Remembering SUNSET BEACH

On the 25th anniversary of the debut of the NBC sudser SUNSET BEACH, which ran from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999, Digest caught up with three o f its main players.

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Where were you in your life when SUNSET BEACH entered your orbit?

“I came over [to the United States from England] with my girlfriend in August of 1996 and it was sometime toward the back end of that month that I auditioned for SUNSET BEACH. I was working in London as a stage actor who did a little bit of television — very little, to be honest — and my girlfriend had some contacts over here because she was an Australian actress. So we came over quite speculatively in August. I think I was 30 years old at the time and I had just finished this little series called LONDON BRIDGE. We came on a whim for a month and I met this manager. He literally looked at me and said, ‘What’s your status here?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m just here on holiday, but I’m going to meet with an immigration attorney.’ So that was going on in the background while I went to Mexico to go deep-sea fishing, which is really what I wanted to do [