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BuzzWorthy Radio: Adam Mayfield!

Adam Mayfield, who plays the role of Scott Chandler on ABC's All My Children, will be making an appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio.

Scott Chandler, the son of Ellen Wheeler's late Cindy Parker. Cindy married Stuart Chandler during the groundbreaking AIDS storyline in the late 80s and Stuart adopted Scott.

Daniel Cosgrove (who now works for Wheeler on GL) and Forbes March played the role after the character was aged.

Mayfield has done episodic work on BOSTON PUBLIC, GIRLFRIENDS and JUST SHOOT ME. He has also done some indie film work.

Duration:: 33m
Broadcast on:: 13 Jul 2009
Audio Format:: other

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Here on blogtalkradio.com, we're going to be joined by Adam Mayfield, who plays the role of Scott Chandler on 80 Z-Day Times, all my children. I believe he's with us right now, sir. How are you? So I'm not bad. How are you? I'm doing good, man. What's up? I just got back from the gym, figured I'd give you guys a call. Isn't that how it worked here on this show? They go to the gym, they're eating food, and it's like, "Oh, let's call it to this show right now." I'm going to call it to this show since I just got done from the gym. That's like their natural reaction, I love it. I wasn't expecting this, it's so casual. I, you know, I take the phone call. The next thing I know, we're live on the radio, apparently. All right. Then let me change that, then, since you were so, so not for this casual appearance here. Let me change it up here. So, Adam, how are you today? Welcome. No, no, no, no, no, no. You kidding me? This is great. That's the way it should be. You know, you dial some digits, and the next thing you know, you're doing it. It's great. I'm not stiff. I'm going to tell you that right now. That's like, that's the first thing I'm going to let you know about me. I'm not stiff, I'm not going to be. So, yeah. Don't expect me to be like that. That's good. So, you're playing this role, Scott Chandler, on the show, and all my children. It's one of the, I'll say pivotal, all of because of the person who played your mom. The storyline that was going on back in the '80s, when I was in the earlier place, Cindy Parker on the show, and many of you who don't know about that. Back in 1988, Stuart, played by David Canary, a wonderful guy, loved him, was married to Cindy Parker, Cindy had eight, and when Cindy died, Stuart adopted Scott. And it was a very wonderful storyline that was done in the '80s. I think it's before its time, and I think that's great that you're coming and playing this role of this character, that kind of caliber. How does that feel to you? Oh, it's been sensational. Particularly working with David Canary, Jacob Young, Jennifer Bassie. They've just all been fantastic. It feels like home, working with him, particularly David and Jacob because we do have so much, so many things together, and the relationships were pretty much cultivated right off the camera, so it just made it that much more comfortable to play stuff with them on camera. Yeah, absolutely. And I have a -- I have someone -- I want you to meet. This is my co-host, so that I'm bringing on the line. I don't want you to think, "Oh, my God. What the hell?" No, I'm over that face. Okay, good. All right. Matthew, what's going on? Good morning, everybody. How are you? Good. How are you doing, Matthew? You're doing pretty good. I just woke up, so you know what? I'm getting used to the morning thing. Right on. So, you know, it goes. And plus Monday, so hopefully nobody gets the case of the Mondays. I know I don't. Monday, Monday's -- I'm not feeling Monday. I'm off today, so I really -- you know, it doesn't bother me. This isn't work for you, huh? I don't consider it work. No. If Adam and I have fun doing, that's not work for me. That's not work. If I love doing it, that's not work. So, Adam and Matthew, what are you -- When you first came on the show, when you first came on the show -- when I first came on the show, I did not expect you to immediately just -- because they kill up the character's steward. Right. And I did not expect to see your character -- and this is just me personally from watching "So For A Long Time." You don't expect to see a lot of the male characters show emotions, so to see. Yeah. And you did that, and you pulled it off so well. I was like -- I was stealing Scott's -- you know, the boss of his father and all that stuff. How hard was that to play? How easy was that to play? A little background of this. Oh, God. Well, for starters, thank you. I appreciate that. You know, it's my job, I guess, is the answer. It was a challenging -- yeah, it was very challenging. You know, I didn't have any experience in daytime prior to this. You know, luckily, I had done enough to hopefully hold my own, which I like to think has been the case up until this point. But, yeah, no, you know, there were certain days, there were certain scenes that were more challenging than others simply because, you know, there was more -- there was more association with just specifics in the material. And, you know, when it was there with little to no effort on my part, if that makes any sense, it was there. And when it wasn't, it was a little more challenging. But, you know, you