Message #263870

[Janelle MacDonald]

DIANA MILLAY

As Laura Collins, a reincarnated "phoenix" who returned to life every 100 years, Diana Millay played the first-ever supernatural character on "Dark Shadows."

Millay said she was very much aware that this was something new for soap operas.

"I won't say that we thought we were going to be some legend in our own time, but we felt it, yes," the actress said.

How did the cast and crew learn that the phoenix storyline resonated with viewers?

"We got the clue when the reception, immediately, was totally overwhelming," Millay said.

"We thought, 'Hey! What are we doing?' I believe that in this life, if you are around people who are incredibly compatible, and every single day everything works so smoothly, and everything goes like a miracle, and everything is a miracle — ah, there must be something special about what you're doing. And we knew that there was something special about what we were doing."