SOAP Q: “Men’s Health” cover man Ryan Phillippe talks about his days playing a gay teen on “One Life to Live.”

Long before there was KISH, Ryan Phillippe played gay teenager Billy Douglas on ABC’s One Life to Live.

The 34-year-old actor had not yet starred in such films as Cruel Intentions, Gosford Park, Igby Goes Down, Crash and Stop-Loss when he was on the soap and his character the first gay teenager on a daytime soap opera paving the way years later for Luke Snyder on As the World Turns.

In a Men’s Health cover story featuring a now very studly Ryan, the actor said of his 1992-93 soap stint: “I would worry, ‘What will the people at school think?’ And they shunned me in a lot of ways. But it ended up being an incredible experience and such a time of growth for me.”

Here are some clips of Ryan as Billy all those years ago: