Defamer
If you're skeptical that there exists a entertainment industry strata below being the token himbo on a The View knockoff alongside a steroid-swelled cautionary tale and a man old enough to be your great-grandfather's crazy uncle, we invite you to grab a jackhammer alongside Mario Lopez and explore what lies beneath showbiz's rock-bottom:
SAVED BY THE BELL alum Mario Lopez is joining B&B in the contract role of Dr. Christian Ramirez, Hector’s younger brother. This is the first soap role for Lopez, who has done prime-time episodic work and was most recently a co-host on THE OTHER HALF, Dick Clark’s short-lived male answer to THE VIEW. Lopez first airs in mid-March.
We'd never begrudge a guy wanting to put food on the table, but when Lopez bravely—nay, defiantly—bounced on the end of that diving board in Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story nearly a decade ago, we truly believed his career trajectory would be more Mark-Paul Gosselaar than Mr. Belding.
- Breaking News [SoapOperaDigest.com]
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In all fairness, The Bold and the Beautiful is absurdly popular internationally, so there's some exposure in this for Slater. (Write your own "exposure" joke here. I'm too tired.) What I'm really looking forward to is watching Lopez try to handle 20-odd pages of dialogue per day. The first time he's not completely prepared, Susan Flannery is so kicking his ass.
Susan Flannery may be able to kick his ass, but I can't wait for the scenes between Slater and Lorenzo Lamas (Hector). That is a lot of crappy, wooden acting for one TV screen.
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