Kassie DePaiva was already a familiar face to soap viewers when she took on the part of Blair Cramer on One Life to Live; she’d previously made a name for herself as Guiding Light‘s Chelsea Reardon. But as soon as she set foot on the OLTL set, she says she instantly connected to her new role. “I was 33 at the time and that character was not me,” she recalls. “I mean, I was tough and feisty, but I was all about being sweet and nice and making sure everybody liked me. Well, Blair didn’t give a poot. So, I was really able to own the power of being female. She was a very sexual, manipulative person, but she was smart and broken and lonely and hungry and determined, so it was a great character.