just use the tools that you have to make it happen, and you go from there. Exactly. And, actually, I have to name -- I did IMDBU. So, it's a little bit of research. And, speaking of, you know, your first adventure in a daytime, you've done a lot of private time rules. What is -- what do you think the difference between primetime to daytime is? Oh, my God, the difference is between primetime and daytime. Primetime -- excuse me when I take a sip of my recovery shake. Primetime, for those of you just tuning in, I just got back from the gym. Let's see here. Well, you certainly have more time for the material. You know, primetime, you're working on either half an hour to an hour of material. And, you know, you've got the whole week to rehearse and to prepare. There's locations, there's a hell of a lot more preparation time. And, with this -- and it's one of the things I love about daytime, actually. I mean, it's -- you just -- you go. You get one take, and if it's good for camera, then it's good. And that's it, and you're moving on. You know, you become your own director. You have to, because there's, you know, there's no time for anything. If not to say that the directors aren't doing their job, and I work with phenomenal directors, and whenever I have a question, you know, they've been over backwards to help me with it. But other than that, it's just -- it's very fast-paced. And I really enjoy that. They have a -- you know, the -- and I don't think every soap opera does this, but all my children has a -- a resident acting coach, who's there onset by request up to, you know, four to six hours a day. So, if you want to run lines, if you want to hammer out material, you know, she's there. I utilize her immensely, and, you know, she's -- she's a goldmine. Her name is Cheryl King, and she's fantastic. So, there's little things like that that kind of take the pressure off. But, again, I love the pace. I really, really do. You know, it just reminds me back when I was doing theater, and granted, you know, you don't have the rehearsal time of theater, but the thing that is similar for me, at least, is, you know, when that camera rolls, it's on. The game's on. Yeah, it is on. And in a sense, it does feel like -- yeah, in a sense, it does feel like live theater, because, you know, you've got to move on to the next item quickly. So, you want to be on your game right then and there, as opposed to film or, you know, episodic television, where, you know, you're probably going to get five or six takes out of this. Not the case. So, there's an energy there. It's a rush that's going to keep building up and building up everything, you know, building up -- yeah, it's a great -- yeah, it's a fantastic rush. Wow. You're actually on one of the shows that has the number one most known soap opera character, Eric Kane, Susan Lucci. What did you like to work with this, Lucci, yourself? Oh, my God. Susan Lucci is so fabulous. She is. She is. She's like the classiest person I've ever met. I just -- I just love her. Oh, my God. Yeah. She's a wonderful, absolutely wonderful. Did you act like this when you found out you were going to work with her? No, I didn't -- I didn't know anything about her, really. I, you know, wasn't all too, you know, familiar with the person or work, anything like that. And it's just been one pleasant surprise after another with everybody there. And it's great to say that and really mean it. You know, because, you know, you don't want to talk trash about anybody you work with, especially on national radio. But you -- we've had it doesn't work. So, you know, the bonus is that I can say all these things, and I'm actually telling the truth. That's right. Yeah. Right. That's just so funny. And now that you said that, that brings up my next question. So, you've never watched this so before until you got on all my children? Oh, I have watched this so before. Just so happy. No, I did. I did. Oh, my God. I promised myself I would never admit this in mixed company. It doesn't get any more mixed than this. I got addicted to all my children when I was in junior high. And it was a closeted addiction. I wouldn't dare tell any of my friends, but I had to be home at noon every day in the summertime. I would ride my bike to my house so I could catch up on what bow and patch and the rest of the gang were up to. It lasted, you know? It was just kind of an experimental thing. And it only lasted for about four months, and, you know, I was over it. I did have that time where I was. And it's so easy to do. I mean, it really is. You get sucked in. It was funny. I was talking to Jennifer Bassie last night. And she was saying, okay, you know, if you want to watch my material, that's great. Just, you know, continue to watch. I support that you watch the show. You will get addicted to these shows. And our friends go, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not. I just want to watch you. It's like, okay, you do what you want. But I encourage you to continue to watch. And trust me, you will get addicted to these shows if you watch them on a regular basis. Nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm not worried about that. And apparently a week would go by if she could call from her friends and they would just say, "Uh, you were great. By the way, does that baby die?" (laughter) Please, please. No, it's