Eric Braeden, who plays Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless, has been on the show over 4 decades, and he’s revealing the “dumbest” decision they ever made.
If you don’t know, in 2012 as a plot point on the show, a character on the series, Sharon Newman, drunkenly set fire to the Newman family ranch.
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Eric told TV Insider of that decision, “It was an outrage and one of the dumbest decisions ever.”
They rebuilt the set in 2024, and Eric shared, “To be frank with you, when they asked me to take a look at it, I thought, ‘Oh, well.’ And then I sat there and I was a little overwhelmed. I really was touched because the old set meant so much to the Nikki/Victor relationship. And they did a wonderful job. I was just flooded with emotions because it’s stepping back into a milieu that we’ve almost forgotten about. It touched me. It really did.”
About being on the series for 44 years in such an iconic role, he added, “It means everything to me; I’d be a phony if I said that it doesn’t mean anything. To get affirmation of what one has done is a wonderful feeling.”
About if he’ll retire, he said, “I will not, I don’t want to. I feel very well. I really do. The [bladder] cancer is under control and I will have another cystoscopy in about a month, and if that is negative, then I’ll be free for a while. It’s never gone completely. You have to always watch, but signs are very good. The new knee is fully repaired. I do squats again and power cleans again and all that.”
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