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The Bold and the Beautiful once again proved that the BOLD in their official title is just that! And who else would get mixed up in all this trouble, but Brooke Forrester. And this time it’s a doozy.  Here we go: Brooke and her stepson, Thomas, who have had this very “taboo” chemistry playing out on air, head to Australia together for work when suddenly their plane crashed.  Now the duo washed up at sea is dehydrated and starving in a life or death situation, while their loved ones race to find them.

Next, Brooke comes across some polka-dotted berries and eats one, and then encourages Thomas to eat one, too.  Well, after downing a bunch of these delicious and seductive berries the two go on soap’s first fantastical acid trip, or ecstasy trip… take your pick.  Whatever the case, B&B created via special CGI effects an incredible hallucinogenic journey for the duo to play in.  And in the end the question remains, did Thomas and Brooke have sex, or not?

On-Air On-Soaps tries to get to the bottom of this, in this very special and revealing interview with Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) and Adam Gregory (Thomas).  After reading this, let us know what you think happened during their berry-induced island adventure.   Here’s our chat with the gorgeous Katherine, and the handsome Adam.

MICHAEL:

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Wow Katherine!  Brad Bell (executive producer and head writer) is certainly finding ways to get Brooke in steamy situations with the younger men of B&B!  Now there is this drug-induced possible sex romp with her stepson, Thomas.  But before that there was the infamous “Party Boink” with Oliver, when Brooke mistook him for Ridge.  During our interview about that storyline, you had mentioned you thought it would have been better if Brooke were perhaps in an altered state in that situation.  Now with this new story, she was!  Do you think that had any bearing on how this new story angle played out?

KATHERINE:

I don’t know at all, but I do remember talking to Brad Bell going, “Wouldn’t it be better if Brooke was a little drunk or tipsy?” And then he said, “No. That wouldn’t be good, because then Brooke would be doing two things wrong.” (Laughs)  She would be with Oliver and also drunk.  So he did not want to do that.  But when this story came about, maybe he liked where it was going, or that original suggestion.

ADAM:

When Brooke ate these berries, it was not like she intentionally took drugs or drank. When I came on the show I was doing some research, because I did not know what role I had yet.  So I am watching the show frantically trying to figure where I would even fit into this place.  And that was happening when I first got here, between Oliver and Brooke.  So I do know the back-story of that.  She was with a younger man, accidently.

MICHAEL:

How did the two of you find out that Brooke and Thomas were going to ingest some fictional hallucinogenic berries that will end up causing long-term controversy?

ADAM:

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I got a text from Ed Scott, our producer, going, “Heads up!  This might be happening.” And I remember having the talk with Brad, and he explained everything.  Then Cindy Popp, who directed us in the episodes, pulled me in her office and said, “Ok.  So here is what is happening.” And it got toned down actually.  I think that worked out better with everything being more of a mystery, and we really don’t even know what happened.

MICHAEL:

Watching the sequences play out on-air, I had to watch it back a couple of times. I’m trying to figure out the symbolism: does the finger touching and the flowers adorning your bodies, represent sex between the two?

KATHERINE:

Well, we are still trying to figure it out, and there were a lot of changes being made through the process.  Brad kept changing different things and in different ways – to the point where we still don’t know what is happening.  It is a very secretive thing!

ADAM:

We are playing that we don’t even know if we had sex, because the characters did blackout.  And Katherine, you are always playing Brooke at this point as, “I don’t know if I did something wrong!”

KATHERINE:

Yes, but we tried to do it childlike and playful during the hallucination scenes. We knew there was some connection going on, but it was the “Berry Connection.”  (All that psychedelic energy coming at us, and what have you.)  It is more about what happened when we blacked out.  Again, Thomas and Brooke are thinking something more happened, but it could have just been a drugged-out black out!

ADAM:

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And Brooke just wants to tell Ridge, because they have this pact in their marriage to be completely honest with one another.  So she feels she has no choice but to tell him, but Thomas is not letting her!

MICHAEL:

Adam, I just wanted to give you some kudos.  I thought you did a really nice job in the scenes where Thomas and Brooke address and see their entire extended families for the first time, and attempt to recount what happened to them from the plane crash to landing on the deserted island.  Of course, omitting their ecstasy-trip via the berries! (Laughs)

KATHERINE:

Adam had been wonderful to work with and has been really good lately.  Aren’t you a bit of a method actor, like with your leg being injured from the plane crash and the island?

ADAM:

I noticed it looked fake when I walked in the scenes, so I wanted someone to punch me!

KATHERINE:

He really gets into the moment, and as a sort of newcomer, we all can be like, “Is he going to be able to pull this off?”  (Laughs)  And he did.  You did a great job!  And there was a point where I remember thinking, “Oh my gosh. He is doing so great.  I have got to up my game now!” (Laughs)  I did not want him to show me up. (Laughs)

MICHAEL:

Adam, is it still hard being the newbie in a cast with such long-standing cast members?  Or, do you feel you have settled in more at this point?

ADAM:

As far as the cast, not at all. Everyone here is so nice, and it has been a very nice fit for me.  As far as being in the soap world, that is very different.  When you work as a cast you are working to build your show.  But when you are building your show in the soap world, there is also that built-in competition with Y&R, DAYS, and GH.  So, I look at other guys my age from other shows and see how they are doing it.

MICHAEL:

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And, are you checking in to see if you have had more shirtless scenes than those dudes?

ADAM:

(Laughs) I guess I might have to, to stay one step ahead of my competition.

