Photo courtesy of MySpace.com/MarcusPatrick Credit: Photograph courtesy of MySpace.com/MarcusPatrick

When I called Marcus Patrick (Jett, Days) to behave our phone interview, things started out normal plenty with him telling me he was preparing to audience for the primetime serial Cold Example. Things took a plow notwithstanding when he said he was going to apply the restroom while he continued to talk to me. I idea he was kidding until I heard the affluent of the toilet! It was definitely a new one for me, merely I quickly learned it was all just function of his philosophy of "keeping it real."

While fans may be upset to learn Marcus is leaving the role of Jett Carver, he looks at it in a positive light. Throughout our conversation I learned that Marcus has very specific ideas about what roles he'd truly like to play and why he isn't exactly unhappy nigh leaving the world of soaps.

Upon hearing the news he was being let go, Marcus was at first taken aback, but as information technology started to settle in, he realized that moment had been coming. A cocky-described gratuitous spirit, the thespian, whose forepart cover issue of Playgirl magazine had just come out in September, had a sneaking suspicion his risqué layout had something to do with the decision.

Even though, co-ordinate to the actor, executive producer Ed Scott merely told him he was existence dropped because, "That's evidence business," Marcus recalled, "I wondered if there was going to be some people who were far too conservative with a stiff upper lip, looking at Playgirl and taking offense to nudity."

Joining the NBC sudser in June of this yr, Patrick had hoped, "I was going to catch some sort of meaty, youth, cultural, interesting, theme topic to get right into as a function and grip people into information technology." Unfortunately that didn't exactly happen equally his character was immediately thrown into a contrived homo trafficking storyline.

Although he feels, "Information technology was proficient for what information technology was. I had fun with the disbelieveable Bear upon the Sky storyline; that was fun for a minute," Marcus saw the writing on the wall, "I knew something wasn't right when [my character] was shot on an cloak-and-dagger performance and instead of getting a medal of award for working hard on the situation, they wrote that my character had failed and he became a flashlight cop at the Academy."

Just apparently leaving Salem suits him just fine, as he doesn't exactly feel like he fits into the earth of soap operas anyway. Describing the directing in soaps as erstwhile fashioned and the storylines and acting equally forced, Marcus refused to conform to their standards. As he explained, "[Daytime is a] globe of fantasy that's supposed to exist where no one curses, no 1 is sexual, no 1 ever dies because they always come back from the expressionless and yet, with all that being said, they're trying to create storylines around all of those topics. Drugs, incest and decease is the theme constantly in daytime and yet y'all can't actually cross the line and express it in it's true form."

For him, Marcus says he takes a more realistic approach to acting, stating, "You give me a piece of cloth and I look at it and think 'Where'due south the truth hither?' I want to keep it real. I want to make it raw and then I experience information technology. When I feel it I relish it; if I enjoy it then my fans will savor it."