Whose
Line Is It Anyway
GETTING HIS ACT TOGETHER
—
which means perfecting his long-winded dialogue — is never
a problem for Days of Our Lives' Matthew Ashford.
He relies on a devoted pair of line-running partners. "One
of them is Wayne Heffley (ex-Vern Scofield
[Note this came out in March of 02, Wayne had yet to return]),"
reveals Ashford. "He has always been a tremendous help. Sometimes,
when I get huge amounts of [dialogue], I'll call him and go, `Wayne,
I'm dying here! Run some lines with me.' And he does. It's very
interesting — especially when I've got love scenes with Jennifer.
Wayne has enjoyed reading Harold and Greta, but he really loves
[playing] Jennifer."
Ashford's other helper is his 4-year-old daughter, Emma, "Although
she doesn't read yet," the actor points out. "So I feed
her her lines, then I say mine, and she delivers hers with the inflection
she feels the character would have. Emma loves to do scenes. She
loves to play Abigail. She even told me that she'd love to be Abigail.
When I told her that Megan Corletto, who plays Abigail, might have
some problems with that, Emma said, `Well, then, maybe we can share
Abigail.' she knew the buzzword.
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