As interviewer Michael Fairman made clear, Eric Braden (Victor Newman, The Young and the Restless) didn’t want for juicy, award-worthy material. The reel that netted him a nomination in the Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actor category featured emotion-wringing scenes between him and onscreen offspring Adam (Mark Grossman) and beloved spouse Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott)
Eric Braeden On His Daytime Emmy Nod
On his fellow nominees: “Thorsten Kaye [Ridge Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful] is a very good actor. I’ve known John McCook [Eric Forrester, B&B] for 150 years, I think 140 years, maybe. And the other gentlemen, I don’t know, but I’m sure they’re all worthy of receiving the same award.”
On his most embarrassing Daytime Emmy moment: “Aretha Franklin was a big fan of the show and of mine. She had asked me if I would present with her at Radio City Music Hall in New York. These producers when you accept an award, be it the Oscars or whatever it is, they will sit in the booth, and they say, ‘Move on, move on, move on.’ They want you to get on and off stage very quickly. That should not be allowed….
So, there’s a ticker thing in front of me, and you look at it and kept on saying, ‘Eric Braeden move on.’ I’d hardly been there with Aretha Franklin and I wanted to thank Bill Bell [co-creator and former head writer, Y&R]. We owe everything to him. We owe everything to that man’s foundation and his genius. So, I stood there with Aretha and I saw again ‘Eric Braeden.’ So I said, ‘And I would like to thank Eric Braeden.’ The moment I said it, I wanted to sink into the ground. Fortunately, it was a long time ago, but I had to bring it up again because I’ll never forget it.”
The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony will be telecast on Friday, June 7 at 8 PM EDT/Delayed PT on CBS (with a concurrent live stream and the ability to watch on-demand on Paramount+).
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