On October 30, 2026, The Bold and the Beautiful star Scott Clifton secured his fourth Daytime Emmy award for his portrayal of Liam Spencer. Now the beloved actor has opened up about the reel he submitted and the material that was chosen to secure his latest accomplishment.
Clifton opened up in an exclusive conversation with Parade about his decision-making when assembling the reel.
The actor revealed that he himself is an Emmy voter, so he understands the sheer amount of content his colleagues have to consume. “The rules state that your reel can be up to 15 minutes,” and, as a result of the length of the reels and the number of submissions, Clifton shares that “sometimes it can take days” to view everything and cast your ballot.
Thus, the former General Hospital star explains that it was really important to create a concise yet accurate reflection of his work in the reel. “I think it’s the respectful thing to do. So I create a reel that isn’t a second longer than it has to be.”
The actor revealed that he tried to keep his reel at about half of the runtime “about 7 minutes or so,” he shared.
So what did the actor submit that ultimately guaranteed the win? “I chose three very simple scenes,” he shared.
Back in 2025, Clifton’s character Liam was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor that was causing him to have fainting episodes and severe reactions.
The first scene that Clifton chose came from an early part of the storyline in which Liam’s ex-wife Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and her current husband Finn (Tanner Novlan) are informing him that his cancer is terminal.
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The reason he chose this scene for his reel was to construct a narrative for the Emmy voter to follow. “It was important for me to put in a scene like that, not because it’s, like, my best acting or whatever, but because you want to tell a story. Part of telling a story is exposition, as anybody who watches a soap opera knows, and so that first scene there is to set the stage and the stakes.”
As the story plays out, Liam decided to keep this tragic news to himself, as he didn’t want his loved ones, specifically his wife and daughters, to find out. “That really was the sort of arc of the story. It was Liam learning that maybe it’s okay to let people feel sad.”
For Clifton, the story was one of learning to accept the unacceptable. “You’re not burdening people; you’re robbing them of their chance to mourn with you. For Liam, it was something he thought was selfless that I think he learns that it would actually be selfish.”
The second scene that Clifton chose came from the middle of the storyline. Liam invited his father, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont), to lunch. The actor shared, “Again, just very short, very simple scene.”
In the scene, Bill asks his son, “What can I do for you? Why did you ask me to lunch?” and instead of being honest, Liam decides that he can’t say anything, “so he just thanks him and tells him he loves him, and kind of says all the things that he wanted to say, but without saying the one thing he needs to say.”
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For Clifton, the scene had “a bit of emotional tension there. The scene ends with father and son holding hands across the table, but there’s still the lie right in the middle of them.”
The third and final scene came near the end of the storyline when Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) learns that he’s dying. “It was just a conversation about dying,” Clifton revealed.
Reflecting on what he loved most about the storyline as a whole, Clifton revealed, “If you look at it, there was no spectacle; it was just a series, for months and months, it was just a series of conversations. Very simple, very real conversations, and that’s what I love most about it.”
The actor also revealed that early in the storyline, he wasn’t planning to submit. “I never want to submit anything unless I think that there’s at least a possibility of not just getting nominated, but winning. Otherwise you’re wasting people’s time, or at least that’s my thinking.”
It wasn’t until the storyline reached its climax that he began to shift his opinion. Before that, he felt that the story was built to serve his peers. “I was saying, ‘this is everybody else’s story. I mean, my job is to die,’ right, in the story. Everybody else’s job is to do the real emotional work.”
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Part of that emotion truly came from believing this would be the true end for Liam Spencer: “The plan always was for the character to be killed off, and this was my goodbye story.”
But ultimately Brad Bell changed his mind, “and somewhere near the end, that ended up changing,” and the character of Liam was able to live.
Fans can relive Scott Clifton’s journey on The Bold and the Beautiful from the beginning on the series official streaming app, BBTV—new episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful air weekdays on CBS and stream weeknights on Paramount+.
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