‘Days of Our Lives’ (DOOL) spoilers say that yes, there will still be love scenes in Salem, despite all of the new CDC and social distancing guidelines in place to make sure that the cast and crew remain safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s what you need to know.
In a new interview with Soap Opera Digest, head writer Ron Carlivati says that while ‘Days of Our Lives’ won’t be using blow up dolls like their counterparts at ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ are using in order to make sure everyone stays six feet apart, they are making some significant changes to the way they operate.
‘Days of Our Lives’ Spoilers: Ron Carlivati Is Dealing With All The Changes The Best He Can
Ron explained to the publication, “If a scene ended where Chad kisses Abigail that wasn’t so essential to the plot, just a nice little kiss between husband and wife, we can cut it, but there’s other scenes where someone is kissing for the first time or a couple is making love for the first time, or it’s something significant and it’s harder to say, “Well let’s just cut that,” and that’s something production is working on right now.” Ron also made it no secret that yes, there is a bit of a staff turnover at the highly-rated NBC soap right now.
The head writer explained, “For the audience, they found out about a lot of these people all at the same time. Some of them left at different times for different reasons. Some of that got conflated into, “Oh, my God, everybody’s leaving. What’s going on at DAYS OF OUR LIVES?” But the reality is that when we stopped production last November, we didn’t have the pickup and we didn’t know when our show would come back. It was only fair to the cast to let them have their freedom, and we could not keep everyone on staff when there wasn’t a show being produced and we didn’t know that a new show would be produced. So during that time when we finally did get our pickup, some of our actors decided that they wanted to pursue something else, so we did lose some people that way and we also elected to cut a couple of people because of budget. So I knew some of those cast losses would be coming eventually and it would upset the audience but there wasn’t much I could do about that. It seems like a mass exodus but I’m still writing for 30 people, so from my POV, we’ve also added a bunch of people and some people who were reported leaving are actually already back, so our cast is full. I’m writing as many people as I ever did.”
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