredible. You're actually watching on your own paying attention on Twitter. I know it's got, that's all you do. You already know more than I do. I'm learning. I'm learning. You're already past me. That's sad. I've never looked at my Twitter account. I don't even know how to do that. You're seriously sitting there right now looking, I mean, it's different for me for me to do it, but you're sitting there right now looking at your Twitter. Well, I just, I was like, somebody was like, what's the buzzworthy radio station? How do I find it? And I'm sitting here trying to find it to tell them, and I have no idea. Because I can't work Twitter. I can't work it. I want to know, I bet you it's Natalie, Natali. It might be Natali, but I want to ask her question. I'm very serious. She wants to know, how do you channel your emotions before doing a scene? See, she's good. She'd have like at least a good question. I knew that. You know, I think that, I mean, I can only speak for myself. I don't know what else Scott would answer this, but I feel like before a scene, I don't know. I can't attest to how everyone else works, but for me personally, I kind of just in the moments during a scene and leading up to a scene. I mean, I guess we just, I'm trying to figure out how to answer that question, because I don't do a lot of sensory work. I don't do a lot of sensory preparation, and there's all these different, you know, there's all these different techniques you can use to get in the right emotional space before a scene. So, Papa's aren't really the place where you have the time to do that. I think Scott and I just, I think on a deeper level, which is part of the blessing of working with each other, I think. I think on a deeper level, we're both, you know, we're both sensitive men, we're both strong men, we're both sensitive men, and I think that we really connect on a deeper level that's not just on the surface. I think there's, emotionally, we really actually do connect very well. So, I think that it's less how do we prepare for those scenes before and more. More the answer is that we just really are connected to each other and to the work in the moment. And it really is just fluid and organic and natural, and there's been times where Scott has cried and I absolutely didn't expect it. And there were times where I've cried, where I didn't expect it, there's been times where it's just organic. We just go with it and we work really well together that we can both kind of follow and we can both lead depending on the moment. And I think that's why the work at times is so like in the scene, then at the game, the big game wedding ceremony, and it sounds like it sounds like my big fat Greek wedding, I'm sure we can we can write a whole different movie now. You know, when I go up to Scott and go up the olive oil and kind of get up the olive oil and confessing the love, like I really didn't expect it to be emotionally overwhelming. I wasn't intending to break and to, you know, have tears and everything like that, but it happened. And I think it's just because the connection between Scott and Brett is strong enough in the friendship and we actually really do trust each other so much that the emotions come through Kyle and Oliver so genuinely. I completely agree. So Robert, it's hard to do all that preparation beforehand and everything, especially since you can look in lines and be memorizing them and trying to do work on them and then go in and I'll get together with Brett and we'll be running them and it's like, oh, wait a minute. No, no, no, okay, this is this scene, it's only totally different. It's not a quiet scene, it's a loud scene, or it's not a yelling scene, it's a quiet scene, or you don't really know until you get with someone, especially with me and Brett, like we get together and we'll run lines before we go up and actually put it on tape and we discover new things and find new things so keeping it organic is way more important than going in there with so much preparation that you have your set ways and then you can't react to what they're going to do. So I think with us, it just, it comes, you know, on the day and it hopefully works out most of the time. Hopefully. Like all these little nuances that happen when you guys are in the, even these scenes together that you look for kind of thing, right? This sort of like little nuances that you guys have between each other. It's just, honestly, it's so much more fun when it's just as unexpected to us as it is to the audience, you know, what happens in a scene. When we're surprised in a scene by either each other, by ourselves, when it takes out a life of its own within a scene, that's why we do what we do. That's the beautiful part of being an actor is when you have all the words on the page, you have all the stage directions, you have all the blocking, you have 50 to 100 people on the other side of the canvas when you, and everything's kind of laid out. But in the middle of the scene, when something