It took me years to separate Ridge from Ronn. I'd bring Ridge home and internally tear myself apart because of the emotional burden. And I said to myself, 'I have to stop doing this because I feel like it's having a bad effect on me.' Of course, with this character, I learned how to open a bottle of champagne and make a real bow tie, instead of using the clip-on one. I also learned something more about fashion, which, however, doesn't interest me at all.
Speaking today at the Filming Sardegna Festival is Ronn Moss, born in 1952, better known as Ridge Forrester, one of the main protagonists of the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" from 1987 to 2012, or approximately 25 years and 6,407 episodes. An exaggerated number that places him among the most present actors in the history of TV series.
Today Moss, dressed in a hippie outfit, sporting a white Korean shirt adorned with chains and earrings, is at Filming, together with his wife Devin Devasquez, to present his directorial debut, "Tex McKenzie," an esoteric and spiritual western that could become a series.
Was it difficult not being Ridge after 25 years? "No, it wasn't that difficult because I don't take myself that seriously. I'm glad people watched the show all those years, and I love that they tell me that. And taking pictures with people and all that—there are certainly worse things in the world than having to do that. And I think it's an opportunity for me to have left the screen today after touching people's hearts everywhere."
The soap opera aired in over 100 countries, and approximately 26 million daily viewers worldwide followed its character, a symbol of authentic masculinity for many women, complete with a chunky jawline and a super-defined physique. In 2012, however, something broke, and Moss quit and didn't renew his contract with the soap . His final episode aired on August 14th of that year. For many fans, it was a day of mourning. "At a certain point, I decided, 'Okay, that's enough.' Actually, there were a couple of things that made me decide," Moss emphasizes. , which caused me to lose my short-term memory. I couldn't remember, and that's a big problem when you have to memorize so much dialogue."
