Just went for it, and got the part."
So far, so good.
Then came his first day on set.

Jack Wagner on ‘Melrose Place’.Credit:Aaron Spelling Prods / Courtesy Everett Collection
I think the director was like, ‘Yeah, cut.
Jack, you gotta call [series creator]Darren Star.
He’s waiting to talk to you.'"

Patrick Muldoon, Kristin Davis, Marcia Cross, Jack Wagner, and Heather Locklear at a ‘Melrose Place’ party.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Not thinking anything was amiss, Wagner recalls Star asking him, “‘What’s going on?'”
Wagner nonchalantly replied, “‘I don’t know.
I’m just kind of doing it the way I did in the audition.’

And he goes, ‘Yeah, we do the lines that are written here.'”
Their relationship blossomed off-screen, as well, when they began dating in 2007.
The pair wereengagedin Aug. 2011, but thenscrapped that announcementthree months later.
Both Wagner and Locklear remained in the core cast ofMelrose Placeuntil the series finale in 1999. you’re able to listen to the rest of Wagner’s appearance onStill the Placeabove.