‘Days of Our Lives’ Spoilers: Stacy Haiduk (Kristen DiMera/Susan Banks) On Why She Loves Being Susan 

‘Days of Our Lives’ (DOOL) spoilers find that viewers are no strangers to seeing their favorite, or most reviled characters come back from the dead, or to seeing a doppleganger turn up in Salem here and there.

One such character to have a doppleganger is the evil Kristen DiMera. Her lookalike, Susan Banks is the mother of Elvis ‘EJ’ DiMera (James Scott) and has popped in and out of Salem since the 90s.

Right now she is “popping in” which means portrayer Stacy is doing double duty as Kristen and Susan (and then to really get confusing, Kristen is pretending to be Susan and Susan is playacting as Kristen).

‘Days of Our Lives’ Spoilers: Stacy Haiduk (Kristen DiMera/Susan Banks) On Why She Loves Being Susan 

But Stacy doesn’t mind the double work. In fact, she’s loving it! Stacy tells Soap Opera Digest, “It is a treat because I can let my Susan just go. And when they let me go, it’s just so much fun!”

Of course, Susan is the zaniest character we’ve seen on DOOL for a long while…which speaks volumes. After all, this is Salem we are talking about. Stacy calls her other alter ego “A hoot. That’s the perfect word for her.”

She also explains that what we see on screen is usually tempered down and that “During rehearsals, I just kinda do things that are crazy-crazy, more than what I do in the take.” But how do her co-stars not break character by laughing? “It’s hard,” Stacy admits.

“Once everything is committed, I just go for it and we’ll just crack up at the end. Even if Susan laughs, I can find a way to make that work in the scenes. It’s just fun.”

Another coup to playing Susan is that Stacy gets to act alongside different co-stars than who she plays opposite as Kristen.

Though she says she loves working with Eric Martsolf (Kristen’s beau, Brady Black), she also loves the new opportunity she had to share scenes with Robert Scott Wilson (Ben Weston) who consulted Susan and her sixth sense while on his quest to find thought-to-be-dead bride, Ciara Brady (Victoria Konefal).

“He [Robert]is a joy, an absolute joy to work with,” Stacy gushes. “He’s committed to his work and he goes for it, which means when you’re in the scene, you can just do your part and he’s right there. He doesn’t laugh, he keeps a straight face until the end and then goes, ‘Oh, my God!’”

I guess that’s why the actors get paid the big bucks. We know we would never be able to keep a straight face around “hoot”, Susan Banks!

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