Sharon Case, who portrays Sharon in The Young and the Restless, shared her thoughts on the return of antagonist Matt Clark. For those unfamiliar, Clark originally died after removing his own breathing tube, marking his exit from the show in November 2001. Surprisingly, he has now returned from the dead under the alias Mitch Bacall. Sharon has since discovered Bacall’s true identity and knows he’s willing to go to great lengths to create chaos in their lives.
Sharon Case on how Sharon will respond to Matt’s agenda on The Young and the Restless
In a conversation with Soap Opera Digest, Case shared her take on Matt Clark returning from the dead to create chaos in her character’s lives.
She said, “Just when you think, ‘Oh, okay, we know Matt Clark, he’s a bad guy, he’s probably gonna just do X, Y or Z bad thing, it turns in a way that you wouldn’t think. And then just when you think you’ve gotten ahold of that and that you get the storyline, it twists again. Coming back from the dead is a classic soap story.”
Teasing that the audience might not be able to guess what’s next in the story, she added, “But what is not necessarily common is the different twists that we have over and over again. I think the audience won’t be able to guess who comes into the story next and how it turns.” Case further clarified that though Clark might think that her character is easy to torment, she’s going to respond to him befittingly this time. “I’m gonna give him hell!” she said.
Moreover, Case also expressed her excitement for the current storyline, involving her past villain, Clark. She stated, “‘It’s not over! We keep playing this kind of stuff, because now Matt Clark’s come back!’ I think of it in terms of this being classic soap opera storytelling, you know? There’s always villains coming back from the dead! Nobody’s ever really dead.”
“That’s just one of the great things, the silliness or greatness or whatever you want to call it, about soaps: People always come back! And I’m glad that I have another soapy, fun story to tell,” Case went on to explain.
