‘Days of Our Lives’: Deidre Hall Details How Drake Hogestyn Won the Role of John Black (VIDEO)
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Ten years into Deidre Hall‘s legendary run as Marlena Evans on Days of Our Lives, a new leading man arrived in Salem — and together they would become one of daytime television’s most beloved supercouples.
On January 24, 1986, Drake Hogestyn, a former minor-league baseball player, made his debut as a mysterious, bandaged stranger known as “The Pawn.” Loosely inspired by Jason Bourne from Robert Ludlum’s bestselling novels, the amnesiac character had a questionable past and was recovering from facial reconstructive surgery.
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