Jack Wagner can nonetheless bear in mind his daring audition to affix the forged of Melrose Place — and the awkward expertise it led to on his first day of taking pictures.

Theactor, who had beforehand starred on Common Hospital for eight years, recalled passing on the chance to audition for the primetime cleaning soap at first, joking that he modified his thoughts after being advised, "'You'd be working reverse Heather Locklear.'"

He took the season 3 script that may debut his character and "flew throughout a protracted flight from Montreal, and altered the whole lot," he advised his former Melrose Place costars Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga, and Laura Leighton on Sunday's episode of their Still the Place podcast.

When the time got here to audition, Wagner recalled, "I went in and skim with the casting director, and did this complete improvisational, fully off script — acquired proper in her grill, grabbed her face, you recognize, performed along with her hair — did the whole lot, proper? Simply went for it, and acquired the half."

To this point, so good. Then got here his first day on set.

When Wagner found the primary scene he'd shoot as Dr. Peter Burns, the chief of employees at Wilshire Memorial Hospital, was the scene he auditioned with, "I begin doing what I did within the audition… I feel the director was like, 'Yeah, reduce. Jack, it’s worthwhile to name [series creator] Darren Star. He's ready to speak to you.'"

Not pondering something was amiss, Wagner recollects Star asking him, "'What's happening?'" Wagner nonchalantly replied, "'I don't know. I'm simply form of doing it the way in which I did within the audition.' And he goes, 'Yeah, we do the traces which might be written right here.'"

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Wagner's Peter Burns begins off as strict and severe, however solely out of an abundance of ardour for his work. Because the sequence progressed, nevertheless, he grew merciless, vindictive, and even ruthless when he was crossed.

Although he solely overlapped with Zuniga for a single season, and Leighton and Thorne-Smith for 2, his character's romance with Locklear's Amanda Woodward turned one of many sequence' most indelible. Their relationship blossomed off-screen, as properly, once they started courting in 2007. The pair had been engaged in Aug. 2011, however then scrapped that announcement three months later.

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Each Wagner and Locklear remained within the core forged of Melrose Place till the sequence finale in 1999. Although Wagner hasn't mentioned whether or not he'll seem in CBS' deliberate reboot of the sequence, Locklear might be returning, alongside Leighton and Zuniga. A earlier reboot of the present killed Leighton's character off throughout the first seven minutes, however as anybody accustomed to the Darren Star TV universe can attest, the potential for drama transcends all limits — even dying.

You’ll be able to hearken to the remainder of Wagner's look on Nonetheless the Place above.

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