'One of the great joys of the role of being Steve was that I was constantly in a state of wonder.' Steve from 'Blue's Clues' breaks down how he overcame depression and death rumors to return to his beloved pup:
I’m in a cabin in the middle of nowhere eating vegan chili with Steve from “Blue’s Clues.”
In the late ’90s and early aughts, Steve was a rock star to me and my toddler peers, as big as Fred Rogers or Dora the Explorer . “Blue’s Clues,” which ran on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. from 1996 to 2006, featured him as the eager, ditzy, ageless, sexless best friend to an animated puppy who left him messages via paw prints around their house.
Steve jokes that his affinity for the wilderness might mean he hasn’t changed since his childhood in Pennsylvania, but it was a profoundly adult experience that brought him to this town: the death of his father in 2015, and the mourning period that followed. The meal Steve has made for us is emblematic of his life in the mountains, with vegetables sourced from small farms enjoying autumn harvest season. He’s entranced by this time of year — more than once during our conversation, he tells me he wishes I’d visited two weeks earlier, when the changing leaves “looked like Fruity Pebbles.” Things are calm here, and that helps him feel emotionally available — to his friends, who regularly come to stay, and now to me.
Steve was 22 when the show premiered, having landed the gig after a fluke audition. “I moved to New York to be a much, quote-unquote, ‘cooler’ thing — an Al Pacino-Dustin Hoffman hybrid,” he says. “But I gotta say, even at the first audition, there was a thing that I loved: this idea of talking to the camera, like a Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton thing. I thought the interactivity was really breakthrough. I used to call it ‘The Rocky Horror Children’s Show.
Steve is better now, but it took him a while to recover. “My strategy had been: ‘Hey, you got a great thing going, so just fight it!’ Turns out, you don’t fight depression; you collect it. After I left ‘Blue’s Clues,’ there was a long period of healing. It wasn’t until the death of my father that I really started to take things seriously, and my life became so much more manageable.”
Throughout the years, Steve made several media appearances with the sole purpose of dispelling the rumors, but they kept coming back.
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