After more than 30 years portraying Sheila Carter on both “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” actress Kimberlin Brown saw her villainess character meet her maker earlier this week when Sheila was stabbed to death by daughter-in-law Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood).
With the character now “dead,” Brown reveals in an all-new exit interview with TV Insider that she’s open to returning to daytime in another role, whether on her former soaps as a new character or even a new role on “Days of our Lives” or “General Hospital.”
“I would absolutely be open to a daytime return,” declared Brown to “Soap Dish” columnist Stephanie Sloane. “This is my happy place. This is where I have really been thriving the last couple of years. It took me 62 years to find myself and I finally found myself and this is what makes me happy.”
As for her feelings about her iconic character being killed off, Brown notes it was an “amazing moment” when she got the call from the show’s head writer and executive producer Brad Bell about reprising the role of Sheila in 2021, saying, “I never take anything for granted with my character because she has been that character who is in and out of storyline — here a year, gone a year, here two years, gone three, that sort of thing. As much as I love playing my part, I never really have that security that a lot of other actors have on the show, especially if you’re playing a good girl, so getting that phone call to come back was phenomenal.”
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While she probably wouldn’t have wanted to see the character killed off, Brown shares that she’s going to stay positive about everything, especially since she’s seen others taking the exit of their character in a not so positive light in the past. “I tried my best to be lighthearted about it,” she states. “I’ve seen people before when they exit, and they’re very angry. I can’t be angry because I’ve been so blessed to play my character as long as I have.”
Meanwhile, for those questioning whether Sheila’s truly dead this time, Brown says that when tuning into the air shows, “This one might be tough to come back from.”
To read more about what Brown says about her exit from “The Bold and the Beautiful,” click here.