Dylan Bruce News

Dylan Bruce, who has portrated Chris Hughes on As the World Turns since last November, has been taken off contract.

The character is currently in the middle of a love triangle with Alison and Aaron, which has been one of the show's frontburner stories of late. There's no word yet on how Bruce's change in status will impact the story.

The actor will continue to appear on As the World Turns on a recurring basis. And you can always drool over him shirtless on our site!

On his official As the World Turns bio, Dylan Bruce lists a few of his favorite things. They are:

Favorite holiday: Christmas
Favorite season: Spring
Favorite vacation spot: Whistler Mountain, Canada.
Favorite citites: Vancouver/Seattle/San Diego
Favorite color: Blue.
Favorite comedian: Dave Chappelle
Favorite band/artist: Telefon Tel Aviv

Here's one of our favorite things: Dylan Bruce shirtless!

We'd like to wish Dylan Bruce a very happy birthday.

The As the World Turns star turns 28 today - and he looks as handsome as ever, doesn't he?

Dylan Bruce didn't try out initially for Chris Hughes on As the World Turns.

What role did he go for? That's just one of many topics covered in the following Soap Opera Digest interview with the actor:

Soap Opera Digest: How did you get the job?
Dylan Bruce: I believe the sides were for "Nate." I auditioned on tape with my manager and then he mailed the tape to Mary Clay [Boland, casting director]. I've tested for As the World Turns before. My manager found out later that it was for Chris Hughes and said, "You don't have a shot; they're going to go much older, so you should just have fun with it."

Digest: Your first week, you were already making out with Kelley Menighan Hensley [Emily].
Bruce: My first day! And there was a kiss in the screen test, too. It's daunting because she's beautiful and she's married to someone on the show [Jon Hensley, Holden], but she makes everything so at ease and so natural that it was great.

Digest: Had you watched soaps before?
Bruce: Yeah, I've tested five or six times, so when I started auditioning and screen-testing for soaps, I would watch to see how the other actors performed, get a feel for the show, try to understand the character I was testing for, who they were involved with. I started watching a lot of soaps. As an actor, we mostly work nights in Los Angeles [laughs], so your days are free.

Dylan Bruce, new to As the World Turns, recently sat down with CBS.com. Here are excerpts from that discussion:

CBS.com: What other soaps did you test for?
Dylan Bruce: I screen-tested for One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns twice. Then, I screen-tested twice for the "My Network TV" telenovela, the late night soaps. I actually booked one but they cancelled it a week before it started shooting.

CBS.com: What is your background?
Bruce: I am from Vancouver, British Colombia originally. I’m a Canadian citizen. Then I moved to Seattle with my mother. I went to the University of Washington. I was studying Economics. I was into Drama in high school but I didn’t think it was practical at the time so I started going into Business.

Then I took one Drama class [at the University of Washington] and I fell in love with it. I ended up double majoring in Drama and Economics. I graduated, and then I moved to San Diego and did some Theater down there. Then I moved to Los Angeles because I wanted to make some money. [Laughs] And the rest is happening right now.

CBS.com: Do you still live in L.A. or did you relocate to N.Y. for As the World Turns?
Bruce: I had a place [in L.A.] but I am putting all my eggs in one basket [in New York]. I don’t want to think about moving back to L.A.--I want to stay out here and be successful.

CBS.com: Who have you been working with?
Bruce: I’ve worked a lot with Kathryn Hays who plays Kim and Don Hastings who plays Bob. The majority of my scenes involve Kelley Hensley [Emily] and Grayson McCouch [Dusty]. They’ve all been very welcoming, unbelievably supportive. I feel so blessed to be working at this place with these people. It’s really a dream come true.

Read the full interview here.