Soap Opera Uncensored —Issue19

of course. As an actor, you want that kind of recognition from your peers. Unfortunately, for me, I’m always up against our very best actors. So it’s a difficult place for me to be in. I don’t have the status of a Peter Bergman [Jack], Kristoff St. John [Neil], or Christian LeBlanc [Michael], but I really don’t think about it. I just do my job and if it comes, it comes. I’d love to win one before the career is over, but I’m also not losing sleep over it. Melody’s Emmy-less career is much more tragic because she’s a soap icon. The fact that she hasn’t won an Emmy is ridiculous. I’m just a knucklehead trying to figure out what I’m doing.

  TVG: Are you submitting yourself this year, and if so, which category?

  JM: I’ve always been a leading man, but you know someone I respect told me I wouldn’t be nominated against Peter, Eric Braeden [Victor] or Christian in Lead. So I may submit myself into supporting, to see if that changes anything. It’s hard to be nominated in the lead category when you’re as young as I am, or not as good as the top-tier talent dudes on Y&R. I’m as competitive as the next dude, though.

  TVG: Any plans to revive your boy band, 3Deep with former co-star Eddie Cibrian (ex-Matt)?

  JM: [laughs] Oh, God no! Man, I’m old, dude! I’ve got a wife and kids now. At some point, you can’t tour anymore — and that’s the only way you can sell a CD. It was a nice two-year run — we had more fun than should be legally allowed. That was a time I always look back on and hysterically laugh about.

  TVG: So you’re saying I should take down my 3Deep poster from my bedroom wall!

  JM: No way, Nelson! I demand that you leave that poster up so you can keep the dream alive [laughs]!

  TVG: You and your wife Tobe are expecting your third baby boy later this year [the couple have two sons, Cooper, 5, and Crew, 2.] Are you disappointed it wasn’t a girl?

  JM: We were trying for a girl, for sure, but we’re destined to have a lot of penises running around my house! What can I say? I’m a hundred percent man!

  TVG: You are the dude, indeed.

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