Young & Restless’ Peter Bergman Sheds Light on His Emmy-Nominated Performance

The Young and the Restless’ Peter Bergman shared his thoughts on his performance that gained him his 26th Daytime Emmy nomination. Although he was initially hesitant to submit his tape for consideration, the actor revealed he ultimately decided to do so after listening to “wiser people.”

Here’s what the actor had to say about his performance and the nomination.

Peter Bergman almost did not submit the tape of his Emmy-nominated Young and Restless scene

Peter Bergman, who has played Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless since 1989, has earned his 26th nomination for the upcoming Daytime Emmy Awards. During an interview with TODAY.com, the actor responded with enthusiasm.

Bergman said, “It never gets old. It just doesn’t. There’s something nice about the people in my industry saying, ‘Oh yeah, he’s one of the good ones.’”

The Emmy-nominated actor recalled how he almost didn’t send the tape for his nominations because of the limit on how long the tape can be. He said, “You don’t get to show them that much variety in showing one scene from a show. Yes, it’s a long scene, but it’s one scene from a show.”

He was also concerned about how the viewers would perceive the scene without the proper context of the episode. Bergman said, “Does the audience know this is not normal behavior for Jack? Does the audience stick around long enough while we kind of set it up that he’s trying to help her? Are they going to watch the entire thing and see just how far Jack was willing to go?”

Nonetheless, the actor admitted that he submitted his tape after listening to “wiser people.”

The episode that earned him his nomination is the one where Jack goes to extreme lengths to help his friend Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott), who relapses into alcoholism. While he was happy about his nomination, he said, “I was disappointed that Melody didn’t get a nomination because she had probably a harder job in that show.”

Furthermore, Bergman revealed that the storyline was quite personal to him as he had lost a close friend to alcohol addiction nine years ago. “It was a giant loss for me, so the subject was a very personal one,” he explained.