Chuck Pratt On Rebecca Budig "She's My Favorite"
By Johnathon on October 15, 2009
Everyone's favorite Pine Valley wrecker Charles Pratt, Jr. gave Soap Opera Digest a few lovely statements about the return of 'his girl' Rebecca Budig in the role of Greenlee Smythe.
Everyone's favorite Pine Valley wrecker Charles Pratt, Jr. gave Soap Opera Digest a few lovely statements about the return of 'his girl' Rebecca Budig in the role of Greenlee Smythe.
Oddly enough, I always thought, regardless of the move, and regardless of who we're losing and who we're getting, from the minute we lost her and she was coming to L.A. I kept thinking, 'we're going to get her back. It's going to take about a year.' Luckily, I laid in the story and had it in my mind this whole time"
She's always been my favorite"
So where exactly does one start with those comments?
For me, two things immediately come to mind. The first, why is this man still writing this show? If Rebecca and the character of Greenlee are his favorites, and have 'always' been, then what do you call the whole last stint? If he does that to his favorites, I hate to think of what he does to the people he doesn't like. Oh wait, we saw what he does. He makes them do a dance marathon for two weeks, if they are lucky.
The second thing that comes to mind for me is WHY is this man allowed to give interviews? I enjoy Rebecca and the character of Greenlee, but when you are losing iconic actors and characters left and right, I don't get making Greenlee seem as if she is the second coming of All My Children. It is setting up not only her return, but also the show, for an utter failure.
And let's not even get started on the part about having a 'long story' planned out since she left. Maybe that explains why the 'Who Shot Adam' story has been all over the place. Pratt has been plotting out the return of Greenlee.
So am I crazy? Should i just sit back and relax and wait for the Greenlee to rise out of the tomb and save All My Children from its utter demise, or am i just crazy enough to be right?
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25 December 2008
4 hours 27 min
Stay classy Pratt. Why is everyone in charge of daytime, idiots? Lord have mercy, the genre is dying!
31 July 2008
44 min 22 sec
Oh no, there she goes.
23 July 2008
2 hours 16 min
She's not like that bitch Eden Riegel. It's nice to see Luke and Chuck have something in common.
This man isn't fit to write for sock puppets let alone people.
7 March 2009
12 weeks 6 days
She is my Favorite too.
I LOVE Greenlee!!!!!! Well, Even though I have fallin in love with Annie.
1 April 2009
8 hours 35 min
Uggggh! So glad I don't watch this crap show anymore. Sorry people, but it's SOOO BAD now.
For the Record, Julia Barr was my favorite. Hmmm....how was she written out again?? Ohhhhh, that's right.....
14 November 2007
22 hours 23 min
UGH - the only good thing about Greenlee coming back to AMC is seeing her reaction to Ryrica. That should be hilarious! Otherwise, I could care less.
This show is a damn mess, and bringing RB back isn't going to save it. I've always said that it's never too late to save a show (creatively anyway). That just a few changes can turn everything around, but this show is as close to the point of no return as I've ever seen. Fire Pratt and Carruthers STAT. AND fire the dialogue writers as well.
btw, nice to have you back Johnathon!!
20 November 2008
7 weeks 1 day
What a dumb f**k. Great message to send out to the rest of the cast Pratt.
Attention MCE--You know all the hard work you have done at AMC--no matter what crap s/l you've been given? You know how through all the backstage BS in the last few years--you still fought for your job and managed to make Annie one of the few bright spots on this dismal show?
Well, I am sorry to tell you--but Pratt says he loves RB. I think you're screwed.
19 August 2009
2 hours 1 min
How big a douche can anyone be??? I'm not sad to say I'm done with AMC. Sorry Darnell and Debbi, even you, my favorites cannot make me watch this **** anymore
16 August 2008
2 hours 23 min
If Pratt's planned story is serious David/Greenlee, after she kicks King Lavery to the curb after learning he did her BFF and her mother before she was even "cold," then I'll take back every bad word I said about him!
26 November 2008
1 hour 11 min
For some reason reading this made me think of an entire Pratt monologue in my head so I wrote it down:
Pratt: "She's the real Greenlee, y'all! Yes, that ad campaign was totally my idea. When I told her that Greenlee would be "dying" by flying off a motorcycle in her wedding dress, she thought it was the most genious idea I ever had. Obviously, she hasn't been watching the show because I think the faux-Kendall story is pretty genious. She's a team player, unlike Eden Riegel and Tamara Braun. All I did was give them a storyline which was the exact opposite of what I told them it would be and they whine like little babies. Anyways, back to the star and no I'm not talking about Erica Kane. Why does everyone assume that Erica Kane is the star. I just don't see her appeal. Well, I have to go and write a three-way between Greenlee/Ryan/Erica. Wait...did I say three-way, I meant triangle. I get confused sometimes."
18 February 2009
1 hour 52 min
I love Rebecca Budig, but that's immaterial to the focus of this story.
On topic, my reaction is this: There is nothing that man says that does not sound creepy to me!
PRATT IS THE PROBLEM!
PRATT IS THE PROBLEM!
PRATT IS THE PRO-
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-BLEM!!!
14 November 2007
22 hours 23 min
GossipGirl: LMAO!!!
