Days of Our Lives’ Ros Gentle opened up about what Rachel’s exit from the show means for her.
Did he kill her? Is someone holding her captive somewhere? That’s what Days of Our Lives fans are wondering about what EJ may have done with Kristen’s mom, Rachel Blake. EJ tried using the CRS-17 serum to erase her memory, but she was too savvy and swapped it out with a placebo without EJ knowing. So he then moved toward her menacingly, and we haven’t seen her since. Ros Gentle opened up about her character’s exit and the future.
She’s Open To Returning
Explaining to Soap Opera Digest that all doors in soap operas are never closed, Gentle posited, “They’ll reincarnate me. The door was nailed shut before, right? [Rachel] was killed, or so they thought 25 years ago or something.” She was referring to the fact that Rachel, aka The Woman in White, was last seen in Salem in 1995 and was then played by Pat Delaney.
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The fact that Rachel has disappeared doesn’t mean she’s gone for good. This is Salem, after all, where death isn’t the hindrance it used to be. “I’d love to return,” she enthusiastically stated. “I want to know what’s happened to me because it was not clear when I left. I can’t say too much. I’m waiting to see what happens after a while.”
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Everyone Was Friendly
Gentle explained that her experience on the show was fun and found everyone to be “welcoming” when she started. “Everyone was really friendly and really lovely,” she gushed. She further explained that she would have to learn eight scenes every night and would work with a dialogue coach before shooting. Once she felt comfortable with everything, she said, “I could easily walk into Stacy [Haiduk, Kristen] or Dan’s [Feuerriegel] room and say, ‘Let’s run these lines.’ Everyone was really good about running lines because once you got on that set, it was one take. That’s it.”
She noted that the most difficult scenes to shoot were the one in which she knocked out Ava (Tamara Braun) and the one where she stabbed Ava. She explained that the directors had difficulties making the shots look good and tried them from several angles, ultimately resorting to a “jump-cut” to make them work. Whether Gentle’s Rachel will return to the canvas remains to be seen, but she clearly had fun playing the off-kilter woman.
