Actor Jacob Young, who had been on "The Bold and the Beautiful" (Rick Forrester) and "General Hospital" (Lucky Spencer) prior to joining "All My Children", stated that he had good instincts, but that he "was young and kind of doe-eyed to the world" then. It was not until the actor stepped into the "All My Children" role of JR Chandler that his acting range became more focused. He started to use tools he learned in classes and felt that his acting became more refined because of it. With his portrayal of JR, he explained how this factored in: "They twisted JR in a completely different direction," he stated. "They started off with JR not respecting his father and having a lot of elements of his mother in him. He was much softer. Then they started toying with it and couldn't believe what was coming out of me. I'd always been the nice, honorable guy; I'd never been the character who was stirring the pot."