DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '14 II => Topic started by: Joeytrom on October 30, 2014, 12:51:31 AM
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Does anyone know if she was asked to play Angelique in 1795 before they chose Lara Parker?
Since they hired Thayer David for Ben, I was thinking they may have thought back to the Laura storyline to get DM to also return to the show.
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Interesting question! I had never thought of it before. But I thought that while she was the Phoenix on DS, she was pregnant in real life and would have had a newborn about the time they were setting up 1795.
Anyone know anything about this?
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I think having her play the villain again, a villain which wasn't all that different from Laura, they wouldn't have wanted to do. Just guessing. If they were thinking of bringing Laura herself into 1795 as they did in 1897, to be Barnabas's ball and chain, and serve the same part in the plot as Angelique, that's different.
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I've certainly never heard that suggested in all my years in the fandom. I feel like it would have come up at a fest or in one of the books which go into pretty specific detail about who was up for which part when...
perhaps that's one of the things that makes Diana/Laura an interesting figure in the whole thing. rather than just being another member of the "stock" company Millay was indelibly "the Phoenix". not "1795 streetwalker" or "1840 innkeeper" but just Laura Collins. that's her role (even though each subsequent appearance threw previously established continuity out of whack)
and lore has it Curtis was planning on bringing her back AS LAURA before the show's cancellation in 1971.
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and Diana told me herself at a fest Curtis asked her to come back in 1969. she didn't mention late 67.
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I don't think it would have worked, and I really doubt it was ever suggested. In several interviews, Diana basically said "I was the Phoenix and that was it."
Interestingly, however, Cassandra wore a dress previously seen on Laura... and when she was first resurrected as Vampilique, she was wearing that dress...
G.
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the black robe thing with the white lace collar?
laura must have left it in a closet at the cottage and ang just picked it up.