{"id":94941,"date":"2026-04-05T22:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94941"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:48:14","slug":"strange-bedfellows-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/strange-bedfellows-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While promoting <strong><em>Project Hail Mary<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Ryan Gosling <\/strong>revealed that one of the biggest inspirations as an actor came from the daytime drama <strong><em>Days of our Lives<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cWhen Marlena, <strong>Deidre Hall<\/strong>, gets possessed&#8230;it was an incredible acting class.\u201d&nbsp; When Hall heard about this, she went online and extended an invitation.&nbsp; \u201cHi Ryan, this is an open invitation to visit the <em>Days of our Lives <\/em>set.&nbsp; Nobody will be possessed.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; In record time, Gosling responded.&nbsp; \u201cDeidre Hall, are you kidding me?&nbsp; Yes, I will be there to thank you in person for being my OG acting inspiration.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t <strong>Marlon Brando <\/strong>in <strong><em>On the Waterfront<\/em><\/strong>, it wasn\u2019t <strong>DeNiro <\/strong>in <strong><em>Taxi Driver<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; It was you.&nbsp; I\u2019m not worried about the possession.&nbsp; I\u2019ll say a <em>Hail Mary <\/em>before I get there.&nbsp; I\u2019ll be fine.&nbsp; See you on set.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In case Deidre Hall and Ryan Gosling weren\u2019t strange bedfellows, let me direct your attention to <strong>Daniel Radcliffe<\/strong>, who is currently knocking \u2018em dead with <strong><em>Every Brilliant Thing<\/em><\/strong> on <em>Broadway<\/em>.&nbsp; Since this is a solo show (with copious amounts of audience participation), the casting of his replacement is tricky.&nbsp; Someone with the right set of skills was needed.&nbsp; Drama, comedy and improv.&nbsp; Naturally, the first person who came to mind was&#8230;<strong>Mariska Hargitay<\/strong>!&nbsp; This will mark Hargitay\u2019s <em>Broadway <\/em>debut.&nbsp; It should be noted that her mom, <strong>Jayne Mansfield<\/strong>, made her <em>Broadway <\/em>debut in 1955 at the tender young age of 22.&nbsp; When Mariska takes over on May 26<sup>th<\/sup>, she\u2019ll be 62.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While promoting Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling revealed that one of the biggest inspirations as an actor came from the daytime drama Days of our Lives.&nbsp; \u201cWhen Marlena, Deidre Hall, gets possessed&#8230;it was an incredible acting class.\u201d&nbsp; When Hall heard about this, she went online and extended an invitation.&nbsp; \u201cHi Ryan, this is an open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94942,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94941\/revisions\/94942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}