4 March 2009
22 weeks 7 hours
I am so pissed off @ Pratt for treating Sabine Singh like a leper when Rebecca showed an intrest in coming back to All My Children then to let go of a woman to whom I think was the best Greenlee ever.Sabine made Greenlee more human with a heart.Rebecca's Greenlee falls flat.Pratt is uprooting the whole show just to have Rebecca back.That is insane.Pratt should kiss Sabine's A$$ and give her the moon to have her back.And tell her regretfully that he and Brian Frons both made bad decesion by doing this...I do believe the genre of daytime is fading to black just like my Beloved Guiding Light.Tweedledee(Frons)And Tweedledum(Pratt Jr)Get your lips off of Rebecca's butt and hire Sabine Back if Greenlee is so important to the show.And if you do bring back Greenlee please for God's sake Bring back Jackson played by the very talented Walt Wiley...And Keep the show where it belongs in New York...
14 November 2007
22 hours 23 min
LaraCroft23: You bring up a good point. I've been wondering what the point was of getting rid of Jackson since Greenlee is coming back? They really should bring WW back...Jackson humanized Greenlee for me...
2 January 2009
8 weeks 2 hours
please pratt! you do soaps professionally, not fanfics! if you're gonna helm a soap, then write stuff that doesn't sound like a teenage girl w/ ADD wrote.
also never do interviews cause you sound as bad as ken corday.
15 July 2008
2 hours 24 sec
Way to spit on the rest of the cast!
23 July 2008
2 hours 16 min
It's almost as bad as his Jamie Luner comments.
14 November 2007
22 hours 23 min
Do you think Jamie Luner's reading this and thinking, "WTF?! I thought *I* was his favorite!" lol
18 July 2009
21 weeks 3 days
I don't get it. She's a mediocre actress in a mediocre role who sleepwalked her way through a ridiculous storyline during her last stint. Does she not remember what happened to Eden & Tamara? Or Cady McClain? Obviously she hasn't been watching the show (who could blame her) because then she would know that Pratt has gotten a helluva lot worse since she left. Doesn't it bother anyone at ABC that this guy has spent his time laying the groundwork for bringing a character/actress back instead of writing good storylines for the folks that are already ON CANVAS? Wasn't there another article (in TV Guide, maybe?) wherein Rebecca said that Pratt didn't have a solid storyline for her character and basically asked her to pitch to him??? She has to know that the storyline tiic are going to pimp is the most horrible triangle ever in Greenlee/Ryan/Erica. Good grief. This is made of fail.
Oh and Pratt should never be allowed to give interviews without adult supervision.
22 January 2009
28 min 7 sec
God, he's so high school! She's my BFF, no wait, she's my BFF, wait, wait now she's my BFF and all my other friends are, like, such losers. Totally, like, she gets me and stuff, and the other like don't because I'm like deep and stuff and they aren't.
WHY DOES THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB?! Soaps are dying and this immature moron has killed AMC. That show is not gonna be renewed next year, if they last that long. God, I hate him.
1 July 2009
1 hour 47 min
WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!!
I mean this guy constantly puts his foot in his mouth, I love RB, too, but my goodness. Why does he still have a job have no idea.
Can't we just give him to the CW, so he can write for the new MP, I mean Heather Locklear is back. Wasn't she his favorite?
11 November 2008
3 hours 16 min
I think it's pretty simple...Frons LOVES Rebecca..so what better way to stay in good graces than to be a YES man
Sorry to disappoint but with Pratt and Guza both on the west coast playing connect 4 via their iphones...neither show we get better and both will stay as long as they want...
28 February 2009
5 hours 6 min
Regarding Pratt's comment about Budig:
Are those his words, or is Frons putting them in Pratt's mouth?
14 December 2008
12 hours 51 min
He's had this storyline in mind for *months* now? I don't think so! If he did, then why did he ask her what her storyline should be? this hack can't write anything!
I have nothing against Rebecca, in fact I *love* her but I don't think this proprosed storyline will be any better with her as long as Pratt's in charge.
15 July 2008
2 hours 24 sec
Jamey, Luke - I have to ask for comment here...
I just finished reading Suds for the week. Nelson talked about how Frons is so obsessed with RB that he moved the show to get her back. Not to mention Pratts comments in this article.
So I am wondering - as a huge KeMo fan who has had to listen to crap from various quarters for pretty much the last two years about how she is a Frons pet and how that is so terrible, not to mention the insulting and baseless insinuations that she must have done something untoward to become a pet I have to ask what do you make of Rebecca's return to AMC. A CASTING CALL went out for Sam when Kelly didnt sign fast enough for their tastes - so I doubt they would EVER think about moving a show just for her. So are there different levels of "petness"?? Put this into perspective for me. Just wondering??
2 July 2009
4 weeks 2 days
Does he mean she's his favorite person to look at naked?
15 July 2008
2 hours 24 sec
Favorites - its impolitic for a writer, producer, executive to say publically someone is their favorite, but I sort of think its human tendancy to have them. Most people are smart enough not to talk about it. That said, I think if one actress is going to get bashed for allegedly being a favorite, then one who has been labeled as such should get bashed too.
18 February 2009
1 hour 52 min
The stupid Pratt would probably answer the question if someone asked him, "Who's your favorite child?"
And, of course, he'd be wrong.