As the second week begins on the new CBS daytime drama, Beyond the Gates, viewers saw the reveal of what went down after Dani Dupree (Karla Mosley) fired a gunshot during the nuptials of her ex-husband, Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett), and the woman she blames for stealing his heart, Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings).
While everyone survived, Dani’s latest stunt was captured unintentionally on a livestream on her daughter, Chelsea’s (RhonniRose Mantilla) phone, which now has the Dupree family about to hold a press conference to try to sort out the mess. The Monday, March 2nd episode continued to fuel the main story, which featured series stars, Karla Mosley, Marquita Goings and Arielle Prepetit (Naomi).
On Friday, February 28th, Karla, Marquita and Arielle participated in Beyond the Gates first-ever livestream conversation exclusively on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel. While many topics were discussed; as well as the three actresses fielding questions in the live chat from new fans of the show, below are just some of the notable and quotable quotes from the conversation below.
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DANI DUPREE’S MENTAL STATE
After taking out a gun, and almost shooting Bill and Hayley, Dani is still mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore. Karla Mosley previewed, “I’ll say the violence does simmer down. So, she doesn’t go turn it to Rambo and enlist in the army or something, That part does simmer down, but she does not simmer down. Spoiler alert: she doesn’t take it well.”
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EARLY GROWING PAINS IN PRODUCTION
With Beyond the Gates shooting in Atlanta as opposed to where the four other soaps are taped in Los Angeles, as the series was ramping up, there were still a few kinks to work out as with any new show. Karla Mosley shared, “I was sitting in front of Julie Hanan Caruthers, one of the producers, and she said that we didn’t have all our lighting equipment that first week. They were shipping it from Germany and it hadn’t arrived and CBS was like, full steam ahead. And we were like, “But, we have no lights.” We had cameramen who had never shot soaps before. So, we literally had a woman who came out of retirement for a month to month and a half, who was on set teaching them how to get their shots. It was amazing, but everyone was so down. Everyone was so patient and loving with each other and understanding. It did mean that we had to play some insane catch-up. A couple weeks ago I feel like we had material from 17 episodes or something in one week. It was bonkers. We almost all lost our minds. Now we seem to be settling into a more normal schedule of taping five to seven episodes per week.”
GETTING YOUR FEET WET IN THE WORLD OF DAYTIME DRAMA
This is Arielle Prepetit’s first foray into a network television soap opera, and she had high praise for her TV-mom, Karla Mosley: “I grew up watching soaps with my grandma. So, I’d seen Karla on-screen. I know those eyes. I know that woman. She’s set such an amazing example as someone who shows up to set and knows their stuff. I’m like, ‘that’s the model of being a soap actor’ because it’s kind of a new genre for a lot of us. Having someone like Karla who knows what she’s doing has been a blessing.”
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HAYLEY’S STORY
While viewers learn very fast that Hayley is the nemesis of Dani Dupree, there is still a heart to the character. Marquita Goings shared, “I feel like Hayley’s story is so many women’s story out there. We may not know those stories, or they could be kept on the low, but I feel like it needs to be told. But as the nemesis, there’s always a bad guy in someone’s story, I’m just happy that we finally can let everyone know what we all have been working on. It’s just amazing”.
IS DANI DUPREE ‘BEYOND THE GATES’ ANSWER TO REVA SHAYNE, ERICA KANE or BETTE DAVIS?
During the first six episodes of Beyond the Gates, the character of Dani has literally delivered bitch-slaps, cleared a desktop with golf club in anger, threw a drink in her husband’s face, hit the sheets for a one-night stand with a hot photographer, and eventually tried a full takedown at the nuptials of Bill and Hayley. So, how does Karla Mosley view Dani? “She’s not just insane and she’s not just a villain. She’s a mom and she’s very much a part of the family. She makes mistakes and she makes them loudly. I think she’s been asked many times in her life to make compromises, to go along, to get along with her family whereas her sister, Nicole (Daphnee Duplaix), probably just did it pretty easily and was fine. Dani was probably the one to show up hung over to the the church service at the National Cathedral.”
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Karla continued,“Michelle Val Jean (creator, head writer, executive producer and showrunner, Beyond the Gates) mentioned Bette Davis in passing. I will say there is a little Easter egg there. Dani orders a vodka martini very dry. She does that a couple times, which is a call out to Bette Davis. I’m taking that to heart because what I love about these women including Katherine Hepburn, and of course Susan Lucci (ex-Erica Kane, All My Children) and Kim Zimmer (ex-Reva Shayne, Guiding Light), is these women play characters don’t mind, making things uncomfortable and being unlikeable and who make weird choices that are so interesting and fun I think being allowed to do that is such a gift.”
