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‘B&B’: Laneya Grace Dishes on Electra, RJ, Will Love Triangle and Dylan Drama
What To Know
- Laneya Grace discusses with Swooon the ongoing love complications between her character, Electra, and RJ, Will, and Dylan on The Bold and the Beautiful.
- The actress opens up about being “torn” between RJ and Will.
- She also addresses the “conflict” with Dylan, who’s caused drama for Electra and Will.
The Bold and the Beautiful has been telling love quadrangle stories since the show’s inception, with the characters of Brooke, Ridge, Caroline, and Thorne.
Today, that tradition continues with RJ Forrester (Brayan Nicoletti), Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace), Will Spencer (Crew Morrow), and Dylan (Sydney Bullock). However, thanks in part to her Aunt Ivy Forrester (Ashleigh Brewer), who knows a thing or two about being burned by Spencer men, Electra is spending more time with RJ and less with Will.
But is that a bad thing? Who’s the OTP (One True Pairing) for Electra? Swooon caught up with Grace to chat with her about Will vs. RJ when the show was launching BBTV, a subscription-based app that enables users to watch more than 9000 (!) B&B episodes and exclusive behind-the-scenes content!
“The audience is very, very torn,” Grace told Swooon as to whether viewers are leaning more towards an Electra/RJ romance or an Electra/Will reconciliation. “I have seen lots of support for Electra and Will, and also for Electra and RJ.”
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RJ has caught the eye of many eligible ladies at Forrester Creations, but the handsome, athletic (right, Ivy?), rich, aspiring designer only has eyes for Electra. He’s been giving her his full attention. RJ does seem kind of perfect so far, no?
“He does,” Grace said with a smile. However, the actress was quick to point out that Will and Electra have lots of chemistry, too.
“Will and Electra have a history,” the actress said. “They’d been dating for about a year by the time they broke up.”
Grace noted that she’s looking forward to seeing things unfold as Electra discovers what her true feelings are and which man she’d love to be with in the long run. “Even as an actor on the show, I don’t know where it’s going to go,” she shared. “So, it’s always super interesting to see Electra being more drawn to RJ in a day, and [then] more drawn to Will in a day, and see where she’s at.”
The big conflict between Will and Electra was his support of Dylan, who came to live in Will’s beach house after Will and Electra discovered that Dylan was homeless. While Electra hasn’t minced words with her disdain for Dylan, she is not unsympathetic to her plight.
“Electra was very much acting out of anger and out of hurt in that moment,” Grace said when Electra had harsh words with Dylan. “She wishes no ill will towards Dylan. In fact, she loves her and wants her to be her friend, but I think she was acting very protective with her relationship with Will.”
Grace added, “There’s always a reason that the character does what she’s doing. The writers are really good about justifying Electra’s actions and her feelings.”
While Electra cares about Dylan, Grace told Swooon she had a great time doing a social media sketch in which she got to chastise Bullock for not subscribing to the BBTV app! “Oh, I had so much fun doing that,” shared Grace, who said she definitely got to tap into her inner “Miranda Priestly” in the video.
“There could be a blooper reel just from that day,” Grace said. “It was really interesting. I got to punch it all the way up to 12 out of 10. It was so much fun to be able to go so big.”
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