WILLIAM CHRISTIAN ON DAYS EXIT

It was a befitting end to a reprehensible run as TR Coates on DAYS. The abusive, murdering drug addict met his demise courtesy of a gunshot fired by his own daughter.

“Did he deserve it?” ponders portrayer William Christian. “Well, nobody deserves to die, but as far as a storyline, sure. He met with a justifiable ending.”

And one that didn’t come as a shock to Christian. “The way it was explained to me is he was going to go down a dark hole,” notes the actor, admitting he was left with questions about the character. “Why is somebody a drug addict? I would have loved to explore that a little bit more because it’s self-destructive. You have everything, then you’re sabotaging yourself? I would have liked to investigate a little more of that. Why was the guy doing this stuff? Who did he owe money to? Did the drugs have something to do with that? That’s all.

“But, don’t get me wrong,” Christian quickly adds. “That wasn’t the story. TR was a guy who came in and was affecting Paulina’s life and things between Paulina and Abe. That’s really what the job was and what I was there to do. That job was complete. I did that job, and it was written well. I just wanted to be there a little bit longer.”

Christian, who originally inked a 13-week deal with the soap, actually stuck around past his initially perceived end date. “One of my [acting] partners had to have surgery, so that pushed things back a little bit,” he explains. “Sometimes we had to close the set down because someone would test positive [for Covid]. So it got dragged out a bit.”