Michael E. Knight And Cady McLain Explain How All My Children’s Tad & Dixie Came To Be

In an interview with Soap Hub, both Michael E. Knight and Cady McClain talked about the on-screen chemistry that their characters had on “All My Children.” The two actors admitted that what they had between them was soap opera magic, to say the least. Recalling their first kiss, McClain said, ” I remember after that — like just the vibe and the whole studio and the camera people were like, ‘Oh yeah, this is, this is it.’”

Knight added that at first, Tad and Dixie were not supposed to be a couple, but what the two characters shared was unexplainable (in a good way, of course). Knight said that he knew they had something powerful, if not also timeless when he and McClain did their Tad and Dixie Love Test together. He said, “There was a series of three questions. It was like, do you dream about me and stuff? And a friend of mine, somebody called me and said, ‘That was really good magic.’”

They had such chemistry that Tad and Dixie even made the list of all-time best soap couples, per Soaps.com. That’s an accolade they most definitely deserve.