Scott Clifton revealed he was ready for The Daring and the Stunning to kill off his character, William “Liam” Spencer III, earlier than the writers shocked him and viewers with an epic comeback twist.
Clifton, who has performed Liam on the present since 2010, instructed Cleaning soap Opera Digest on Wednesday, October 29, that government producer and head author Bradley Bell warned him that Liam was going to die this season — but it surely by no means got here to fruition.
“Brad was actually sincere and beneficiant with me and we had a dialog the place he instructed me he felt that Liam had been written right into a nook,” Clifton, 40, recalled. “He mentioned, ‘Liam has gotten married and divorced so many instances and he’s kind of ping-ponged forwards and backwards between these two ladies [Hope and Steffy] so many instances and I don’t know the place to go from right here. However please know that I nonetheless worth you as an worker and an actor.’”
The actor confessed he’d been “apprehensive” about his story line “for at the very least the final decade,” noting that Liam going forwards and backwards between Hope (Annika Noelle) and Steffy (MacInnes Wooden) made him “extra unlikable” each season.
Clifton mentioned he “completely received” the place Bell was coming from since he felt like Liam “by no means” realized his lesson whereas juggling his two love pursuits.
So when Bell knowledgeable Clifton that Liam would have an inoperable mind tumor to finish his character’s time on The Daring and the Stunning, the actor wasn’t shocked.
Annika Noelle and Scott Clifton as Hope and Liam on ‘The Daring and the Stunning.’ Sonja Flemming/CBS through Getty Photos
“Brad was form sufficient to name me into his workplace and sit me down and have an entire dialog with me about why he was [killing Liam off],” Clifton remembered. “He was a complete prince about it. He was like, ‘I like working with you and also you’re an asset to the present, however I’ve found out what I wish to do with Liam.’”
Based on Clifton, Bell deliberate to provide Liam a “actually poignant send-off,” and he started to organize for his swan music on the present.
“I had each motive to imagine that they actually had been going to kill me off on the present,” Clifton mused. “It was a really actual dialog that I had with Brad — I actually was purported to kick the outdated cleaning soap opera bucket.”
Liam, nevertheless, didn’t die. As a substitute, it was revealed in July that Dr. Grace Buckingham (Cassandra Creech) faked Liam’s mind scan to extort thousands and thousands from his father, Invoice Spencer (Don Diamont). Invoice paid for Liam’s experimental remedy and Grace’s plan was uncovered after a deranged Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) shot Liam. (Grace needed the cash to repay her ex’s playing debt.)
“I don’t know precisely what it was that modified his thoughts,” Clifton instructed the outlet of Bell’s swap within the script. “However I received a telephone name at house from Mr. Bell and he mentioned, ‘You understand what? I modified my thoughts. I’m going to determine a option to [spare Liam]. I’ve this concept, and it has to do with Luna and tying these two completely different storylines collectively. I feel I’m going to shoot you.’”
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Bell proceeded to inform Clifton that Liam would get shot, however would survive. Clifton, nevertheless, confessed he was skeptical about his comeback.
“I used to be so thrilled to be employed once more, however I used to be type of going, ‘How on earth are you gonna pull this off? I imply, sure, it’s a cleaning soap opera, however you could have established past any query that this dude is dying!’” Clifton defined. “However certain sufficient, he found out this very advanced, elaborate option to save Liam!”
Clifton confirmed he’s excited to proceed his journey on the cleaning soap, joking, “I’d commerce 100 goodbye deathbed speeches for an ongoing profession.”
The Daring and the Stunning airs on CBS weekdays at 1:30 p.m. ET and 12:30 p.m. PT.
