{"id":8270,"date":"2025-11-14T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/yrs-matt-cohen-returns-to-soaps-im-here-to-deliver-the-drama\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:07:57","slug":"yrs-matt-cohen-returns-to-soaps-im-here-to-deliver-the-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/?p=8270","title":{"rendered":"Y&R\u2019s Matt Cohen Returns to Soaps: \u2018I\u2019m Here to Deliver the Drama\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matt Cohen\u2019s new Y&R role as Detective Burrow is anything but angelic \u2014 and the actor hints that the drama is only just beginning.<\/p>\n

In October, General Hospital alum Matt Cohen made his big debut on The Young and the Restless, where he plays the shady and mysterious Detective Burrow. So far, viewers have seen the cop take orders from Mitch\/Matt Clark, and his presence at the hospital raised red flags for Nick and Sharon as they looked after their then comatose son, Noah. Burrow is a piece of the puzzle that the exes don\u2019t understand yet.<\/p>\n

They are too distracted by the fact that their devious enemy, Matt Clark, is back. But there\u2019s a reason why a police detective carries out a club owner\u2019s bidding, and it\u2019s not for fun, and it doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s just for money. Cohen recently talked to\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am here to deliver the drama,\u201d Cohen says about Detective Burrow, who, unlike his GH character, Griffin Munro, has a darker, shadier vibe. \u201cSome would call him a good guy, and some would not call him a good guy. That is to be determined and left up to the audience. But he is into some stuff, and you\u2019re going to see it unfold. He is making choices that might not be the best choices for him or the people around him. But he\u2019s got a reason for making them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show is taking a slow-burn approach to peeling back the layers of his character. However, the\u00a0Entertainment Tonight<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Supernatural<\/em>\u00a0alum promises there\u2019s much more to come. \u201cStay tuned because it\u2019s going to get chaotic for Burrow. He\u2019s going to get all up in the mix of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detective Burrow isn\u2019t the sole reason why Cohen is happy to be back on soaps. \u201cIt\u2019s been a homecoming that I didn\u2019t know how bad I needed,\u201d he explains. And he has come to realize that soaps have made him a better actor. \u201cI wish I did soaps earlier in my career because you really have to take advantage of your opportunities to study your material, make your decision, commit to the decision with complete conviction, move on, and let go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohen appreciates the fact that this second daytime experience has been so welcoming from the cast to the crew, even though he had to play through the pain of a busted ankle on his very first day of taping. He injured it while playing with his son. \u201cYou know what it did for me? It made my character have a foundation. I kind of made the pain of my legs fit into my storyline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohen teases that the relationship between Burrow and Roger Howarth\u2019s Mitch\/Matt Clark is \u201ca complicated one.\u201d Playing the cop \u201cgives me the opportunity to be naughty in a world where all I want to do is be nice. When you get to play characters that challenge your true beliefs, you really get to examine humanity a little bit through the eyes of that character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howarth and Tamara Braun (Sienna) are just two of the Y&R cast members whom Cohen counted as friends before he ever stepped onto the Y&R set. \u201cRoger and myself, and Tamara have\u2026we\u2019ve done stuff together previously. There is a connection Roger and I have, a deep, deep connection, off set by just having conversations with one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cTamara is a very, very vulnerable, available person,\u201d Cohen continues. \u201cSo she right away can connect with anybody.\u201d Years ago, Cohen\u2019s two worlds collided when he introduced his Supernatural friend, Adam Fergus (SPN\u2019s Mick), to his friend and onscreen love interest, Hayley Erin (Claire, Y&R, Kiki, GH), once upon a time. \u201cNow they have children together. It\u2019s kind of one of the most amazing things I\u2019ve ever been part of in my life. I love those two to the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy very first real friend in Hollywood \u2014 Michael Graziadei (Daniel). We worked on Boogeyman 2 together, and then we produced our very first film together, and played best friends in that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, Cohen is enjoying working with new costars Joshua Morrow (Nick) and Sharon Case (Sharon). \u201cJosh and I have so many things in common. Being dads \u2013 aging dads. The first thing we talked about was, \u2018Oh, my ankle hurts.\u2019 \u2018My arm hurts.\u2019 It\u2019s nice to have a connection with a person seconds before you start a scene. Both Josh and Sharon \u2014 they\u2019re not here to judge what I\u2019m doing. They\u2019re here to try to uplift everything that I\u2019m doing, and therefore I want to uplift everything they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Away from Y&R, Cohen is taking a proactive approach with his career. He\u2019s really excited about a movie that he stars in and directs called\u00a0Exes<\/em>. The \u201cwild action comedy should be rolling out first quarter worldwide for everybody to see,\u201d Cohen excitedly reveals. The movie features a few of his\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I walked away from [soaps], it was to make sure I could do some other things\u2026direct and write and produce. And I did those things. Y&R came up at such a unique time in my life, and I was like, \u2018Is this somebody telling me what I always wanted to hear?\u2019 Soaps are the most welcoming in Hollywood, and at 40 years old, you want to feel like you\u2019re welcome every day when you go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warning! Spoilers for The Walking Dead Deluxe\u00a0<\/em>#124 and Rick Grimes’ comic character arc ahead!<\/p>\n

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Robert Kirkman has arrived at a turning point in his\u00a0Walking Dead<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>retrospective, when it finally becomes impossible to ignore the fact that Rick Grimes was the protagonist of the series, giving him “<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead Deluxe\u00a0<\/p>\n

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<\/em>#124 was written by Robert Kirkman, with art by Charlie Adlard. As the climactic\u00a0battle against Negan’s Saviors continues, Rick is sidelined with a potentially fatal injury.<\/p>\n

Or, at least, Kirkman wanted readers to think it could be fatal. Looking back now, he admits this “<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>had an ensemble cast, but no character was essential the way Rick Grimes was. He was the\u00a0first character\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>established a reputation for killing\u00a0off major characters early and often. For much of its publication, there was at least a “kayfabe” (to appropriate wrestling terminology) commitment to the idea that no one was safe, not even Rick. However, even Robert Kirkman acknowledges he teased Rick’s death too many times, without going through with it.<\/p>\n

In his\u00a0Deluxe\u00a0<\/em>notes on the issue, here’s what Kirkman wrote about Rick’s\u00a0Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>#124 injury:<\/p>\n

Man\u2026did I end TWO issues in a ROW with the notion that this arrow is going to kill Rick? Seriously? Shame on you, young Kirkman! Shame. I was really stretching the whole \u201canyone can die, even Rick\u201d talk with this one. That\u2019s a lot of plot armor for this guy.<\/p>\n

In other words, the more life-threatening injuries Rick Grimes sustained, only to come back from the brink in a way other\u00a0Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>characters almost never did, the more it became clear that he wasn’t going anywhere.<\/p>\n

Robert Kirkman did eventually, finally, kill off Rick Grimes\u00a0in\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rick’s survival in the\u00a0“<\/em>All Out War” storyline, despite\u00a0Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>#124’s attempts to tease his doom, was arguably the moment readers became certain, if they weren’t already, that he was the series’ protagonist. It was a “fool me twice” type of story beat, which\u00a0Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>creator Robert Kirkman just acknowledged over a decade later.<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead Deluxe\u00a0<\/em>#124\u00a0<\/strong>is available now from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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