While fans of Days of our Lives may be bemoaning Brady’s latest battle with Mr. Booze, his portrayer, Eric Martsolf, couldn’t be more thrilled with the tale.

Eric Martsolf

He recently confided to Soap Opera Digest: “I’m always chomping at the bit for Brady to have that kind of downfall. Only in our crazy soap world can I feel comfortable saying that, because we as actors love to play the problematic natures of our characters instead of the happy moments. At least I do.

“When he falls off the wagon, I know that there’s lots of adventures that are going to follow and lots of mistakes that are going to be made. And in true Brady fashion, he’s just going right down that path that I love so much.”

As for whether or not he finds his alter-ego more interesting when he’s off the wagon, an introspective Martsolf mused: “Maybe interesting is not the right word. I don’t know how to answer that. I mean, for an actor, it’s more fun to play the troubled, tumultuous time in your character’s life. I love when Brady is trying to get himself out of a hole. He certainly gets himself into enough of them, and it’s interesting to watch someone try to climb out and regain their humanity, so to speak, and their stability in the world.

“Brady needs to be shaken up once in a while. The fact that he just can’t hold down a loving relationship to save his soul is completely interesting to me too. How many times can you fall down and dust yourself off and keep trying again? But I guess that’s what we do here.”

And when it comes to the hardest part of playing drunk, Martsolf had a “simple answer” – just don’t go over the top with it. “Soap opera has been plagued for generations to be a forum where we need to go over the top to display emotion and to tell a story. I think the tide is changing in a sense with 4K [higher-definition video resolution]. The subtlety is simply captured better….Back in the day when it was grainier, you almost had to play harder to show people what you were feeling.

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