Jordana Brewster Calls Soap Operas ‘Great Playgrounds’ for Actors

Jordana Brewster thinks soap operas are great “playgrounds” for actors to learn the technical skills of the craft.

Speaking with ComingSoon.net in an interview published on October 31, Brewster, 44, opened up about her time working on various television soap operas, and shared that working on soaps teaches actors lots of “technical stuff” in a relatively low-stakes environment.

“Well, you’re learning, you have like one day to prepare like eight pages of dialogue,” she told the outlet. “So you have to learn the dialogue and adhere to it. Then you have to get used to cameras and hitting your mark. So it teaches you a lot of the technical stuff. Also, the stakes are low because it airs, and then it’s gone forever. So it’s really a great playground for actors.”

Brewster, for her part, made her acting debut on an episode of All My Children in 1995 and, later that same year, was cast as Nikki Munson on As the World Turns, where she starred for six years. She is currently starring in the psychological thriller Cellar Door as Sera, a character who struggles with infertility, something she can relate to in her personal life.

“It’s always my job to portray my character’s experience authentically,” Brewster exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing the psychological thriller. “I struggled to have my sons and experienced Sera’s heartache firsthand. I did not want to sugar coat her experience.”

Brewster and her ex-husband, film producer Andrew Form, welcomed sons Julian and Rowan via surrogacy in 2013 and 2016, respectively. She was determined to accurately portray the “huge toll” infertility can cause on couples.

“I became single minded and obsessive about fertility,” she recalled of her own experience. “And Sera goes down the same road.”

She previously spoke about her journey with surrogacy with Yahoo in 2015. “I didn’t really have a choice about being open, since it was obvious I wasn’t pregnant. For me it wasn’t a choice; I needed to use a surrogate. But I didn’t feel judged. It’s more like I felt awkward,” she said at the time. “Sometimes I feel a little left out when other moms talk about what their birth experience was like, and I feel the loss of not having carried or having been able to carry.”

Brewster and Form, 52, wed in 2007 and filed for divorce in 2020. Last month, Form was court ordered to pay his ex-wife $32,500 per month in modified child support, according to court documents filed in California and obtained by Us. He was also required to make a one time payment to Brewster of $100,000 within 10 days of the filing.

Brewster is now married to businessman Mason Morfit. Form has since remarried and welcomed his first baby with wife Alexandra Daddario in October.