REEL

SCOTT CLIFTON (Liam) looks back on some of his most memorable B&B storylines.

- Tom Stacy

WHO’S THE DADDY? 2010

Coming in to B&B, did Bradley Bell [executive producer/head writer] fill you in on your character’s lineage?

“I had auditioned without even knowing the name of the character I would be playing. I auditioned under an alias called Adam, which is ironic because later I would be playing an amnesiac who thought his name was Adam. It was a phony script, just made up for the audition, and it was with Jacqui Wood [Steffy]. Once I got the job, I came in on a day I wasn’t yet working but it was like my orientation, where they told me where everything was. They escorted me into Brad’s office and once the door was closed, Brad said, ‘So, do you want to know who you are?’ and I said, ‘Yes, please tell me,’ and then he said, ‘Okay, but do you want to know who you really are?’ And I said yes, and he said, ‘You’re a young man who is coming to town who just lost his mother and on her deathbed, she told you to find your father. You deduce from a number of newspaper clippings and pieces of evidence that your mother was a Forrester Creations model and that your father must be Ridge Forrester — and that’s not going to be true. Then, you’re going to think that maybe your father is Thorne Forrester and that’s not going to be true, and it’s going to turn out that your father is Bill Spencer, and you’re going to have a tumultuous relationship, and I said, ‘Oh, my God. This is so cool!’ So, I knew before my first day that I was going to be Don Diamont’s [Bill] progeny.”

And you still took the job. “[