Sam Page has spoken out about his experience on the Bold Type, stating that several ideas for a spin-off were’seriously tossed about’.
In the popular series, the 46-year-old portrayed Richard Hunter, who tracked the lives and loves of three women working at the fictitious Scarlet Magazine in New York.
It aired for five seasons from 2017 to 2021, with Meghann Fahy, Aisha Dee, and Katie Stevens in the key characters.
Richard didn’t have an easy time on the programme, with his marriage to Sutton Brady (Meghann) dissolving shortly after they married due to a disagreement about having children.
In the heartbreaking series finale, the couple worked through their troubles and called off their breakup at the last minute, with fans clamouring for more of the series ever since.
When asked whether he wanted to reprise his part, Sam didn’t hesitate for a second before promising to return to all things Scarlet.
‘Hell yes, absolutely,’ he told People Magazine. ‘It was so much fun. I loved working with Meghann. It was the best.’
‘I think there were ideas that were seriously bounced around,’ he teased of a possible spin-off. ‘I think it ended up being something that they looked into and couldn’t do because of character rights and stuff.’
Predicting what the series would be about, the actor, who has previously been in Gossip Girl and Desperate Housewives, proposed that Sutton create her own fashion brand.
‘And then it would be an exploration – which was the storyline we never really got to do and I was always thought we would do on the show – of why somebody in a position like Sutton’s can’t have it all because they’re a woman, and why you can’t have the family [and] the extreme level of success of her business, of her fashion design,’ he added.
‘I think with the show we always talked about it and hoped we would hit that point of an exploration of that.’
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Aside from the Bold Type, Sam just joined Grey’s Anatomy as Sam Sutton in the May 4 episode, Come Fly With Me.
In the medical drama, he took on the role of an air force pilot who was injured in a base-jumping accident.
