How would you rate Michelle Stafford as Phyllis?
- 5 - Excellent (41%, 60 Votes)
- 1 - Terrible (23%, 33 Votes)
- 4 - Pretty good (16%, 23 Votes)
- 3 - Eh... (14%, 21 Votes)
- 2 - Not good (6%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 146
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Poll: How would you rate Michelle Stafford as Phyllis?
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I voted “Pretty good” . I would give Gina Tognoni excellent because her Phyllis was more complex I think, but that’s maybe because I could more identify with Gina’s version. Michelle’s Phyllis is fun, foxy , sexy, unpredictable and I DO enjoy that alot, she makes me smile, she does crazy things and all this flirting and all, it’s just entertaining! She originated that character, she is a great actor,she does have a speciffic way to portray the character and I do enjoy watching her no doubt. (Totally new experience for me ) 🙂 But yeah… sometimes it’s like she/they… Read more »
She is a wonderful actor but she is being to over used
I was expecting to dislike her strongly. I was SO, so wrong . She is fantastic and I look forward to her scenes every day. She puts so much nuance into everything she does – sipping a drink, entering a room, making little faces. Its clear that she absolutely loves being Phyllis and puts her all in to the role
I love Michelle back as Phyllis so I gave her performance a 5. I love that she has great comedic timing, is seductive, and fierce. I liked Gina but she really only had the fierceness of Phyllis not really the overall that Michelle created. I couldn’t really imagine Gina doing the stuff Michelle is doing now. Plus, Michelle just has the chemistry with everyone, whether it is her old lovers or her rivals especially Sharon. I didn’t really see that with Gina. I agree with Toni that we need a better story for Phyllis though.
Michelle Stafford is a really good actress. I have seen her in other roles, portraying similar characters, seductive-sometimes too girly. But excellent. Her performance in her first run as Phyllis was an unqualified excellent! Michele’s Phyllis has always been self-conscious and insecure, which is why she did those many crazy things. Just trying to be “someone.” She was a good actress in interesting storylines. Zoperxplex is right that Gina’s Phyllis was more of a professional and confident. Now then – I know Michele just returned to the role, but she hasn’t had opportunity to get into an interesting storyline. Michele’s… Read more »
When I started watching “The Young and the Restless” was right at the moment when Gina Tognoni was beginning to assume the role of Phyllis consequently my perspective may be regarded by some as skewed in favor of that actress. On the other hand that can be considered an advantage because, unlike veteran viewers who are automatically predisposed to support Michelle Stafford solely based on the fact that she originated the role and played it for a long time, I can provide a more balanced assessment. I gave Ms. Stafford a 3, not bad, but not great. Her interpretation of… Read more »
Wow, Zoperxplex, truth be told you’ll take Phyllis in any form! I’ve read your posts! Like your answer. A 3. How reasonable, not fanitical in either direction. As for me, I can well imagine you racing to stereotype me onto your nostalga list(!), but au contraire… I cast out the old to welcome the new in liking Gina better too. But who cares as to my personal preference. A better question would be what possessed Y&R to ever hire Gina for the role of that wacky overbearing cartoon sticking her big animated head in everyone’s business in the first place?… Read more »
Gary I like the way you explain how you see Gina T. and Michelle S. and I agree with what you said. I was thinking the other day that I wish Michelle S. was a different character on Y&R. I like her, I enjoyed her on GH, but I myself had gotten used to Gina T. as Phyllis.
I totally agree with your statement that it is hard to visualize this woman with the same woman whose expressed shock and outrage when she learned that the man who she thought was her husband was actually a total stranger (and a sinister one at that). There just does not seem to be present any inkling of bitterness, cynicism, questioning of one’s self worth and sense of a damaged ego that you would think to be the manifestation of having to experience such a traumatic event.
I see Michele’s Phyllis – from the beginning – as totally lacking self-worth. She. has always tried to be something she isn’t, getting or taking something she never had and wants, never really sensing herself as an equal to the Newmans. When she was married to Jack, she had the Abbott status, still not a Newman. I think she really loved Nick, and questioned herself to be sure she was with him because she loved him and not because she just wanted “in” to the Newman orbit. All the showy confidence is just a show, a put on, which makes… Read more »
Very entertaining, she wears confidence beautifully!
Cartoonishly played.
Yes! The Road Runner. Never say die.
Overbearing barracuda
So much worse than the new Jill…
Why did Brenda Dickson leave in the first place? Did she find work on another show?
I don’t think i should go there. Look this up on the internet to get an ear-full!
By the way, so often as I capitalize my I it still comes out the little one. And the letter is very small and hard to detect until a week later when I might proof read my comment .
O.K, I’ll spill as you are forcing my hand and pinning me to the wall: My understanding is, back story there were problems with BD on the set. Supposedly she had missed some tapings, and now claiming she was deathly ill with “women problems” (what are those?) she had to go to the doctor, but Y&R said, “You’re fine. Show up for taping or your’re off the show and we will replace you.” She didn’t show and they fired her! In true Jill like fashion, Brenda, exiled from any show business work forever more, would blame the Bell family and… Read more »
Too bad Ms. Dickson is no longer in show business. She could have been the one link that tied together the original focus of the show, the Foster and the Brooks families and what life in small town America was like with a particular emphasis on the medical and legal professions, with what has been driving this show as well as most of what constitutes contemporary daytime drama which is a microscopic view into the loves and opulent lives of the upper 1%.
Yes, Jill’s main early goal in life was to become one of the beautiful people.
I prefer the lower case I as it stands alone. It is easier to see and is cuter.