Remember when Nicole, played by the brilliant Arianne Zucker, left "Days of our Lives"? Many thought it would be a blow to EJ DiMera's storyline, but Dan Feuerriegel, the actor behind EJ, proved them wrong. He kept the drama alive, and in a shocking twist, ended up in a steamy (and very unexpected) relationship with Gabi. But how did it all happen, and what was it like filming that infamous hate sex scene? We got the inside scoop from Dan himself.
"I Didn't See it Coming"
Dan Feuerriegel, in an interview with Soap Opera Digest, confessed that he was completely surprised by the EJ-Gabi plot twist. "I didn't see it coming when Cherie Jimenez [who plays Gabi] came into the fray," he admitted. "Obviously, when we had scenes where we were yelling at each other, I kind of started to suspect, 'Maybe they're doing something here.
' But no, for me, it was a nice little out-of-the-blue fun thing to do."
A "Fun" Twist
It's clear that Dan enjoyed the surprising turn of events. "When it's a twist for me, that's just as entertaining as I feel it is for the audience," he explained. "So it was a fun, nice thing. They had a few layers in that as well, which is actually kind of cool."
The Layers of the EJ-Gabi Relationship
But what exactly were those layers? Dan revealed that the writers crafted a complex dynamic between EJ and Gabi.
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