Young & Restless’ Joshua Morrow Unpacks the ‘Decision the Show and I Had to Make’ About His Future as Nick
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The Young and the Restless’ Joshua Morrow makes no secret of how happy he is to be playing Nick Newman. But that doesn’t mean that his future in Genoa City has always been a fait accompli.
Soon after the actor started work as Victor and Nikki’s son in 1994, “I fell in love with the schedule,” he tells Soaps.com. “It occurred to me very early on that I really wanted to be a dad, and I wanted to be home for dinner at night and not have to be on location. [This job] checked all those boxes.
“I think a lot of people just assume I’m going to use this as a stepping stone for a primetime show or a big movie career,” he adds. But “there is something about getting a daytime show, staying a long time and having that work/life balance that everyone talks about achieving but doesn’t always achieve” that is priceless.
As a young up-and-comer back in the day, Morrow got a crash course in the game of chutes and ladders that is showbiz. “It became pretty obvious to me that job security in Hollywood is difficult to attain.” At Young & Restless, however, “we very fortunately never seemed to have to worry about getting picked up [for additional years], and again, I got to play Nick Newman, so I knew there was always going to be a Nick Newman.
“Whether it was me playing him or not was a decision that I and the show had to make with each other,” he continues. Thankfully, given that Morrow knocks it outta the park day after day, year after year, and has no desire to be Tom Cruise- or Ryan Reynolds-level famous, it has led to what the fan fave calls “just incredible job security.”
Not only that, but now son Crew — the middle of Morrow’s three boys; he also has a daughter — is getting in on the act. Just last week, he made his daytime debut in the pivotal role of Bill Spencer and Katie Logan’s only child together on The Bold and the Beautiful. Ironically, both Mom and Dad are played by the Young & Restless MVP’s former castmates: Don Diamont was Brad Carlton, a romantic rival of Nick’s, and Heather Tom was his sister, Victoria.
