Mary Beth Evans came in at #48 on the We Love Soaps TV 50 Greatest Soap Actresses countdown back in 2010. We've spoke with her several times over the years about her roles on daytime dramas and indie soaps, highlighted by the interviews we are featuring below from the archive.
August 2010
A four-part in-depth interview with Evans.
On the small world of daytime television: "I was just back at As the World Turns where Jon Linstrom (her co-star Rituals and in Port Charles) is now playing Craig. You’re standing there thinking, “This is so crazy.” I realized this last year, going back to As the World Turns, and going back to Days for the Frances Reid memorial, how big my circle is in daytime. What a gift it is to have all these friends."
Part 1 - Evans' journey of joining THE BAY as a producer and actress, her year on RITUALS, and getting hired on Days of our Lives.
Part 2 - The Days of our Lives phenomenon of Steve & Kayla, the downfall of Shane & Kayla, and her time as ill-defined Katherine on General Hospital.
Part 3 - The rewards and challenges of portraying Sierra on As the World TurnsS, the almost-job at One Life to Live, and why lightning did not strike twice for Steve and Kayla on Days of our Lives.
Part 4 - Life lessons learned and how Evans copes with change. Does anything scare this fearless actress? Find out here!
September 2011
On her first soap opera role in the syndicated Rituals. She played Dakota Lane.
"That show was first run syndication and it hadn't really be done before at nighttime. They didn't really know what to do with it at the time. That was fun and I met Kin Shriner and he took me onto the Merv Griffin show. I saw Kin a couple of years ago in Florida and he took me out on the ocean on his big speed boat in Fort Lauderdale. He's a wild man."
Read the interview here.
November 2011
Evans and Days co-star Peggy McCay (Caroline Brady) joined We Love Soaps TV at the Day of 'Days' event. The conversation moved from the collaborative spirit of the web series community to real-life and Days holiday traditions.
March 2012
Evans previewed her guest appearance in Indie Series Award-winning Pretty.
"It's really collaborative. [Pretty co-star] Genie [Francis] and I have known each other forever, so that was funny, doing Pretty together. My real bent in life is comedy—I just did a comedy play that closed before Christmas—so it was so fun. It was almost like Lucille Ball type comedy. That really is more my personality, and I don't know... somehow I got hung up in this drama world." [She laughs.]
Read the interview here.
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