Hmph. If every actor were to pipe up about their character's weird missteps in the writing, and be replaced as a result, there would be no familiar faces left in soaps, lol. It seems homosexuality is a bit of a hot spot, doesn't it.
I guess those that feel so strongly one way or the other might be advised to choose another line of work.
I think it's poor recasting; the replacement is far too young to play Carlotta! FAR too young... She's supposed to be Antonio's and Cristian's mother, and the woman who had a fling with Clint many years ago? Viki's contemporary? Please...
I think that Patricia Mauceri was extremely unwise to make such a fuss about a minor involvement for her character in this storyline, in this climate of actors' being fired for speaking out. And anyway, characters are being written all the time to do things that we ALL know he or she would never do, if there were any consistency. Not that I like it, as a viewer, but it's what happens when the writers try to think outside the box.
What a shame.
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I think it was SOD that said that perhaps this was just a stunt. It says they saw how much publicity Y&R got for the Adam mess. It could be, who knows. They also said she made a stink way back when they changed the name of the diner.
I don't THINK so, Brandon, but my memory is a bit shaky on that. I thought that Antonio's mother died when he was really young, and that's when Carlotta adopted him as her own. I think that this actress played the woman who tried to seduce Antonio...
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The casting departments really do need to pay closer attention to the ages of the actors they hire. This one is almost as bad as Di on AMC who was supposed to old enough to be JR's mother when in reality they were only a few years apart in age.
Straight from my favorite character profile place.
After learning that his mother, Carlotta, was the sister of infamous crime lord Manuel Santi, Antonio immersed himself deep undercover to investigate the crime family and gave Jamie to R.J. to look after, infiltrating himself in the life of local bar owner Sonia Toledo, who turned out to be connected to the Santis. Sonia eventually led him to Tico, who Antonio began to suspect was El Tiburón, the head of the Santi crime family. At the same time, he also met Santi governess, Angelina Paredes, and felt a strong connection to her. Through the course of his investigation, Antonio learned that his entire life was based on a lie; he was really Manuelito Santi, the eldest child of Manuel and Isabella, who had been adopted by Carlotta and Diego as a child to protect him from Manuel.
The news of his true parentage nearly destroyed Antonio. Unable to cope with what he had learned, he broke off his relationship with Jessica, and fell into bed with Sonia, whom he had learned was an INL agent. The two continued to investigate El Tiburón, and at one point, they even believed that Isabella had been the mastermind. Antonio and Sonia were eventually able to prove that Tico was El Tiburón, but then Tico ended up dying in the hospital. While the whole town wondered who killed Tico, Antonio was shocked when his brother Cristian turned up alive and well. The joy was short-lived, though, as Antonio was soon devastated to learn that Cristian was an imposter brainwashed to kill him on Tico's orders (in reality, it truly was Cristian, but he pretended he was an imposter).
