In the late sixties, on the now-defunct show The Secret Storm and on One Life to Live, a twin took over the role of their twin. Since we at love trivia, we dug around a bit and discovered a few other times this has happened. ![]() While such a switch is rare, it has happened a few times in soap history. ![]() Bruce played the role from July the 21st, 1999 until January the 10th, 2003 while his brother, who had minimal acting experience and was studying medicine at the time, took over the role from April the 11th, 2003 until March the 19th, 2004. Although rumors of this were rampant even before the switch was publicly announced, most people assumed it was either a joke or a stunt. While some of the more famous of these anecdotes have been unfortunately macabre, some have been more amusing.Īvoiding the normal confusion arising from recasts, the show benefited by having the role of Reese Durkee played by two different actors, Bruce Michael and Seth Hall, who just happened to be identical twins. Passions has long been known not simply for being a show about some rather peculiar people getting up to outlandish things, but also as a show which seems haunted by odd coincidences and details.
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