As many Days of Our Lives fans know, it’s certainly not easy living in this fictional town of Salem and it’s certainly not easy living in it when you’ve got multiple personalities as well.
Days of Our Lives Spoilers: All About The new Southern Belle In Town, Faith
Luckily, actress Raven Bowens, who is best known for her role as Chanel on the hit Peacock soap, opened up about playing Faith within the realm of the character that she’s already playing.
Speaking to Soap Opera Digest in a new interview, Chanel said that when she first heard about this new role, she approached playing the character in a very traditional soap opera way.
She put it this way, “I wanted Faith to not feel current. I wanted her to feel like she was from before. So I tried to give her a Southern accent and make her into a Southern belle.”
Luckily, Raven realized pretty quickly that her interpretation of Faith definitely aligned with the writing team’s vision for the character.
She said, “I didn’t tell anyone I was going to do [the accent], but no one said anything when I did. I think I kind of surprised everyone when I first popped out with it. I remember Rob [Scott Wilson, Alex] saying, ‘Oh, that was really cool.’ So people were not expecting it. I don’t even know if I was expecting it! But it came out and it flowed.”
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Not only that, but Raven also knew that there had to be a very specific look for her character.
“I wanted to dress her a little bit more flowy or flowery or silky, just very soft. I wanted to make it feel like she was pulled from another time.”
Raven also said that Richard from DOOL’s wardrobe department “bought these really gorgeous sundresses, and that was also a bit of what inspired me to make Faith the way that I wanted her to be.”
“When I would go upstairs and we would choose wardrobe, we would have conversations about it. I said that I didn’t want to dress Faith like Chanel, and Richard immediately knew what I meant.”
“And then the options that he was bringing in, because his vision was old school soap and my vision was Southern belle, we kind of blended those two. We created her look.”
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