Florencia Lozano In the Press
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Soap Opera Digest issue 11/27/01

Special Section where they talk to 10 Most Missed and Loved Stars
Go’in solo: Florencia Lozano (ex-Téa, 1997-2000)

Reason for Leaving: Her contract ended, and says Lozano (who hadn’t had strong story following Téa’s 1998 nups to Todd), it was time. "I needed to leave for myself and wanting to do other things as an actor."

Since leaving, you’ve appeared onstage, in "Love’s Labour’s Lost" and "Where’s My Money?", an off-off Broadway production. How is stage different from TV? "There’s pretty much a 180-degree difference. They’re different mediums. You don’t have to speak loudly on soaps; here, you need to project and think about your voice, your breathing, articulating."

Where’s My Money? Has moved to The Manhattan Theater Club, which is a larger stage. Tell us about that. "It’s really nice. We just started previewing [in the new theater] so we haven’t been reviewed yet, but we’re having nice houses. It’s nice to feel that support. There’s always the hope when you do something off-off Broadway that it’ll get moved up, and our theater company [Labyrinth] has a good record of that."

Do you miss anything about OLTL? "The people. But three years was just right in terms of stability and having someplace to go every day. That was really great, for the time I was there, to have that consistency of work, the money coming in all the time – all those things were great."

Have you visited the studio recently? "I haven’t. I’m wary with the whole anthrax deal. It’s so horrific."

Do you think the writers missed an opportunity with Téa? "I wanted to explore why Téa had gotten involved in this relationship. And to some extent, soaps are about relationships, but I would like to see more stories about women that are about them, as opposed to who’s the next guy up to bat. I tried to play that she was running away from herself. I was a bit disappointed. I thought she got a little lost. Weak is the wrong word, but flat."

Have you shrugged off the role now? "She’ll always be inside of me. In TV, unlike theater, the image the camera captures is really you. Téa, to a large extent, is me in that world. I loved her. I think I’ll always carry a piece of her with me. But now, I’ve shifted gears."

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