![]() “You know, I’ve been up, I’ve been down, I’ve been the cock of the walk, I’ve been nobody, but it was a really amazing life,” he says. Recording the podcast put Knight in a reflective state of mind. Steve was there for some of that and he and I were comparing notes and it was really, really fun.” Back in the day, when you do a big role on a soap and you go to the right city, it’s like being Elvis for the day. One of the ironies of life is that you don’t really realize how lucky you are until everything’s changed. It was just me and Steve sort of dragging Bradford down memory lane. Nobody remembers.’ ”īurton talked him into it, and Knight had a blast. He is just one of the coolest people you’ll ever meet.” Still, when Burton invited him to be a guest on That’s Awesome!, the podcast he co-hosts with Bradford Anderson (Spinelli), Knight balked. He really went out of his way to make me feel at home. “But when I crossed over and did that few months on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, I’ve never had someone extend themselves like that. “I’ve known Steve for 20 years we go back,” Knight begins. It was while on Y&R that he strengthened yet another bond, with Steve Burton (Jason ex-Dylan, Y&R). You think Rebecca’s good on the show, you should see her do character work. “Rebecca and I, aside from being colleagues and friends, are members of an acting laboratory here in Los Angeles. Chuckles Knight, “Maurice and I had a long talk and I said, ‘Be careful, because I know’ - and I should have put money down on this - ‘the minute you do this, they are just gonna eat you up.’ And they did!” Then there’s Rebecca Budig (Hayden), another former AMC co-star (ex-Greenlee). ![]() They worked together on AMC, where Stuart played Tad’s brother-in-law, Will Knight is the godfather of one of his sons and says, “If I ever have a dark night of the soul, he’s one of the people I turn to.” He goes back 30-plus years with Maurice Benard (Sonny), who used to play AMC’s Nico, and can remember counseling him on whether or not to accept GH’s job offer back in 1993 since, at the time, Benard was reluctant to get sucked back into soaps. James Patrick Stuart (Valentin) is “one of my oldest and dearest,” as he puts it. Knight has deep ties to the show, professional ones that have become personal. Simon Neville, Knight has been absent from the TV screen on which he was such a fixture in his decades as Tad - that is, until last week, when he began what is slated to be a short-term run on GH as Martin Gray, the new lawyer of Nelle and Franco. Outside of a 2015 episode of NCIS, and a few months of work on Y&R from 2015-16, playing the not-entirely-aboveboard Dr.
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