Jason Brooks

May 9, 1996

Dark, dangerous, sinister, mysterious...are words often used to describe Jason Brooks' portrayal of his Peter Blake character in NBC-TV's "Days of Our Lives." It wasn't too surprising, then, that Soap Opera Digest hailed Brooks as "one of the sexiest men on television" and that he was voted 1995's "Outstanding Villain" at the 11th Annual Soap Opera Awards last year. Welcome!

Good evening, Jason!

Jason: Good evening everyone.

Q: Are you ready for some audience questions?

Jason: I am ready to rock and roll.

Happy birthday tomorrow, Jason!

Jason: Thank you very much. I will be thirty for the fourth time.

Q: Jason, you're such a great actor, but I don't like Peter that much. When will Jennifer find out about Peter's connections to Jude?

Jason: Hopefully, never, otherwise I will need to kill everyone on the show. And I don't want to have to do that especially where Alice Horton is concerned.

Q: Can you tell us what is going to happen with the lady in white? Or if anything has yet? I haven't been able to watch for the past couple of days!

Jason: First of all, I have not watched in the past couple months so you probably know more about what's going on then I. But I will tell you who the woman in white is. She is, Phil Donahue.

Q: What have been some of your most memorable moments doing theater?

Jason: My most memorable moment in the theater is also the most recent. That is in October through December of 1995. I played "Biff" in "Death of a Salesman". The great thing about this play is that it is by far the most brilliant play I have ever read. I was an honor to be involved in it.

Q: Jason, hello. How are you? Do you enjoy working with the "Days" cast?

Jason: I hate every single one of them, especially Alice Horton. Ha Ha Ha! Everybody is wonderful to work with it is a big happy family and it makes it fun to go and work there. Everybody has kind of a strange sense of humor which creates a good rapport and a great atmosphere to work in. Its fun because, my first day on the show was definitive of the type of people I work with. In my first five minutes, both Diedre Hall and Drake Hogestyn introduced themselves to me and welcomed me to the show.

Q: I heard you were involved with yoghurt? How did that happen and why acting now?

Jason: Its true. I was involved with yoghurt but then she dumped me for someone else and I moved on to sorbet. Business is what I studied in school and what I thought I would spend my life doing. But when I was in the yoghurt business although I was successful, I wasn't happy. I felt I needed something creative in my life and I had always wanted to be an actor. So I decided to commit myself to it no matter what.

Q: Who are some currently working actors and actresses you admire?

Jason: There are so many. Gary Oldman, of course Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert DeNiro. I think they are the standards. But there are many talented ones out there. Too many to name.

Q: What type of music do you like?

Jason: Good question. I have very eclectic tastes. I currently listen to quite a bit of "world music", music from Africa, Spain, Greece, Ireland and places like that. If I had to pick a favorite music. I would have to say something with a strong rhythm that you can dance to. But, I am into a lot of the current rock bands.

Q: Who or what inspires Jason Brooks?

Jason: Good material. A hot babe! Besides that, good material or good execution of material or both. And material can be defined by anything that captures someone's ideas and/or imagination and not just the written word.

Q: You seem to have quite a sense of humor, will Peter ever get to display it?

Jason: That has been the battle since I started the show. Every so often, I try to sneak some in via improvisation and sometimes they let it go and sometimes they don't. Peter is a bit darker then my demented sense of humor so often it is a hard match.

Q: How far in advance do you film the show?

Jason: For the first two years of the show whenever I would refer to the show as being filmed instead of taped which it is. I was ridiculed by everyone and savagely beaten. So now it is permanently embedded in my mind that we tape approximately three and a half weeks in advance.

Q: Patrick Muldoon, does a hell of an imitation of you (I met him a couple of times), tell me, do you keep up with Patrick even now that he's on Melrose Place?

Jason: First of all you have not heard a good imitation until you have heard the one I do of him. His imitation of me is strictly defensive. Patrick is a big star now and its hard to get him to contact his old "daytime" buddies. However, occasionally when I leave death threats he does call me back. And I see him once in a while around town.

Q: What would be an ideal project for you? Any people with whom you would love to work?

Jason: Another hard question! There are so many brilliant people out there many of whom have yet to be discovered. There are too many great people out there this is too tough a question to answer. But next time I come on-line, I will have an answer. The answer won't be to that question, but I will have an answer.

Q: Do you or any of the other cast play practical jokes on each other and if yes what was the funniest?

Jason: I not a practical joker and never have been, but I am a big joker. Most of the things we do on set is just basically giving each other a hard time...

Q: How is he going to celebrate his B-day?

Jason: I’m not allowed to get into profanities on-line, unfortunately I have to go out of town on business tomorrow. I have an appearance in Edmonton, Canada at the King's Way Garden Shopping Center.

Q: Does it bother you when the storyline degenerates?

Jason: It depends what you mean by degenerate. To begin with I am a degenerate so there is a lot of room to play.

Q: What are your hobbies, if you have time for any?

Jason: I like to smoke carpet lint, a bad habit I picked up in college for reasons I can't explain. Other then that I try to stay pretty active playing as many sports as possible. All at once. Plus, my wife and I are major movie buffs. So we rent a lot of movies when we can.

Q: Would you ever like to try acting on Broadway or off Broadway, if so what type of play?

Jason: I would love to. Theater is the medium that I absolutely love the best. The only criteria I have for any project that I do is money! Seriously, I like material that will allow me to express myself or challenge me as an actor and/or person.

Q: Where do you see yourself in ten years (Jason, not Peter)?

Jason: Where do I see myself in ten years? I guess in the mirror. Yuck, yuck, yuck. This is a question that I get asked a lot and don't really have an answer for. Hopefully, I will be fat, bald, broke and unemployed and this is not to offend anyone who already is.

Q: Marry me... I'm a fat free sorbet!

Jason: What flavor?

Q: Do you find it difficult to live a "normal" life? What ever that is?

Jason: It depends on what you define as a normal life. I can tell you that the only thing that has changed since I got on "Days" is that my wife and I now keep movie rentals more then a day.

Q: What other "shows" or commercials can we catch you on? Did you do any other acting before "Days"?

Jason: Yes, I was an actor for approximately three and one half years before "Days", most notably I was "Sophie" in "Sophie's Choice". Other then that, I did a lot of theater, some commercials, small films, primetime guest spots and a movie of the week. Currently, however, I have nothing running other then "Days".

Q: What was it like posing for Playgirl? Did you pose completely nude?

Jason: It was a lot of fun, unfortunately, they would not let me pose nude because when I took my pants down when I was changing they began laughing hysterically. So, I ended up just taking my shirt off. I guess its better in the long run because both my mother and grandmother have subscriptions.

Q: What was the last movie you saw?

Jason: We rented "The Right Stuff". Neither my wife nor I had seen it. It was great!

Q: Soap stars spend so much of their off time doing benefits for charity causes, how do you choose which ones and what are your favorite causes?

Jason: There are a lot of great charities so it is always hard to choose. The one I am most specifically involved in is diabetes research my grandfather died from it and my father has spent his entire medical career trying to find the cure for it.

Q: What has been your favorite “Days” storyline?

Jason: My favorite storyline on the show is the Vivian/ Ivan storyline. Anything they do cracks me up.

Q: What do you wear "under the sheets" during those love scenes?

Jason: A smile.

Q: Do you sometimes just start laughing when you are saying your lines?

Jason: Only if I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror but basically when I am saying my line that's the only time I am not laughing.

Thank you, Jason Brooks, for spending time with us tonight. Any closing comments?

Jason: Yes, thank you very much. It was a lot of fun "chatting" with everyone. Good night!