This past Monday marked the final appearance of out actor Scott Evans as gay cop and new father Oliver Fish on the ABC soap One Life to Live.
The young actor recently spoke with AfterElton.com about his breakthrough storyline and its unfortunate end. Here are some excerpts:
AfterElton.com: How are you feeling about everything that happened?
Scott Evans: Sad. That’s the best way to describe it. I mean I could have been mad and angry, but you know what? You can’t be mad. If a storyline gets written off or something changes and you lose a job, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Everybody loses jobs, and that’s fine. I’m more sad about the fact that gay people need to be seen on TV in order to find acceptance — not so much tolerance, but acceptance — and for us to be written off is sad.
AE: Do you buy the reasons?
SE: I don’t know the reasons. The reason they say was that the focus groups and the backlash, and Nick Rodriguez [ex-Nick Chavez] came forward and said all our coworkers were saying stuff. So I don’t know. If that’s what they need to resort to in order to make it okay, then fine. It just sucks. It really, really sucks.
AE: Were you surprised when if happened? How did you find out?
SE: I was surprised, but only because I had done a couple of interviews the week before all this came out, and they asked what’s the future, and I was like, “I don’t know, but I can’t wait to find out. There’s the baby storyline.” And then I find out online, and I was like, “What’s happening?” I asked Brett what was going on, and he said, “I found out yesterday that I was being let go.”
They didn’t need to let me know I was being let go because I’m not a contract. They didn’t need to tell me. As a recurring character all they need to do is stop calling me.
The young actor recently spoke with AfterElton.com about his breakthrough storyline and its unfortunate end. Here are some excerpts:
AfterElton.com: How are you feeling about everything that happened?
Scott Evans: Sad. That’s the best way to describe it. I mean I could have been mad and angry, but you know what? You can’t be mad. If a storyline gets written off or something changes and you lose a job, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Everybody loses jobs, and that’s fine. I’m more sad about the fact that gay people need to be seen on TV in order to find acceptance — not so much tolerance, but acceptance — and for us to be written off is sad.
AE: Do you buy the reasons?
SE: I don’t know the reasons. The reason they say was that the focus groups and the backlash, and Nick Rodriguez [ex-Nick Chavez] came forward and said all our coworkers were saying stuff. So I don’t know. If that’s what they need to resort to in order to make it okay, then fine. It just sucks. It really, really sucks.
AE: Were you surprised when if happened? How did you find out?
SE: I was surprised, but only because I had done a couple of interviews the week before all this came out, and they asked what’s the future, and I was like, “I don’t know, but I can’t wait to find out. There’s the baby storyline.” And then I find out online, and I was like, “What’s happening?” I asked Brett what was going on, and he said, “I found out yesterday that I was being let go.”
They didn’t need to let me know I was being let go because I’m not a contract. They didn’t need to tell me. As a recurring character all they need to do is stop calling me.
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