Actor Freddie Smith wants to see Sonny and Will go to bed together on “Days of Our Lives”

I should be posting scenes from yesterday’s Days of Our Lives later today during which Sonny and Will were still attached at the lips!

They had their first official date at Sonny’s coffee house then kissed each other again before parting ways.

Will their physical intimacy ever graduate to the bedroom like many of their heterosexual counterparts?

‘I think it’s very important,’  Freddie Smith says in an interview with Frontiers magazine. ‘If you are in a relationship, that is the romantic aspect of it. So I think it’s important to show every aspect of a relationship.’

Will (Chandler Massey) was recently seen in bed with someone – ex-girlfriend Gabi!

‘I don’t think he had any intentions of sleeping with her,’ Smith explains. ‘He was just so broken with everybody he cared about talking so badly to him. He was with a friend and it just sparked, it just happened.’

Daytime soaps have mostly shied away from showing their few gay characters doing anything beyond kissing. ABC did show a love scene in bed on the now-canceled One Life to Live between the characters of Oliver Fish and Kyle Lewis but the characters were written off the show soon after.

For Smith, playing a gay role has given insight into and empathy for the coming out process for gays.

‘I have many gay friends and I hear their stories,’ he says. ‘Being a straight guy, I did not go through the coming out process. But when you are playing a gay role, that is your homework, and it brings me much closer to the community.’

‘My character is gay so I feel then I am right in it,’ he adds. ‘I am playing a gay guy for five days a week. I start to get in touch with that side and be able to relate. It’s hard to come out. It’s hard with the gay bashing. I realize it more now through playing this character.’