| Reva and Noah embarked on a no-strings attached, sexual relationship last year on GL. But then a funny thing happened: Suddenly, Josh and Olivia were the ones having all the sex! Shucks. The outrageous Kim Zimmer and Mark Dobies released all that pent-up sexual tension at the photo shoot for this special Valentine's Day feature. Beforehand, the actors sat down with Soap Opera Weekly and candidly discussed the dearth of love scenes for Reva and Noah. Call it Pillow Talk, rated PG - at least for the text, not the photos! Kim Zimmer: We haven't gotten to see Reva and Noah be very romantic since the beginning. You haven't seen us have any love scenes in... Mark Dobies: We still kill whenever we can. KZ: We have some stuff that we make charming and lovable, but certainly we have no romantic scenes together. We pretend like we're a romantic couple, but... MD: Sex is alluded to. KZ: Maybe it's because I'm about 15 pounds overweight! MD: No, no, no.... KZ: Maybe the powers believe that if [viewers] see Noah and Reva making love, that it will interfere with Josh and Reva reuniting. Then, why can HE do it? Josh really screwed Reva over. Noah and Reva could be an incredibly romantic couple, because he does love her for who she is. He doesn't put any handcuffs on her. He doesn't judge her. MD: Noah's been with so many women, but he's never had a relationship. So this is the first time Noah's ever given his heart to somebody. She is equal to him, because she's a strong woman. He buries women in romance, but it's surface romance, and he can't do that with Reva. Kim and I have great chemistry, too. We did when we first met. When we have scenes that have romance, they become that much more fun, because we are exploring new areas. KZ: They certainly built a wonderful friendship between these two people, which is what is so interesting about the original concept for the four characters. We were supposed to be each other's sex buddies. I think they saw the chemistry - how much Kim and Mark like each other and enjoy each other's company - and they built the chemistry of our personalities into this relationship. MD: Kim's my buddy. It's like hanging around with a high school pal. We talk about everything. Have you ever met somebody and it's immediately easy to talk to that person, and by the third day you're talking about everything? KZ: I know more about Mark in a shorter amount of time than anyone I've been with at Guiding Light - to the point where a lot of people are like, "What's going on with you two?" Because we are always together. MD: Why not? It's fun just hanging out. KZ: If you enjoy somebody's company, why should you deny it? I appreciate working with Mark because the format is new to him. He'll start saying things to me that I remember being frustrated with 20 years ago! He said, "Do you feel like we've played this scene 15 times?" I was like, "Well, yeah, get ready to play it 85 more times." Your job is to find another take on the same scene, because that is the format - repetition. You have to take two steps backward to go one step forward. That is the nature of the beast. Mark taxes my brain. Robert and I, it's sort of organic - we don't even rehearse. We throw ourselves out there and just do it, because we've worked together for so long. Working with Robert is like putting on an old, stinky shoe. You love nothing more because it's so comfortable. Mark is exciting, because he wants to figure it all out. Of course, I lose my patience. I'm like, "Argh...Oh, my god!" MD: I know when to quit. I'll pick her brain and I'll leave her alone for a while. KZ: He does. He's really good at picking up that vibe from me. But at least he asks the questions. A lot of people won't ask. They don't care or they're embarrassed to have someone think they don't know something. We've had moments where he has been perturbed by me and I've been perturbed with him, but we haven't had a knock-down-drag-out. MD: Any kind of relationship where there are friends, someone is going to get angry or perturbed with somebody. "You don't like me today." KZ: He says that to me all the time. I'm like, "I don't have the energy for you today." It took Robert and me years to get to that place of knowing when to back off. But it's all happening sooner. We're older - well, I'm older...I won't lump Mark into that thing. You know how to get through it faster and you don't hold on to it. In all the years Robert and I have worked together, I think we only had two really huge fights. They were ugly, but I can count them on one hand. I hate arguments. MD: Before I met Kim, Paul (Rauch, executive producer GL) called me into his office. He was sitting back at his desk. I didn't have a lot to say - I was new - and he said, "We're going to hook you up with Kim Zimmer." I was like, "Great, great." We stared at each other for about two minutes. KZ: He didn't know who I was, could care less. MD: Then I met her in the makeup room, and she was full of piss and vinegar. KZ: Originally, he was coming in for Harley. Noah saved Reva's soul. Reva probably would have bottomed out. He motivated her to be who she is, to be wonderfully kooky, and whatever she wanted to be. Josh and Reva never would have done the Woody stuff. That's what Reva finds wonderful about Noah. I would hate for Noah to become another victim of Josh and Reva. Maybe he will get involved in something that Reva as a parent can't tolerate. Or maybe they just grow apart - not that they break up because of Josh and Reva. That happens all the time. I don't think Reva and Noah need to be married to have a relationship. Especially Reva. Marriage to her at this point doesn't mean anything. Even if the writers reunite Josh and Reva, I wouldn't want to see them get married again." |