“That man had such a presence, both physically and energetically, in that studio that you could almost literally feel the vacuum, the void that was left when he was no longer there. I didn’t like it.”
Lowder forged a tight bond with Aniston when he played Brady in the early aughts. “He and I were very, very close during my first years there, from 2000 to 2005, when he played my grandfather,” the actor relays. “We had a lot of scenes together. He taught me so much about the craft of acting, about how to navigate the soap opera schedule, the rigors of it. I would call him a mentor along with Drake Hogestyn [John]. So, to do episodes about Victor’s death was really hard. I’m not gonna lie. When I first found he had passed last November, I obviously shed my tears, and then I thought I was stable until I showed up and I saw the funeral set and then I lost it again. I miss the man, so doing those scenes was not easy. I actually lucked out because Rex was one of the characters that did not have to go up and say words about Victor because I don’t know how I would have been able to get through that.”
This story is from the September 11, 2023 edition of Soap Opera Digest.
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