The mention made me hopeful that we'll be seeing him again before long, but in the meantime I've been getting my Nicholas Rodriguez fix in with his web series Then We Got Help!, which I completely love. If you haven't watched the series yet, check it out. It's very funny.
The New York Daily News had a nice piece on Nicholas a few weeks ago. I always love hearing about behind the scenes stuff that shapes what we see onscreen, so I found this especially interesting:
Rodríguez, whose mom is white and whose father is Mexican-American, said that when he arrived at the auditions for “One Life to Live,” the show’s executives were looking to cast a white, all-American type, whom they were going to call Griffin. Dark-haired and brown-eyed, he didn’t know what he was doing among the dozens of blue-eyed blonds.
He got the part, though he was told that he was clearly not a Griffin.
“So they changed my character’s name to Nick Chávez,” he said. They even added a middle name, Roberto, while shooting the marriage proposal scene, because, Rodríguez explained, the actor playing Kyle suggested that drawing out his acceptance — “Nicholas Roberto Chávez, I would be honored to marry you” — sounded that much sweeter.
I really hope we'll be seeing Nicholas back as Nick on the show soon. I'd like to see some sort of follow up to what happened with his bashing. The last we heard, the court date for his attackers had been moved up and he was going to be testifying. It would also be very interesting to see a story revolving around being a very publicly out gay man teaching in a high school. There is plenty of story still to tell with Nick!
As for Nicholas, be sure and check out his video interview for the In Bed With series at Out.Com, too! You'll totally fall for him, if you haven't already.
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