Daphne Zuniga thinks in a different way about her Melrose Place character now that the beloved primetime cleaning soap has been off the air for 25 years.

Her kindhearted and empathetic photographer Jo Reynolds was regularly put by the ringer throughout her 4 seasons on the present, from 1992 to 1996. Reflecting on how typically Jo discovered herself by the hands of an abusive man, Zuniga just lately informed The Hollywood Reporter that "it was straightforward to make her a sufferer of dangerous relationships." Maybe too straightforward.

"I want she'd had extra independence and profession development," Zuniga continued. "Towards the top, all of it felt repetitive — not only for my character, however for everybody…. That's what occurs when a present runs a very long time."

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Zuniga at present cohosts the Melrose Place rewatch podcast Nonetheless the Place together with her former costars Laura Leighton and Courtney Thorne-Smith. Whereas Leighton acquired to cycle by a variety of narrative arcs because the free-spirited Syndey Andrews, from sufferer to scheming seductress to blackmailer to harmless ingenue, and Thorne-Smith's Alison Parker had a wealthy skilled life regardless of her hardships, Zuniga appeared to get caught with essentially the most traumatic storylines.

Jo moved into the titular condo complicated in season 1 contemporary off a divorce from the dashing businessman Charles Reynolds (Linden Ashby). Whereas different residents appear perplexed that Jo would depart such a catch with out even a word, Charles' drunken and abusive tendencies are revealed in a daunting early episode when he comes in search of reconciliation with Jo.

The next season, Jo rekindles issues with outdated flame Reed Carter (James Wilder), an ex-con who has begun to lapse again into his outdated methods, regardless of telling Jo he's gone straight. Jo turns into the middle of one among Melrose Place's most terrifying sequences when she discovers medicine on Reed's boat, inflicting him to knock her unconscious in a violent rage, sexually assault her after she wakes up, and lock her beneath deck. Jo is barely capable of escape after capturing Reed, however her troubles don't finish there.

The kid she bears from her relationship with Reed turns into the topic of a kidnapping plot, she ultimately enters into one other abusive relationship with Jess Hanson (Dan Cortese), and experiences additional romantic tribulations with Richard Hart (Patrick Muldoon). Finally, Jo finds love and marriage with the one man who by no means damage her — Grant Present's Jake Hanson — nevertheless it took a whole lot of hassle in simply 5 years to get there.

When requested who she would have preferred to swap characters with if she had the prospect, Zuniga supplied three solutions: She first pointed to Heather Locklear's Amanda Woodward, as a result of she "had some nice zingers," then Thomas Calabro's Michael Mancini, "if he had been a girl." Lastly, she picked the one different character on the present who went by as a lot, if no more, grief than Jo, Marcia Cross' Kimberly Shaw.

"She was so daring and unapologetically in your face. That may've been a blast to play," Zuniga mentioned.

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Now together with her personal platform to debate the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff on her personal phrases, Zuniga has been publicly coming to phrases with the ups and downs of taking part in Jo Reynolds. In response to a fan query on a January episode in regards to the present's most "excessive" storylines, Zuniga known as out "the factor about Jo's child."

"Jo has a child, then it's kidnapped. I imply, I used to be on David Letterman as soon as," Zuniga joked. "I couldn't sustain with the place the child went. It was kidnapped. Then I acquired him again. Then he was stolen once more. Then lastly I gave him up ultimately. It's like, that was excessive, you understand?"

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