Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden is a German film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in Colossus: The Forbin Project, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1941
CityBredenbek, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?
There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.
There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.
I think a lot of marriages occur because there's peer pressure. There's this whole romantic notion that we've created about weddings.
I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.
I go a lot of places in America on public appearances, and I ask people about, what do you do. Many have two and three jobs in order to make a living.
I agree that women need to be part of the work force, of course. They have enormous stuff to contribute, but don't neglect the raising of children.
Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.
The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.