ESPRIT LIBRE // Press Archive

Spotlight on Forbes March (Soap Opera Weekly 5/1/07)
Though life's a hash for One Life to Live's Nash, it's pretty much perfect (Don't say that out loud!) for portrayer Forbes March.
By Gabrielle Winkel

How is life with Forbes these days?
It's frighteningly fantastic. I'm a real skeptic, so I'm generally comfortable when things are off and everybody around me hates me. When things are good and people are friendly and work is going well, I become very suspicious that somebody's pulling the hood over my eyes. Things are really great.

And the two children?
The two children are fantastic. I'm a little upset because they're in Italy right now. I'm like a bachelor without the perks.

Awwww.
Oh, yeah, that's right. I just decided that yes, I'm going to be a good daddy. I'm going to be a come-running-home-from-work-and-spend-time-with-my-kids daddy. I'm not going to be a go-to-the-bar-with-my-friends daddy. I'm going to be a find-dads-who-have-kids daddy and be friends with them. And their kids will be friends with my kids. And then they'll leave town.

Well, it's just for a short period of time.
Two weeks. I'm going to the bar (laughs).

You can go to the gym.
You've got to be kidding me (laughs).

Since your wife is Italian and you speak Italian, will your daughter speak Italian?
My daughter goes to bilingual school. She goes to an Italian school. That's one of the big plusses of living in New York. There's a big Italian community -- Italian schools, Italian friends. Marina (his 7-year-old daughter) is in Italy right now and I just talked to her, and for the first time she actually talked to me in Italian. She usually won't. That's quite common when you teach kids another language. They'll listen, but then they always respond in their first language. I don't know why.

Are you going to go to Italy?
I'm going for a week and I'm going to take my daughter to Paris for one day. I tried to think of the most dramatic thing I could possibly come up with to do during the week. In Italy, so many times you're there for a week and just hanging out with the family. It's a long way to fly to have six family dinners. I remember these old mahogany-paneled trains that go to Paris from Milan. It departs at 7:30 at night. So, if you get on the train at the last minute with the duffel bag on your shoulder, you're taking the train into the setting sun of Milan. And you wake up in the morning and you're in Paris.

That's great.
So, we're going to spend the day in Paris. She's got this fixation with the Mona Lisa, and I have this idea that I really want to have a cafe au lait underneath the Eiffel Tower and come home in the evening.

That's very glam.
Isn't it? I think it's going to be great!