Days of Our Lives fans have a reason to celebrate this upcoming week as super spy couple Paul Narita (Christopher Sean) and Andrew Donovan (Colton Little) are set to tie the knot. After three years or romance, a spinoff appearance, and even navigating a heartbreaking funeral, the couple is set to say their vows this Tuesday. Now, Colton Little reflects on what it’s been like joining the show, the emotional wedding scenes and where does his character go from here.
Little recently spoke with SoapHubin reference to the upcoming storyline. Originally he didn’t expect to be asked back to the show. The actor shared, “When I joined the show three years ago I was coming on for five episodes of Beyond Salem 2, and I had no idea or intention or belief that my character would continue on after that and so getting to join the mothership at all let alone have a three-year span of developing these characters and their romantic relationship and now getting to sort of cement that in soap history with a gay wedding especially coming during the month of Pride which is incredible timing it’s an honor and it was surprising to me as I’m sure it is going to be for a lot of fans or it was when that news was announced.”
Discussing the tone of the upcoming wedding itself, the actor shared, “I think that it was trying to strike that balance of you know honoring the mood that Salem was in post funeral. But also realizing that this is a time of celebration, and John and Marina are love, on that show they represent love, they represent love in all of its different facets. So knowing that we could kind of take that and build upon it and have our own experience with our own wedding and being surrounded by people that we love and that love us that was the tone that was the mood.”
The actor continued to reflect on his current story trajectory, sharing, “Paul and Andrew from the start were sort of an island with each other. They went on this mission in Hong Kong and it was all action and spy drama and all of this happening you know three years ago. So now it’s kind of nice because again we have each other, and a lot of our love story takes place offscreen, and so they sort of continue with that theme of us enjoying being around each other. There’s a little bit of fraternization with Paul and some of his family members and honoring who he is as a character, as well Andrew and his family, so we both get our private moments and we both get our moment together, and then the beautiful wedding of course.“
Sharing what the role of Andrew means to him, Little said, “Young Colton who grew up in conservative smalltown Nebraska never thought that as a gay man in my private life I would be able to see this on television. Let alone actually be a part of creating this. Being part of that representation for someone else out there watching. I’ve had a chance to meet so many fans over the last three years who’ve come up to me and said “Your character has given me the like the bravery or the peace of mind to be able to come out to my family or they’ve allowed me to see myself reflected on screen.” And I think that that’s the biggest honor of all.”
Discussing where his character goes from here, Little shared, “I think a lot of people know by now, Shane is present at the wedding, which was such an incredible experience to get to work with Charles Shaughnessy finally after so long, and there are some really cool conversations that happen in regards what comes next for Black Patch what comes next with the ISA and Andrew and Paul are both part of privy to that conversation.”
