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Topic Started: Wednesday Jun 10 2009, 08:10 AM (533 Views)
ROSELM
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This storyline has brought us so many mixed feelings. We were all so excited to take on the challenge of a story so difficult and painful, and definitely intimidated at the same time. I was so moved reading the scripts. I thought the whole thing was put together so beautifully. Every scene bled into the next, and though it took several days to get through it, it still seemed to move so fast to me.
I loved getting the opportunity to do such emotional scenes with Galen. He is always so fun to work with - but these scenes were different. No one was cracking jokes, we were all so serious all day. One day our director choked up - when he was explaining the scene where Grace's heart monitor starts skips and flatlines. usually, no matter how dramatic or emotional the scenes, we can goof around in the early morning rehearsals and often people try to ease the tension of tough scenes by being light between scenes. Not these. everyone seemed affected by what we were shooting.
Several people on the message boards commented on the scene with Roman. I was struck by that right away. My dad has always been someone I can turn to for any situation, he is such a great dad - always there to try and help me make things better. I'm so lucky to have him. So, in a moment of such utter grief, I totally related to Sami just wanting so desperately for her daddy to be able to make this better. And just falling apart in his arms. it seemed so real for me.
Also, I am definitely an optimist. I always think things are going to work out. Everything is going to be okay. So, those scenes in the chapel, where Sami was saying to Rafe that she felt better - that everything was going to be okay... it made me really see the other side of that. what if it's NOT okay? As Sami said, all the crazy stunts she's pulled just to make sure she gets what she wants... it all seems so trivial int he face of her daughter's health, and knowing there is absolutely nothing she can do to help her.
I can't begin to describe how uniquely affected we all were by this whole storyline. Galen said he was standing off stage during one of the scenes, and he saw our co-ep, Gary Tomlin hand a big crew guy, Brian a tissue. He was literally crying in the darkness backstage.


http://blog.nbc.com/alison/days_of_our_lives/baby_grace_storyline.php#comments
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The scenes were very moving and powerful. Kudos to you, Ali.

I still really resent, as a viewer the lies of Ken Corday (No more dead babies), and the totally unnecessary death of Grace. If their intent was to kill her off, why rewrite other storylines and ruin characters just to have her born?
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Thanks for posting.

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Alison Sweeney in facebook

"i was so exhausted after filming these scenes. I was shooting the BL Finale at the same time, so it was a pretty intense, busy time for me, and i didn't get to see all the other scenes. I came home tonight from BL at 10:15pm, & had to watch today's ep. it was so amazing to see the whole show. Ari was fantastic. Taylor (mia) and Dylan (will) were wonderful. & Galen truly blew me away. Broke my heart."


it seem The scenes outside the ICU room were taped different day when Ali wasn´t available and that´s why we never saw her come out
Edited by ROSELM, Wednesday Jun 10 2009, 05:14 PM.
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Bryan blows people away
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Wednesday Jun 10 2009, 05:13 PM

Alison Sweeney in facebook

"i was so exhausted after filming these scenes. I was shooting the BL Finale at the same time, so it was a pretty intense, busy time for me, and i didn't get to see all the other scenes. I came home tonight from BL at 10:15pm, & had to watch today's ep. it was so amazing to see the whole show. Ari was fantastic. Taylor (mia) and Dylan (will) were wonderful. & Galen truly blew me away. Broke my heart."


it seem The scenes outside the ICU room were taped different day when Ali wasn´t available and that´s why we never saw her come out
That would explain why Lucas and Sami don't interact I guess.
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Ali did some really nice work. I especially liked the scenes where Sami dreams of Grace, where she tells EJ he was Grace's father, and where Sami writes Grace's eulogy/obit.

I also thought the other "moms" did really well. Nicole saying that she knew when she first saw Grace that she was an angel and that now Grace is in heaven was fantastic, as was Mia crying because Grace has a biological mother who doesn't know she died.

I wasn't really blown away by any of the dads, though. It was all about the moms.
Do you remember what she told him? She took her lover’s hand, and she said, “just because something is intangible doesn't mean that it's not real.” Lucas, no matter what happens, no matter what we’ve been through, no matter what I say, you will always be in my heart. -- Sami Brady, November 2007
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Oh, and I forgot to mention what a nice touch it was for Sami to sing the same lullaby to Grace that Marlena sang to Sami on death row.

(Shame Days had to fire Dee Hall, who would have made the whole thing even better, though.)
Do you remember what she told him? She took her lover’s hand, and she said, “just because something is intangible doesn't mean that it's not real.” Lucas, no matter what happens, no matter what we’ve been through, no matter what I say, you will always be in my heart. -- Sami Brady, November 2007
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