Another Round For Y&R's 'Jack'
The soap opera The Young and the Restless received a record 21 nominations for the Daytime Emmys, to be handed out Friday night on CBS. They include a 10th consecutive nomination as Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama Series for actor Peter Bergman, who plays Jack Abbott. CBS This Morning Mark McEwen interviewed him hours before the awards show.
Peter Bergman, who joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in October 1989, has won two Daytime Emmys, one in 1991 and one in 1992.
What does he think he's doing right? In part it's the character I play," he says. "It's very hard to get a nomination when you are that stolid, true blue, same thing every day kind of character. Jack is very mercurial. One day he is good, another day he's not so nice a guy."
On the show, Jack Abbot is currently engaged to Diane and is acting CEO of Newman Enterprises, since Victor Newman has been missing in a plane crash. Jack and Brad are still trying to come up with a way to take over Victor's company.
Peter says he has a strong instinct about what his character will do when Victor reappears, yet he says his character has surprised him a couple of times. "I ask, am I really going to do this?Â…But it works. You have to trust; we have Emmy Award winner writers. They won't take me anywhere I shouldn't go."
Bergman shares the competition for Lead Actor with fellow Y&R star Eric Braeden, who plays Victor Newman; All My Children's David Canary; General Hospital's Anthony Geary; and One Life To Live's Robert S. Woods.
The Daytime Emmys air Friday, May 21 on CBS at 9-11 p.m. ET/PT, 8-10 PM CT. For more on this year's Daytime Emmys, see CBS TV's Emmy Site.
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