Stephen Nichols is celebrating four decades of playing Steve “Patch” Johnson on Days of Our Lives. The Peacock soap honored the actor and character with an episode filled with memories and flashbacks.
Speaking with Soap Opera Digest, Nichols opened up about his run as a character who started as a sketchy villain with a vengeance against Bo (Peter Reckell). Forty years later, so much has happened with Steve, but one thing has stayed consistent. His patch.
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“I was always against losing the patch. It is his signature, both physically and psychologically. Wearing the patch is one of the reasons I was excited about taking the job, because I knew what an indelible signature it would be for the character,” he shared with SOD.
The patch makes the character of Steve and Nichols knows the power it has had in developing the character.
“The patch has always been central to the psychology of the character. From the early days of hatred towards Bo for doing this to him [Steve lost his eye in a bar fight with his future brother-in-law], and resentment toward the world, believing that he is a freak and could never have a normal, happy life. Then later Kayla shows him in the moment she removes the patch to clean his wounds that he is not a freak and, as Patch says, gazing into the mirror when she is gone, 'She didn’t even flinch.' It was the beginning of Kayla teaching Steve to start believing in himself,” Nichols expressed.
That moment Nichols referenced created the super couple known as Stayla. Mary Beth Evans (Kayla) and Nichols have been fan favorites from the jump. Nichols fully believes that Steve would not have stuck around Salem for so long if not for Kayla and his killer chemistry with Evans.
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“Now you’re talking 'magic.' There’s no way the same thing could have been created with another actress. Mary Beth is unique, and our chemistry is a once in a lifetime thing and unique to us, which hopefully invokes a little bit of 'magic' every time we are on screen together,” the actor stated.
The feeling is mutual, too. As Parade reported, Evans shared an emotional message to Nichols on his milestone anniversary, celebrating “the ride” they have been on all these years. They are sadly one of the last super couples still on Days of Our Lives, and are still together.
Congrats to Nichols on 40 years!
Days of Our Lives airs weekdays on Peacock.
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