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The characters, and actors who play them, in The Young and the Restless, right to left Ester (Kate Linder), Raul (David Lago), Michael (Christian LeBlanc), Ravi (Abhi Sinha), Jill (Jess Walton), Dina (Marla Adams), Paul (Doug Davidson).
Photo courtesy Jim Gordon and Our City Tonight
Young and Restless stars gather for a good cause
When asked why she was at the Four Seasons
Hotel for the afternoon tea with the cast of The Young and the Restless, Brenda
Smith said, I’ve been a big fan for 20 years.” That and the fact that it was
for charity, to raise funds for the Canucks for Kids Fund, were her main reason
for coming.
Smith, who works in Richmond, got to meet and
greet seven of her favourite actors from the afternoon soap opera the gala
event Sunday, July 15. A multitude of selfies were shot with Kate Linder, one
of the organizers of the event and the actor who plays Esther in the daily
show, as well as with the other personalities who mingled with those at the private
reception that proceeded the high tea’s panel where the cast answered questions
and kibitzed with MCs, Christian Le Blanc who plays Michael and local
journalist and television host, Jim Gordon.
The fans ranged in age from elementary
students to 99-year-old Isabel Jean Smith from Coquitlam, who brought her
daughter with her. The backgrounds of the attendees were equally diverse.
Examples included a Vancouver-educated woman just back from a stint in
Bethlehem as a conflict resolution specialist with women in Palestine and
Israel, a house cleaner, and a retired 90 year-old dentist. The diversity
continued with the cultural background with longitime fans from the Huuayaht
First Nation near Bamfield making the journey from the island to retired
computer programmers who drove up from Seattle for this event that marked 45
years to the day that The Young and the Restless began.
Le Blanc, said he and the cast-mates were
moved to attend the event for the past twenty years, “To see other people in a
community come together to help other people with their problems.”
All cast members donate their time for the
event. The Young and the Restless is a daily show that routinely does 82 pages
of script every shooting day. Other popular weekly shows tend to shoot less
than five per day. They are busy people who work hard, long days and evenings
used to memorise their lines.
Soap operas are often seen as vacuous
entertainment but they can also be a powerful social force.
The Young and the Restless also chooses to
use their drama for education. This year, woven into the show is the reality of
dementia. 80-year-old Marla Adams’ character, Dina Mergeron, illuminates the
issues living with Alzheimers.
Adams said, “It is the most daunting and most
original role I have ever had to play. The writers are working with the
Alzheimer Society every step of the way. The caregivers are the heroes. They
write to me.”
The Sunday, July 15 event raised tens of
thousands of dollars for the Canucks for Kids Fund.
Looking back over her long careers, Adams
said, I’ve been on Broadway and everything but this is the most important role
I have ever attempted.”
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