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Actress Louise Sorel
"Days of Our Lives"

June 02, 1998

For eight years, Louise Sorel tormented the good people of Salem, USA, in her role as Vivian Alamain. Find out what it was like for her to play someone so twisted yet charming, and why burying someone alive was actually her favorite moment on the show.

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Speaker: Talk City Presents(tm), in association with BOXTOP Live(tm), welcomes you to a conversation with our special guest Louise Sorel.

Speaker1: Welcome to Talk City, Louise! It's great having you with us tonight! You've worked on stage, film and TV. What's unique about daytime?

Louise Sorel: It's a much faster process. You turn out 80 pages in one day, whereas if it were a film that would be a two month period - if not longer! It's instant everything. It's mind boggling.

Shooters: How did you actually get started with Days?

Louise Sorel: I met the producer and they hired me! We discussed the character a little bit. I went away, and they tested some other people, who didn't work out. So they hired me! That was seven years ago - I can't believe it!

Minerva: I love the show I tape it every day and watch it every night when I get home! I also saw you on One Life to Live. You must really like doing soaps! Can you tell me, in your own opinion, what is the appeal of soap operas to their audiences?

Louise Sorel: I think it's that the characters, because you have them in your home intimately on a daily basis, become very familiar and comfortable. You see them consistently, and you get to know them. Unlike a film where you see the characters just once, or a series where you see them once a week. It's intimate, and comfortable. You get to know the characters and their lives.

Marblehead: are you anything like Vivian in real life?

Louise Sorel: Only in terms of self-deprecating humor. Not much else, really. Maybe a certain style. Certainly not her vengeful nature! I've brought my humor and style to her.

Bobbie George: Louise, where did you get the inspiration for your character?

Louise Sorel: I didn't write the character! You mustn't give me credit for the character - she was created by a writer who's no longer on the show. They were thinking a bit of Les Liaisons Dangereuse, that seductive nature. I think she's taken some turns in the last year that were misadventures, but she's more on track again.

Shell: When will you wake up and fall for Ivan? He is crazy about you

Louise Sorel: Hopefully never! I think that would be mistake. He's my butler - he's not my peer (pardon the pun!). I don't think that the fans would really find themselves happy with that anyway, where do you go?

Trish: Dear Vivian, are you going to find out what is in the basement?

Louise Sorel: Hopefully someday - as long as it's not rats! That's my deepest fear of going into my own basement! The mystery in the basement has been going on for four or five months!

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