As Stephanie Forrester, she specialized in sophisticated violence and scathing quips. For years, the dynamic between her and her arch rival, Brooke, fueled The Bold and the Beautiful. Viewers alternately loved and hated Susan Flannery, but eventually came to like her for the most part when the soap’s head writer decided to kill her off.
Her departure from “The Bold and the Beautiful” came as a shock to viewers. No one expected Flannery to make such a decision after 25 years on the set. In the background, there were conflicts with the producers, who allegedly did not want to agree to the actress’s higher rate. For years, Susan Flannery very rarely gave interviews and spoke about topics other than “The Bold and the Beautiful”. What is known about the actress?
Susan Flannery in “The Bold and the Beautiful” wanted Stephanie and Brooke to reconcile
The fiery conflict between Stephanie and Brooke, which included not only insults and fights, but also gunshots, poisonings, strangulations with feathered boas, encouragement to commit suicide, plain lies and intrigue, lasted for years. Although Susan Flannery and Katherine Lang had a genuine hatred for each other on the set, they were very fond of each other in private. Lang often called her older colleague “friend and mentor”. Flannery herself pressured the scriptwriter to change the relationship between the two women in this way, so that at the end of Stephanie and Brooke’s lives something more than just aggression would unite them. Ultimately, the senior Forrester, sick with cancer, gave up the ghost in the arms of her arch nemesis – she did not live to see the arrival of her husband, Eric.
The manner of Stephanie’s death and cancer were based on the experiences of Susan Flannery herself. The actress had colon cancer and faced a life-changing diagnosis. Although Flannery recovered, her experience came in handy when she had to play the increasingly ill Stephanie Forrester.
In real life, Susan Flannery never married. What’s more, she was linked for years to another actress and writer, Fannie Flagg (author of “Fried Green Tomatoes”). The ladies reportedly lived together for eight years. Their breakup was written about by a mutual friend, Rita Mae Brown, an activist for the LGBT+ community.
She never married to keep up appearances. She could have just as easily announced that she was a lesbian. Other people did that for her. She kept quiet, but at the same time she didn’t create any prosthetic heterosexual life. She and Fannie were together for eight years. They separated when the pressure began to build on them, wrote Rita Mae Brown in her memoirs.
Source: Gazeta
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