Despite the hell that the pair have gone through as of late — she’s paralyzed from the waist down and recently had to tell a big ole lie to keep him from committing cold-blooded murder — look for Xander (Paul Telfer, Days of our Lives) and Sarah (Linsey Godfrey) to stick it out for the long haul!
Paul Telfer Talks Xarah 2.0
Confided Telfer to Soap Opera Digest: “I will say they stay pretty solid through this. The fact that Sarah finds a way to thwart Xander, but also wants to stay with him… This isn’t a deal-breaker.
“This isn’t like, ‘By the way, I stopped you from going to prison and I saved Brady’s life, but we’re getting a divorce because you’re a psycho.’ Sarah’s like, ‘No. I understand why he’s being the way he is, I love him the way he is, and I need him the way he is, but I can’t let him do this.’ ”
Which is a big change in the ‘Xarah’ dynamic — a fact that Telfer readily acknowledges and thoroughly appreciates. “I love working with Linsey. I also really love the Xander/Sarah relationship as it stands now. This latest iteration of it, after the whole big lie of Sarah hiding Xander’s paternity of Victoria for all that time, allowed them to restart from a place of honesty for the first time.
“Since they’d gotten together, there had always been some lie or some crack in the foundation. That’s not the case this time. They’ve both grown a bit, and their love is a bit more realistic now. You can really see the things they’ve been through and what they get from being with each other. It’s not just that Xander idolizes Sarah and aspires to be the kind of person that she would love. It’s more that he’s become more of his own man and she still loves him, and that’s a huge reward. Xander doesn’t have to strive to be somebody else. He can be who he is, and Sarah will still love him.
“If we were just doing the same beats over and over again, I think it would drive both Linsey and me crazy. I like the way they’ve shifted it over the years, and we joke about it all the time.”
Not too shabby for a romance that wasn’t even really on the writers’ radar at the time the two were first thrown together. Recalls Telfer: “I wasn’t even on contract back then. I was just a recurring villain. So I’m just very lucky that they saw something there and decided to see if it could work.”
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