of course. As an actor, you want that kind of recognition from your peers. Unfortunately, for me, I’m always up against our very best actors. So it’s a difficult place for me to be in. I don’t have the status of a Peter Bergman [Jack], Kristoff St. John [Neil], or Christian LeBlanc [Michael], but I really don’t think about it. I just do my job and if it comes, it comes. I’d love to win one before the career is over, but I’m also not losing sleep over it. Melody’s Emmy-less career is much more tragic because she’s a soap icon. The fact that she hasn’t won an Emmy is ridiculous. I’m just a knucklehead trying to figure out what I’m doing.
TVG: Are you submitting yourself this year, and if so, which category?
JM: I’ve always been a leading man, but you know someone I respect told me I wouldn’t be nominated against Peter, Eric Braeden [Victor] or Christian in Lead. So I may submit myself into supporting, to see if that changes anything. It’s hard to be nominated in the lead category when you’re as young as I am, or not as good as the top-tier talent dudes on Y&R. I’m as competitive as the next dude, though.
TVG: Any plans to revive your boy band, 3Deep with former co-star Eddie Cibrian (ex-Matt)?
JM: [laughs] Oh, God no! Man, I’m old, dude! I’ve got a wife and kids now. At some point, you can’t tour anymore — and that’s the only way you can sell a CD. It was a nice two-year run — we had more fun than should be legally allowed. That was a time I always look back on and hysterically laugh about.
TVG: So you’re saying I should take down my 3Deep poster from my bedroom wall!
JM: No way, Nelson! I demand that you leave that poster up so you can keep the dream alive [laughs]!
TVG: You and your wife Tobe are expecting your third baby boy later this year [the couple have two sons, Cooper, 5, and Crew, 2.] Are you disappointed it wasn’t a girl?
JM: We were trying for a girl, for sure, but we’re destined to have a lot of penises running around my house! What can I say? I’m a hundred percent man!