Suzanne
Rogers has played Maggie Horton since 1973
While the spotlight on most daytime
soaps usually falls on the
young and the restless (pun intended), it’s always refreshing
when a long-running serial takes stock of the characters who have been around
a little longer. Case in point, Suzanne Rogers has played Maggie Horton on
NBC’s Days Of Our Lives since 1973 and this past year her character has seen
a resurgence of visibility first as the wiser voice to help the younger
characters but now there are subtle hints that Maggie could end up having a romance
with Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston). Of course, this entire month on the show
Maggie is standing by as matriarch Alice Horton (who had been played by
Frances Reid from the first Days episode until she passed away in February)
slowly slips away and past characters (and, in most cases, the actors who
played them) are showing up to pay their respects.
I had chatted with Suzanne a few weeks
back about her experience as Maggie but I ended up getting on the phone with
her again to ask about filming the scenes surrounding Alice’s death as well
what she knows about what the future holds for Maggie and Victor.