HOW GUIDING LIGHTS’S CHRISTINA AND THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL’S MAYA AVANT PREPARED KARLA MOSLEY FOR BECOMING DANI DUPREE
When daytime fans met Karla Mosley in 2008-2009, she was playing pre-med student Christina Boudreau on Guiding Light. Later, she went on to The Bold and the Beautiful as Maya Avant from 2013-2019, who ultimately was revealed in story to be a trans woman. “I think I couldn’t have played Dani with the same freedom and depth 20 years ago. I think that each of these characters came at a time and sort of paved the way for me to play Dani,” shared Mosley. “Guiding Light’s Christina was sort of really sweet and an introduction to daytime for me, and also to be on such a long running show that we all loved and cherish. I got to meet Lawrence St. Victor (Carter, B&B) there, who is still a dear friend. Then, to move over to The Bold and the Beautiful to play Maya and have an iconic storyline that married my activism, my own identity, it helped me come to terms with many things that I was exploring and wondering about myself during that time. So Maya really grew me, Then, I had two kids and becoming a mother changed me, entirely, It helped me to know myself in a very different way and the depth of what I can do, how I relate to people in the world, and how I stand up to people. I think that strength has prepared me to play Dani.”
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Mosley also shared that she had wished The Bold and the Beautiful would have recast the role of Maya with a trans actress, when she exited the show, sharing, “That’s my personal wish, but it doesn’t always happen that way. I think that it did open up the space for more trans actors to be able to be working.”
HOW THE LAUNCH OF BEYOND THE GATES IS IMPACTING SOAP FANS
Arielle Prepetit revealed that the excitement and response for Beyond the Gates has been overwhelming and positive, “People are saying, ‘I’m so excited to have my own stories to watch and start from the beginning.’ These shows are legendary, and a lot of people couldn’t have started them from the beginning. So, to have people say that, and even DM me, ‘I love that I get to watch this from the start, ‘ it’s really, really touching for me. So, I get emotional almost every day.”
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Watch the full conversation with Karla, Marquita and Arielle below.
Now, let us know, how do you view the characters of Dani Dupree, Hayley Lawson and Naomi Hawthorne Hamilton? What have been your favorite moments on ‘Beyond the Gates’ thus far? Weigh-in via the comment section.
Excellent interview. All three actors are great. But I feel the breakout star is Marquita Goings. I love the character of Hayley. One of the best ever introduced on a soap opera. I feel there’s so much more drama to come.
Please interview the actors who play Martin and Smitty. I wish Martin would be nicer to Smitty and drop the attitude. But then they would be boring. Plenty of drama with them as well.
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This was a very good interview. Thank you. (Every interview I see, everyone in this cast seems so genuinely likeable! It’s wonderful.) They really do need to get on getting Debbi Morgan in to be related to Hayley. That’d be so exciting.
On the Friday, May 8 episode of Beyond the Gates, the CBS daytime drama served up another fantasy sequence between married couple Andre Richardson (Sean Freeman) and Dani Dupree (Karla Mosley). The moment happened after Dani overheard a suspicious conversation and teasingly asks her hubby if he is spy?
This launches into story time by Dani, when she dreams up a scenario straight out of the look of the Blaxploitation films of the early to mid 70s. We are talking Pam Grier in Foxy Brown, Richard Roundtree in Shaft, and Sweet Sweet Badassses Song from Melvin Van Peoples and others.
In Dani’s story, both she and Andre are spies at Orphey Gene’s. Andre reveals he wears an eye patch. In the fantasy, Andre is also deemed to be a men’s underwear photographer from Iowa. The two seems to be double agents.
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After the scenes aired, the official Beyond the Gates Instagram account and Karla Mosley shared it on social, and many of the BTG cast jumped in the comment thread, as the series always brings it in the hair and make-up and wardrobe department and they had this down.
Sean Freeman said, “Sooo much fun shooting this one 🔥,” while Karla Mosley added, “The way I have been waiting for this episode to drop!” BTG Writer, Danielle Paige shared, “One of my fave days to write!!!”
While some fans loved it, others were not so in love with it. Check out the satire below featuring Dani and Andre’s 70s Foxy Brown-esque fantasy.
