During Meg Ryan's interview with Conan O'Brien, she poked fun at some soap opera cliches, such as pausing for dramatic moments and trying hard not to block her partner's light in scenes. "It gets worse kind of throughout the week, so by Friday, even if it's a very mundane sort of very non-dramatic thing, you have to really, really have a lot of emotion about it," Ryan said of portraying drama on "As The World Turns" in the early days of her career. "So you could be very dramatic about the oven being at the wrong temperature or something like that," she quipped.
Despite the over-the-top drama, fans loved watching Ryan as Betsy on the sudser, especially when the character was paired with Steve Andropoulos (Frank Runyeon). The couple's relationship was a bit controversial as Steve's brother Nick was married to Besty's stepmom Kim, but the two couldn't fight their feelings for each other. The couple went on to have a rocky romance and eventually welcomed a daughter named Danielle together.
Finally, after many ups and downs, Betsy and Steve got married, and their TV wedding earned more than 20 million viewers, making it the second highest-rated soap opera episode in daytime history after the wedding of "General Hospital's" Luke and Laura. From there, Ryan went on to become one of the most popular leading ladies in Hollywood.
