The ninth episode of “Soapy Hosted by Rebecca Budig and Greg Rikaart,” which is the new audio and video podcast series that takes a deep dive into the legacy, fandom, and enduring appeal of soap operas, will feature former “General Hospital” and “All My Children” star Eva LaRue.
Releasing Tuesday, September 2, the episode sees LaRue sitting down with hosts Rebecca Budig (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “All My Children”) and Greg Rikaart (“The Young and the Restless,” “Days of our Lives”) as she discusses in an exclusive clip released to Soap Opera Network the sacrifices her late mother, Marcie, made to help her career, and how she never had a back up plan to fall upon, emphasizing how she had to make it in acting no matter what.
“She just passed a couple of years ago,” LaRue said, responding to Rikaart referencing how her mother would donate blood to help pay for LaRue and her sister to attend dance school.
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“My sister and I were pretty good dancers, so we got dance scholarships; otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to afford dance class. But the dance scholarships were in L.A., so she gave blood for gas money to drive us to L.A., basically five days a week after school. And she was working two jobs under the table. We were on welfare until I was about 16, and she just really killed herself for it,” LaRue continued. “She just really wanted us to be able to really live out our dreams, and we were lucky that it was actually what we wanted – my sister and I were both singers and dancers, and into theatre and all the things. She really did everything she could to give us that dream.
“The rest of my family was like, ‘What are you doing?’ I remember my uncle saying to me at one point, he was like, ‘This is really cute what your mom is doing for you and everything, but, like, what’s your fallback plan? You’ve got to have a plan B.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t have a plan B.’ He said, ‘Well, that’s crazy. Your chances of making it in this industry…’ but I think because I did not have a fall back plan – I think when you have a fall back plan, you’re going to fall back on that plan! I did not have a fallback plan, and it wasn’t like my mom could support me in L.A. We were broke, so if I didn’t make it, there wasn’t anybody paying for my rent. It was make it or die.”
Watch our exclusive clip below.
In a separate clip released by CBS, LaRue compares her experience returning to daytime in 2019, this time on “The Young and the Restless” as Celeste Rosales, after spending several seasons as Natalia Boa Vista in the primetime drama “CSI: Miami.”
Check out the clip below.
Future episodes of “Soapy” will include interviews with Scott Clifton (Liam Spencer, “The Bold and the Beautiful”), Cameron Mathison (Drew Cain, “General Hospital”), Karla Mosley (Dani Dupree, “Beyond the Gates”) and Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman, “The Young and the Restless”).
Full video episodes are released every Tuesday through September 30 on the CBS brand YouTube channel.
Produced by the Paramount Multiplatform Production Group, “Soapy Hosted by Rebecca Budig and Greg Rikaart” is executive produced by Mike Benson. Andrew Pemberton-Fowler serves as producer.