Then let us know, did you enjoy the repartee and think it was clever, plus the wardrobe, make-up and hair throwing it back to decades ago in the cinema … or do you think it was a waste of time on an episode and would prefer not to see fantasy sequences? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Who would have thought that more uptight of the Beyond the Gates Dupree sisters, Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson (Daphnee Duplaix), would be the one cavorting around with a few different suitors at one time and living it up! Such as the case of the psychiatrist at Garland Memorial Medical Center.
In story, after her decades-long marriage went bust with Dr. Ted Richardson (thanks to the bombshell by Leslie that Ted and her had an affair the result of which was her having his daughter, Eva), Nicole divorced the renowned plastic surgeon and since that time has two men actively vying her attention, newcomer in town, Dr. Kial Robbins (Greg Vaughan) and Ted’s plastic surgeon partner, Dr. Carlton Fitzgerald (Michael Christopher Riley).
What’s refreshing for daytime is, this is a woman taking control of her personal life, and not making excuses that she is not being mutually-exclusive, She has even explained to both Kial and Carlton that after the stormy ending and the betrayal of her marriage to Ted (Keith D. Robinson), she’s not rushing into anything with any sort of short or long term commitment. So, everyone knows what they are getting themselves into.
For Nicole, let the fun begin and this week on all new episodes of Beyond the Gates come the Friday, May 8 episode while with Carlton, Nicole runs into Food Network Chef, Sunny Anderson who is also a regular contributor and official “Drew Crew” member on The Drew Barrymore Show. Meanwhile, Ted is thinking about another woman who Shanice thinks is Leslie, but doesn’t he just love Nicole and wants her back, try as he might to move on with anyone that isn’t her? Stay tuned.
This week, in the latest promo for Beyond the Gates, things are getting hot and heavy in the bedroom between Nicole and Carlton, while previous she had quite the time with Kial.
Check out the latest video teaser for episodes airing May 4-8 below.
So, who do you think will be the ultimate love match for Nicole? Will she wind up back with Ted, choose to be exclusive with Kial or Carlton, or will no one get Nicole, and she will just continue to be single and happy for the rest of her life? Let us know your picks via the comment section.
Your favorite soaps operas on CBS, have a scheduling shift over the next few days for the network’s fifth annual broadcast for the UEFA Champions League Soccer games in Europe.
This will effect the Tuesday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 29; and next week’s Tuesday, May 5 and Wednesday, May 6 line-up of Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless.
First, and the most affected is all-new episodes of Beyond the Gates which will not air today or tomorrow. As well, game show Let’s Make a Deal will also be preempted. The two shows will also be fully preempted on May 5 and May 6.
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However, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful will air as normal for East Coast viewers, but those on the West Coast in Mountain and Pacific Time Zones will have a full preemption. Only, the top-rated The Price is Right will air coast-to-coast with no interruptions because of its time slot of 11am ET/10am PT.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SCHEDULE
The UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, semi-final matches begin airing today on April 28 when Paris Saint Germain PSG plays a home game in France and goes up against Bayern Munich, and on April 29, viewers can look for Atlético de Madrid plays at home vs. Arsenal FC.
Next week, on Tuesday, May 5, Arsenal FC plays at home in England vs. Atletico Madrid, while Bayern Munich faces Paris Saint-Germain, on Wednesday May 6, in Munich, Germany.
CBS will air a one-hour UEFA Champions League Today before each of the matches at 2pm ET as the matches begin each day of the tournament at 3pm ET.
BEYOND THE GATES PREVIEW
When Beyond the Gates returns this Thursday, April 3o it will be the pick-up of the Monday, April 27 cliffhanger which found the Dr. Lia Whitmore (Cecelia Specht) threatening Grayson (Jordi Vilasuso) and Ashley (Jen Jacob) and Dani (Karla Mosley) becoming even more suspicious of Hayley (Marquita Goings) and her plans for Bill (Timon Kyle Durrett).
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In addition look for, Leslie (Tricia Mann-Grant) to be confronted by Anita (Tamara Tunie), while exes, Ted (Keith D. Robinson) and Nicole (Daphnee Duplaix) share a close moment witnessed by Shanice.
For those wanting to catch all episodes of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful if you are in the West Coast time zones and usually watch them during the day. you can catch the action via CBS.com, CBS app or Paramount+
As Beyond the Gates heats up with who’s behind and involved in the black market blood plasma snatching story, don’t forget to check out the Michael Fairman Channel’s recent interview with Cecelia Specht on all things Dr. Lia Whitmore below.
So, what do you think of the preemption schedule and how it may affect your viewing this week and next of Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless? Weigh-in via the comment section.
