ABC Soaps in Depth, November 25, 2003:

"When I spit in his face, I really spit...in...his...face!" admits Tamara Braun of her realistic fight scenes with Rick Hearst (Ric). "Slap schmap. If a man is coming at me like that, I'm going to knee him."

And that she did. When Braun suggested to the GH director that Carly kick Ric where it hurts, the reaction was, "Okay. Let's see what happens." So realistic was the contact -- and Hearst's reaction -- that setsiders assumed she got him where it counted! "She hit right here [indicating his upper thigh] and I went over," explains Hearst, who was merely acting out his character's pain. "What happends to a guy when you get kneed, you get a little angry so I kicked a chair. Tamara thought, 'I got him!' and started laughing."

Braun had good reason to make their "connection" as realistic as possible. "That same day, I had ring marks on my arm," she says with a smile. "I looked like a battered wife for days and days because of my friend Rick over there."




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