true. It's true. Guys, I will make... We talked to like tons of guys who love soap operas. And I have a funny story. Oh, yeah! You know, when I was in high school and I played ice hockey, and one time in the locker room, I don't know how it was brought up. But everyone's like, "Oh, did you watch General Hospital?" "No, you heard all my children watch her." "Oh, wait. You know, the right-wingers want to live." And it's great. Yeah, it's so... It's completely acceptable for women and gay men to come out with Washington. But there's still this stigma with straight guys. But, you know, they should have support groups for this. They do. (laughter) There's a lot of... You know, I would imagine that there's a large population of straight males, you know, myself included, who dig soaps. It's so bad that I'm actually now addicted to Spanish soap operas. So that's how bad it is. (laughter) I don't even know what they're saying. My stepfather is addicted to... They're called novellas, correct? Yes, tell novellas. And I don't know a word of what is going on, but I know the plot. I know what's going on. I kind of know what's going on. What my stepfather has done... He was born and raised in Texas. He is a ship captain in the Gulf of Mexico. So he has a lot of time on his hands during certain... Yes, you know, down periods of when he's at the dock and then when he's off at home with my mom, and he watches telenovelas. Now, what he's figured out on the television is how to put in English subtitles for the hearing impaired on the TV. That doesn't work for me. He is now learning Spanish. This is how he learns Spanish. And my mom will come home and he'll be sitting there, you know, with a bag of chips. She'll sit down next to him and he'll say something like, "Hey, did you see that baby?" Right there? Yeah. She just said she's wearing a red dress. And he's so proud of himself. That is funny. Wow. That is too funny. Oh, yeah. We all have our little addictions. We all have our vices, don't we? It's true. Yeah, we do. It's just so funny that we just got into that topic. I just know a lot of people in an NFL and NBA watch so. They've done interviews and they watch so. I'm like, "Nice." Oh, I love it! All they watch, though. But the main thing I hear, all the NFL and NBA watch is all my children because they want to see Susan Lucci. They love. They love Lucci. You've got to have the Lucci. You have to have the Lucci. You have to. And there's something else I have to have is I have to take this phone call. That I want to speak to you. Yeah. Great. Pulling in from a K-Hoss. And really? Yeah, man. And before I take them, I was told in the chat room that I had to correct you when you said bow and patch. Yeah, I was definitely going to say what, you know. That's what happened. Oh, no. Oh, no. That's what I said. I said days of our lives. I said I got addicted to days of our lives, didn't I? Oh, my gee. You got addicted to all my people. Did I really? I was thinking days of our lives. It's an honest mistake under the circumstances. No, no, no, no. Thank you for the correction. I was. I got addicted to days of our lives. And those are the two characters that are most prominent in my mind. Or bow and patch. I believe his name was Steve on the show. Is that correct? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Worth it. Nice. You're good. You're really good. I may have just. Well, thank you. I don't think you shied away the color at all though. I think they're still here. Great. Let's bring them along. All right. Nine, three, six. Hello. Hello, Dawn. Hey. It's Dawn. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. I just wanted to call in and say hi. Hi. We met at Talls and Pots. I don't know if you'll remember me. Of course I do. Absolutely. Do you? Yeah, I do. You were wearing glasses, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you recently sent me the nicest letter and I'm glad I get to thank you in person. Oh, you got it? I did. I did. I did get it. Thank you very much. That was very sweet. Very kind. Good. Well, I just wanted to say that I think you're an awesome actor. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. You're going to be back out here any time in the near future or any fan events or anything like that? Yeah. In September. Okay. What's coming up in September? I think you know more about these than I do. I'm going on the Ricky Paul Gordon's bus tour. That's right. That's right. Okay. Okay. And AMC luncheon. Nice. Excellent. Are you going to any of them? I hope so. I'm not sure how that works. I assume I would love to. I love fan events. Yeah. But. Why don't you show up? No, no. Just show up. Maybe I could just crash one. I don't think. Exactly. No. Are you going to the Ricky Paul fan event? I think well, isn't that just for Ricky Paul? Wouldn't that be tacky? How does that work? I don't know. Oh. I'm sure Betteller will be there and you know. What's that? I'm sure Bettellers will be there and somebody else and yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. I'm still new to this. My first rodeo at all. All right. All right. I'll get to as a college. Yeah. It was great. Talk to you and thanks again for the letter and I hope to see you in September. All right. You too. Bye now. Bye. Bye. Bye Dawn. I'll see. That's actually one of the parts of Daytona is the fans are