unexpected happens, that's the beautiful, that's the beautiful moment as a performer. And I think Scott and I have that happen a lot because we both work the same way and that keeps us both really engaged in every moment that we have on the screen. It's great. We've gone to that point where we are so comfortable with each other that we're not afraid to just do something in a scene because, you know, we're not going to worry about what it's going to do to the other person because we can react to each other so well at this point, we've worked together so much. Yeah, absolutely. And honestly, even in the beginning, it was kind of like that. I mean, that first day, that first kiss, that whole first day that we worked together, we were kind of winging it with each other and it went really, really well because we both were just there and present. And we knew from that first little moment that this, you know, okay, cool, like I'm ready for this, this ride, it's going to be a fun ride because we could just tell in the beginning. Very cool, very cool. You've pretty much answered my next question. So now, I don't have to ask it. Moving on. And this one also came from diversity in daytime. We touched on it a little bit but they did want to know, will they get back to showing Christian Leila Fish and Kylo Quad and they were so much fun. They wanted to know that. Maybe we touched on it but you know, we're going to have scenes between those guys again, Christian Leila. We haven't filmed anything recently but we're definitely hoping to because we're all friends off the set. David from Arizona might hang out a little while, hang out a little bit later tonight. And Tika and I are really good friends and obviously Scott mentioned that Ian and David are really good friends. So we love the pairing of the their couple and our couple together. We haven't gotten to explore that enough by any means. So we haven't filmed much, sorry, my purpose is going. We haven't filmed much lately but where it's like, come on, dude, you should know I'm on an interview. We haven't filmed much lately but we're really, we're really, really hoping we could. He's gonna tell you to shut up. Yeah. I love you, Keith Scott. Oh, that's too funny. I can't move on to the next point. What's the next point? Next point. I wanted to, since I got you both here, this is going to be really interesting. I would have loved for you guys to do promo for this show. Say anything along the realms of, this is Brett Claywell and Scott Evans and you're listening to Buzzworthy Radio. You can do them together. You can do them separate. I don't care. Have fun with it. Roll with it, do whatever it is that, you know, go for it, Brett, take it away. Use that raspy voice. What are we doing this together? It's separate. How about Brett starts it off and then and Scott joins in somewhere. All right, go for it. Okay. All right, this is Brett Claywell. And he had Evan playing Oliver Fish and you are listening. Like the phone delay. Do we do, do we get, oh, that was the phone delay. Okay, take two. We get two takes this time. Yeah. All right, this is Brett Claywell. Please call with me if I went back to it. And Scott Evans playing Oliver Fish on One Let's Live and you are listening to Buzzworthy Radio. There's Brady Radio. Oh, I like it a lot. Did you, did you got that phone? Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. I'm glad you have, I had fun. I had a blast. Thanks so much, you guys, for coming out here and Scott, last minute. Thanks for tuning out here. It was great having you here. I seriously didn't, I think you were going to get here, but I'm glad you did. It was a lot of fun, man. I had a problem. You guys stopping over here. That's all I'm going to have to Twitter. I'm going to go check it right now. Follow them on Twitter everybody at real Scott Evans. Brett Claywell is on there, even though he really doesn't use the Twitter. So find his fan page on Facebook. It's basically Brett Claywell. Nothing difficult. It's all simple. So follow those two guys. They're great. We love them the best. Thanks again, you guys. Call that kid publicist now, so he knows that you're not dead or something. I appreciate it. Thank you so much, guys. Thank you a lot. We'll take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. Love it. Love it, you guys. Thanks so much, guys. We're tuning into this. We're going to be back on again, hopefully soon, and we'll keep you posted on everything that's coming on. And absolutely, like they said in the room, one like Liz is on right now. So you've got to watch one like Liz, everybody, ABC weekdays on ABC weeknights on soapnet. Turn it on right now. Turn it on to TV. For now, I'm heading out. This is Nabelle Bailey from Buzzworthy, making sure you get to make sure you guys get the latest Buzz. I messed up on my own tagline. That's bad. Make sure you guys get the latest Buzz with Buzzworthy Radio. See you guys next time. 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