KATHERINE:

It comes down to being a good person. We all really respect each other here.  We work really hard and we have each other’s backs.  I think our show is a little more special than the other shows because of that, from the stories I have heard.  But that helps, and then you can sort of branch out and build however you want to portray yourself out there to the world.

MICHAEL:

Tell us about the CGI special effects, which were outstanding.  How did you act with them or around them?  I am assuming you were in front of a Green Screen on the set at B&B?

KATHERINE:

They explained exactly what we had to see, such as: when we walked into this huge room and saw the cave and how it opened up into a huge waterfall.  They said, “Look. It goes way up into the sky.”  So we had to kind of look and go, “Oh,” and they explained what the energy between us would look like, and how we would need to play that.  They said here is where the poppies will grow out of the wall and so we would go, “Ooh-wee,” and giggle and carry on.

ADAM:

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I remember getting into the whole CGI thing, and the first thing we had to do was look at the rainbow.  They go, “You see the rainbow?”  And I go, “Alright.  Let me get into this.  I have got to wrap my head around this.” (Laughs)

MICHAEL:

Did the two of you laugh a lot, though?  I can only imagine!  I know you had to play giddy and drugged, anyway.   But, there had to be a moment where the two of you were like, “What are we doing?”

KATHERINE:

We were so tired and punch-drunk by the end of the day from smiling so much.  My smile muscles in my face and my stomach muscles were so worn out.  When I went home I thought, “Oh my God, I hurt all over.”  And this was just from laughing.  Viewers saw just bit of it on-air, but we had to laugh and giggle, and do that whole thing all day long.

ADAM:

It was exhausting!  And after a certain point, Kelly is Miss Giggles.  You don’t even have to get her going, she just laughs. (Laughs)

MICHAEL:

OK.  Let’s get to this.  Do you admit there is a ton of sexual chemistry going on between Thomas and Brooke?

KATHERINE:

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I think everyone is out of their minds! (Laughs)  But Brooke loves him as her stepson, who she raised.  Of course, there is a natural bond there.  What are you looking at, Adam? (Laughs)

MICHAEL:

Katherine, let’s take this one step further.  Could you ever see the ultimate soap opera portrayal, that Brooke would leave Ridge for his son, Thomas?

KATHERINE:

No.  Are you serious?  I think the age difference is huge.

MICHAEL:

You never know on B&B, these days! They do a great job at pushing the envelope.

ADAM:

Well there is an older woman/younger man coupling on this show with Jackie and Owen, and there is even a bigger age difference between Owen and Thomas.  I am much younger, and I think sometimes my age is confusing on the show.  I don’t even know sometimes what age Thomas is supposed to be.  But I do know that he is at least over 21. I am only 23 in real life, so I try to keep him around my own age.  I feel that leaves a lot of room for Brad to play with, like bringing Thomas’s friends from college on to the show for instance, because right now, Thomas has no friends! (Laughs)

MICHAEL:

Adam, what does Thomas feel towards Brooke?

ADAM:

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I have always played it that Thomas has this deep appreciation for Brooke and everything she had done for Thomas with the Taboo line, and getting him started at Forrester Creations.  He was kind of a nobody and a schmuck in the company for a while, and no one took him seriously until he started this whole campaign.  And if it wasn’t for Brooke jumping on the bandwagon with him, nothing would have happened.  Thomas would not have been this overnight sensation with Forrester Creations, and on his way to the CEO chair without Brooke.

MICHAEL:

Thomas has been manipulating Brooke, too!

ADAM:

That is true… I am that good.

KATHERINE:

What?  I did not know this.

ADAM:

Yes! In my character’s eye, I am being very ambitious and taking advantage of your sweetness. And she is my step-mom, and so that is my business ambition coming out, and it is bad!

MICHAEL:

Can you see Thomas showing a softer or more vulnerable side to him after this whole plane crash incident?  Perhaps he has taken a harder look at his life and the direction he had taken it.

ADAM:

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Absolutely not!  Thomas is going to go through a dash of depression, but other than that, I am making him really stone cold.

MICHAEL:

I thought it was very clever that Brooke and Thomas were heading to Australia when the plane went down, and that there could be some really fun berries on some neighboring island down under.

KATHERINE:

Isn’t that hysterical?  They were going to Australia to launch a new line for women, and then the plane went down!

MICHAEL:

In my speculating, I am worried that Brooke will become pregnant…again!   And that will finally be the plot point that will reveal that during their drug-induced berry party, Brooke and Adam did indeed have sex.

ADAM:

Every time I speak over the boom, (I try not to anymore) I end up speculating on storyline, that is how Dayzee and I happened.  During the Christmas episode, Kristolyn Lloyd (Dayzee) and I were sitting on set, and we were talking to Texas Battle (Marcus).  He was telling us that he was sure that Dayzee was for him in his new storyline, and I said, “I am telling you, she is for Thomas.”  And look what happened!

KATHERINE:

I know!  It is true that in between scenes we all talk while the booms are open.  And you are talking about possible story, and going, “Ooh, wouldn’t this be fun,” and then you see it in the script!

ADAM:

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Or, maybe that is what they think the actors are expecting!  So they say, “Let’s go the opposite way.”  And then they throw you for a loop.

MICHAEL:

Coming up, what can we look forward to coming up with Thomas and Brooke in the next month… dealing with the aftermath from the crash with their loved ones, families, and each other?

KATHERINE:

It’s more of them questioning for a while, and they are just going crazy thinking about if something happened between the two characters.  And, we are addressing and playing out all the emotions that come with that.