so. I don't know. They are like, they're like no other. You saw like, for example, Don. I mean, they'll probably not. Oh, I remember Don implicitly. That's awesome. What is it like to have this like fan based on because you're on soap opera. Right. Yeah. No. You know what? I love these fan events because they remind me a whole. They really do. You know, the people who come there remind me of my aunt and my cousins and people like that. It's just very, very small to the earth. Nice. Yeah. Now, we got a we got a question from the chat and this is from Joanne and wants to know how do you feel about almost being paired up with Marissa and you get to start up with another J.R. Scott feud, but this time about a girl. How do I. How do I feel about it? Yeah. How do I feel about how do I feel about Jacob being, I'm sorry, J.R. being paired up with Marissa? Yeah. And you in your care and also your character almost being paired up with Marissa. Well, you know, nobody likes to take a back seat, especially when they're caught for another gal. You know, it's a lot of fun to play. Especially because, you know, Brittany and I have a lot of chemistry together. We really, really do. You know, we started around the same time, so we have that camaraderie. You know, Jacob really took me under his wing. He really made a point to befriend me because, you know, as he told me from the get go, you know, I'm probably going to be working a lot with this guy. I hope I like him. Let's try to make that happen as smoothly as possible. And he really just showed me the ropes. So, you know, we've got a lot of chemistry together, you know, just because of that and the relationship that we've cultivated, like I was saying before, off-camera. And Brittany and I have, we've done the same thing. So, you know, there's a lot of fun and there's a lot of ease in playing with those two. So, you know, I guess what I'm saying is I couldn't be working with two better people if I'm going to get involved in a love triangle. Nice. We also have, we also have another comment from the room, from Dye, that she met you at the pause event. And she said she saw you in the street rehearsing or something like that. It went away from the roof now. I remember her too. She actually called me out on that at the pause event. Because, yeah, I saw you walking down the street the other day, talking to yourself. And she asked me, it was funny because at the time, I think I was just trying to say face, she said, "Were you rehearsing?" And most likely, I probably wasn't. I could have very well just been talking to myself. But, you know, of course, at the time, my answer was yes. Yes, I was. I was rehearsing. I could have very, you know, because I do sometimes. I'll just think out loud and I'm totally alone and I'm walking down the street and I'm not aware of it. I just need to just start, you know, wearing a Bluetooth and whether it's on or not. It really doesn't make any difference. It really doesn't make any difference because I can talk to myself and nobody will think, you know, otherwise. My roommate in college had one of those and he would do that. And I would have no idea that he would be talking to somebody. And I would answer him. I'd be like, "Hey, what's up?" I'd be like, "I don't know. Let's go on with you." And he'd be like, "I'm not talking to you." Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. People look at you like you're crazy. Seriously. Yeah. Oh, yeah. When they first started getting popular, you know, it seemed to happen in supermarkets more than anywhere else. You know, there would be more than once. I don't know. I'd be the serial idol and this really attractive woman would be standing next to me and saying, "What looks good to you?" I think. Well, I don't know. It looks good to you. And then, of course, she'd look at me like I was crazy and then I'd do the little Bluetooth that she turned her head. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. It was a letdown. It took some getting used to. That's just so funny. I feel like now I'm not alone in that regard because I do the same thing. I don't feel weird anymore. No, you don't have to. Just now that I know that you do that of all people. I feel not alone now because I did that on the way to the post office and someone walked out the door and said, "Stop talking to yourself." Right. You kidding me? Just some stranger actually called you out on it. Yeah. Oh, that's great. I believe all actors do because if I have an audition or something, I'm totally going over lines out loud and somebody's like, "What?" I'm just like, "Oh, nothing. Totally." Or I'll do it in the car and somebody will look at me in traffic and I'll just pull up the phone and be like, "Oh, yeah, I'm talking on the phone." Oh, God. I do that all the time. I did it in LA because I was constantly going over my lines in the car. And every once in a while I'd see somebody looking at me and I would deliberately push buttons where, you know, my stick shift was to make it look like I had a car phone or something like that. Exactly. So you're not looking like you're driving. Yeah. Yeah. It was a lot easier to get away with in LA because I did have a car and I drove everywhere. And out here, I don't have that luxury so I'm forced to... Subway. Talk to myself in broad daylight out on the streets. But that's okay. True. Or