ATWT Y&R Bad Boy Tackles Oft-Recast Role! from CBS Soaps in Depth January28 2003 Vol 7, Issue 4 www.SoapsInDepth.com
	The Chase is on at ATWT.

The In Depth Story: Although best known as a member of the clandestine Initiative on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, eagle-eyed soap viewers may recall Chase from a couple of brief stints on another CBS sudser. "I actually worked on Y&R about five or six years ago," he reveals. "I worked with Josh Morrow, playing a buddy of Nicholas'."

After initially trying to come between that soap's Nick and Sharon, Chase returned to stir up trouble between Cole and Vicki. "I was a home wrecker," he laughs. "Getting typecast!" While out in Los Angeles, Chase made an impression on visiting ATWT casting director Mary Clay Boland. "Then, when I was in New York, I met up with Chris Goutman, who is the executive producer," he confides. "And the next time they had a contract role come up, I auditioned for it."

Although the young actor had to shuttle back and forth between his home in  LA and the screen tests in New York, at least he wasn't kept hanging for long. "I found out probably three or four days after the screen test that I got [the role of Chris Hughes]," Chase reports. While he knows little about his upcoming story- line, the fact that Chase screen-tested with Jessica Dunphy (Alison) appears to confirm talk that Chris might be there to help the troublemaking blonde get over Aaron.

Chase admits that while ATWT did fill him in on his character's past, there was one important detail they left out: "What they didn't tell me was that I'm like, the fourth [Chris] in the last few years!" he laughs. "I found that out later."

But taking on the oft- recast role isn't something he fears. "I'm not afraid of not succeeding in this role," he says confidently. "People are probably going to expect less, and when I do well, they'll just be pleasantly surprised."