From the March 28, 2011 issue of CBS Soaps In Depth (pp. 10-11): Colin's Staying! Will His Son Be Back, Too?Although Tristan Rogers originally signed on for just 10 episodes as the dastardly Colin on Y&R, it now looks like the dashing Aussie will make Genoa City a permanent home!When
Soaps In Depth caught up with Rogers to get the scoop on his alter ego, we got the best news ever: "They've given me a contract," the actor confirms. Of course, this means that the underhanded Mob boss will be sticking around for a while. And, says Rogers, viewers can see that change in the writing. After all, it's perfectly fine for an occasional villain (like Daisy or Patty) to be an unrepentant schemer, but if a character is going to be a Genoa City mainstay, he has to be at least a
little redeemable.
"If I could use one word that they're applying [to him], it's that [the writers] have 'softened' him," Rogers muses of his character's change since his debut last December. "It's almost like we're going through a stage of redemption. Whether that's a smoke screen, I don't know."
Viewers might have thought that like Paul Leyden (ex-Blake) before him, Rogers would have been a goner once Cane bit the dust. But the actor promises that there's plenty more Colin to come. "We haven't even scratched the surface as to who this guy is," Rogers notes. "What's his background, and what's his real connection to Cane?" Does this mean there's hope that Cane is really alive, despite being gunned down outside a church on screen and Lily's ghostly visions? After all, this wouldn't be the first time in recent history that Y&R pulled a bait and switch. (Just ask Adam, Skye and Chance about that.)
"There's something there," Rogers says of the mystery. But he further insists that he has no intel on future plot twists. "I've made it a point of not asking [what's really going on]. I'm taking it as it's handed to me."
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