on the subway where a bunch of people are on the subway. There are a bunch of people having conversations with themselves. True. True, yeah. I forget the more likely you're going to find people who are having conversations with themselves and they definitely don't have a Bluetooth. Yeah. This is true. This train. I've seen it done in the sea train. I'm just saying. Absolutely. It takes all kind. I'll know to do that when I go to New York now. It's just basically just walk down the street and just randomly just say something to myself. That'll be like my first thing to do back in New York. I'll do that. That'll be great. I just have someone to say. Oh, are you one of those guys that rehearse? Yes. I'll just make you an actor. I am. Thank you for talking. Definitely. I think I am too. Speaking of talking so much, one of the shows that you guys actually take near, I believe. I'm pretty sure you do. Do you ever run into the viewed ladies in the hallway? Because I hear you guys are like the hallways. They're like right next to all my people. Oh, yeah. No, Steve, it was right next door on the same floor. So, yeah. No, no. We run into them all the time. And, yeah, you could run into Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg. A lot of them. Have you ever gotten into a conversation with them? Just like, you know what? Here's a hot com for you. Let's look at them. No. I'm too nervous. I'm still too nervous to talk to them. Do you ever know that this might actually stay on the air? No. They might just say like whatever you said on the air because that's what they do that. They talk live and wow. It's, yeah, the view. I like to compare this show. This is like the male version of the view. Kind of because we're always trying to get in our words. Especially if we have like four people or five people. It's like a big party on the show, don't you? No, this is great. It's like a chat room. Pretty much. It is. Yeah. Not that I would know anything about that. That's too great. All right. I got a question for you. Faber. Faber, I want to ask. I love for you to do a promo for our show. Do you like? Okay. Yeah. Why not? Why not? Do you make sure? It's very simple. You can say something along the lines of this is Adam Mayfield from All My Children. You are listening to Buzzworthy Radio or put your own spell on it. Whatever you want. You know, what have you? I like conversion. I'm going to, you know what? I'm going to go with that. I think you did a fine job there and yeah. Let's do it. All right. We're ready for you. Oh, so I just say it. I guess you can all just say it. Yeah. You can record it anyway, right? Yeah. Hey, everybody. This is Adam Mayfield on All My Children and you're listening to Buzzworthy Radio. Nice. Yeah. Nice. Very good. I like it. Do we need anything like that? Yeah. Okay. Cool. Adam, hopefully did you have a good time on the show? Not a great time on the show. Yeah. Very nice. It was great talking to you. Thank you too. You're talking to y'all as well. You're talking to you, man. And the next time you'll come in here, I'll make sure we're. Straightly. Not. Not kidding. Of course. Don't you dare. We'll be asking questions. No. No way. No way. No way. No way. No, I had a blast. Thanks, guys. No problem. See you later. I'll have to ask you a sort of tradition. What am I going to ask you? We are going to be back on Thursday, same time, at 10 a.m. with Scott Clifton who plays Skylar-Joplin on one life to live. But most fans will remember him from saying, "I'm going to be back." Also, I want to give you a little bit of time, at 10 a.m. with Scott Clifton who plays Skylar-Joplin on one life to live. But most fans will remember him from saying the role of Dylan Quirmy on General Hospital from the same network. So we are going to be on with him. It's going to be fun. I'm looking forward to this because I'm a huge Scott Clifton fan as well. So it's going to be awesome. It's going to be tight. I can't wait. So we're going to see you guys again in the morning on Thursday. And also, I want to give you some little updates of what's going on in the soap world. King M&I, Nogif from General Hospital and General Hospital. My chips are going to be on star dish radio tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern, I believe. And also, Tom Beards from the Young and the Reckless, who plays the role of Philip Chancell III, is going to be on a Livy Wilder time tonight at 11 p.m. Eastern. And also, check the site for some updates of what's going on with Robin Strasser. Check her hotline. All the new stuff is going on over there. And that's pretty much it. So we'll see you guys on Thursday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern. Making sure you get the latest buzz with buzzworthy. We'll see you guys next time. Take care. See you later. Looking for excitement? Chumba Casino is here. Play anytime. Play anywhere. Play on the train. Play at the store. Play at home. Play when you're bored. Play today for your chance to win. And get daily bonuses when you log in. So, what are you waiting for? Don't delay. Chumba Casino is free to play. Experience social gameplay like never before. Go to Chumba Casino right now to play hundreds of games. Including online slots. Bingo, lingo, and more. Live the Chumba Life at ChumbaCasino.com. 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