Golden Age

DAYS’s James Reynolds is enjoying life as a Daytime Emmy winner

- Stephanie Sloane

“It has been pretty remarkable!” marvels James Reynolds of his life since winning the Daytime Emmy for Lead Actor on April 29. “Not a day goes by where someone doesn’t call. It’s one of those moments in life that meets expectations and keeps on giving.”

Hearing his name that night, Reynolds says, was “Otherworldly! It really was interesting. I remember I had spoken to Eric Martsolf [Brady] and he was saying he doesn’t remember anything from when his name was called [as Supporting Actor in 2015]; he doesn’t remember his speech. I now understand that because when the envelope was opened and they said, ‘The winner is...’ I heard my first name — that’s all I heard. There was a moment where I was just kind of floating in space. I had no thoughts, and I’m a person who is in my head a lot, and I had nothing at that moment.”

The actor was aware, however, of the excited reaction from the crowd when he took the stage. “That was pretty astounding. I was actually overwhelmed by that, to be truthful, and very touched by that, because I knew the support I was getting from all my fellow DAYS people; everybody on the show has been nothing but supportive for months. But to get the reaction from the entire audience that I got, that’s a bit of surprise. I’m kind of a quiet actor so I don’t see a lot of people, so to have that kind of support from the daytime community was pretty extraordinary.”