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A couple weeks ago, we posted part one of an interview Sarah Brown gave to TV Guide. In it, the actress spoke enthusiastically about her return to General Hospital.
Now, take a look at highlights from part two of the conversation:
TVGuide.com: Of course, Laura Wright is now playing Carly, so you are creating a new role....
Sarah Brown: I'm going to be playing Claudia Zacchara. She is the eldest daughter of Anthony Zacchara.
TVGuide.com: Is Claudia totally a tough cookie or does she have a soft spot somewhere?
Brown: Oh, she has a soft spot, because she's being played by me. [Laughs] I can't fathom playing a one-dimensional tough cookie on a daytime show. I dont think that works, whereas it might in other mediums, like prime time. So let me tell you about Claudia....
TVGuide.com: Is she a sexual woman?
Brown: Very. She's a very, very sexual woman. Thats what I'm gathering. There are some really wonderful reasons for that. Like any tough cookie she's tough because she's really fragile, and she's really fragile because she has an Achille's heel. She has a couple of them, and they will develop over this first year. But one in particular she comes to town with, and it's a really good one.
TVGuide.com: What's the dynamic between Claudia and Johnny (Brandon Barash)?
Brown: It's going to be complicated. Johnny was little, apparently, when I left, so Brandon is playing pretty young, I guess. Johnny was young when I was banished and sent away to live with my mother, who had been banished earlier. But I grew up with my father until I was 16 and Johnny was about 8. I was very protective and loving of my "baby brother," so it's parallel to Into the Wild, though there's a little more scab-picking to be done between the two of us.
The brother and sister in that movie are close because they're growing up in a loony bin of a household. There was yelling going on [at the Zaccharas'], a manic-depressive bipolar father.... I havent spoken to him since I was banished.
Read the full interview with Brown now.
As everyone knows by now, Sarah Brown is coming back to General Hospital in the role of Claudia Zacchara.
Here is an ABC promo, hyping the return:
Kimberly McCullough has seemingly spent her entire life in front of a soap opera camera. She debuted at the age of 7.
Now, of course, the character of Robin Scorpio is pregnant on General Hospital. She recently recounted her top five moments in show history. Here's her favorite story from 2007:
"I liked the very first girls' night out. It was the Patrick fantasy scenes where Becky (Herbst, Elizabeth), Natty (Livingston, Emily), Minae Noji, Kelly, Kent King, Lainey and I all got to make out with Jason Thompson. That was so great. It was the first time I got to really work with all of the girls at once.
We all got together in my dressing room that morning and started to run lines. That's how we really started to bond as friends in real life. It was from that moment. I remember we all went out to lunch, after we did the scenes. Jason was the only guy there. It was hilarious.
He was sitting there with five women that he just made out with. We were teasing him, asking him who was the best kisser and really giving him a hard time. He was like, 'Somehow I feel like I should just buy lunch.' And he did."
Check out other stories from McCullough now.
As General Hospital fans know, Robin's dream has come true: she's pregnant!
However, telling daddy Patrick may be a nightmare.
"She's contemplating telling him, but then realizes he's so not ready," Kimberly McCullough said to Soap Opera Digest this week.
To read more about her crisis of conscience - plus who she catches Patrick with - pick up the January 29 issue of Soap Opera Digest now!
Here are the General Hospital spoilers so many fans have been looking forward to. Next week, on the show...
January 21:
Sonny and Kate have a heart-to-heart.
January 22:
Alexis (Nancy Grahn) is mugged.
January 23:
The killer makes contact with Sam and Alexis.
January 24:
Trevor spies on Ric (Rick Hearst).
January 25:
Jason finally tells Carly to mind her own damn business.
With Laura Wright now embedded in the role created by Sarah Brown, the actress resurfaces on General Hospital on January 31.
The new vixen to be portrayed by brown? Claudia Zacchara, the prodigal daughter of mob boss Anthony. Below, the star speaks on this come back with TV Guide:
TVGuide.com: When did the talks to return to General Hospital first start up?
Sarah Brown: Oh, I want to say about five months ago. It was a really interesting happenstance.
TVGuide.com: Was it a call from [ABC Daytime president Brian] Frons or...?
Brown: No, it was nothing like that. First, I haven't seen Maurice Benard or anybody from the show except for Tava [Smiley, ex-Chloe] and Stephen Kay (Reginald) here and there in six or seven years. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, I'm at the car wash and Maurice, who lives in my neighborhood, is there. "What's up, Mo?" [Laughs] Meanwhile, I'm running into Kin Shriner (Scotty) every other day at my gym.
So Maurice and I chatted for a bit, and then three days later I run into [GH executive producer] Jill Farren Phelps, of all people, at the local café. I'm like, "This is weird. General Hospital is everywhere." So I felt like that was a really good time, for a lot of different reasons, to approach Jill and give her a big hug. It built from there.
TVGuide.com: Did you have any reservations about returning to the show? Concerns about "Who's going to have my character's back?"
Brown: A lot of "Who's going to have my back?" went through my mind. It took us five months to really work out all the details. It's been so many years, but right away they let me know, it wasn't ever going to be about me playing Carly, and that's always been interesting to me. They talked to me about that years ago, about a month before I did As the Worlds Turns, like:
"[You can be] Carly's evil twin sister!" Because I had really dark hair at that point. We kicked it around, always in good fun, but it was never really something that we got into in terms of negotiations. I'm funny the way about the way that I work with soaps I like to figure out creatively what we're going to do, and if it makes sense, I have no issues with the boundaries between daytime and prime time. I see other actors do it. Tamara Tunie does As the World Turns and Law & Order: SVU really successfully, and why not?
You should be able to navigate both worlds. So I don't have any reservations about daytime per se. They pitched the hell out of the character and I responded to it right away. "That sounds like fun, sign me up!" [Laughs ]
There have been rumors that Jason Gerhardt would be identified as the Text Message Killer on General Hospital - but it looks like his character will meet an even worse fate.
The actor is leaving the show and here's how it will go down:
Coop is found hanging by Maxie. Yikes. Reportedly, the DNA file with the results from the fingernail scraping is missing and Coop will be suspected. Next thing we know, he's hanging by a noose!
Did Jerry to it to protect his real identity? Did Coop kill himself? Did the TMK do it? Tune in to General Hospital in the near future and find out!
Still looking for that perfect Valentine's Day gift for your honey?
The cast of General Hospital is happy to help out!
Several major soap stars have lent their vocal talents to the upcoming CD A Love Affair. The album will be released on January 29 and feature the following artists/actors and songs:
Robin Christopher has made her final appearance as Skye Chandler Quartermaine on General Hospital.
This news doesn't come as a surprise, as word of Christopher's exit has been well-known for awhile now. Over the past few weeks, the actress has been unhappy with her story line - or lackthereof - on the series.
As the whispers of Christopher's impending exit grew louder, fans feared that her character might be killed off by the show's Text Message Killer. She wasn't.
Moreover, Christopher was not fired; she chose to leabe During her nearly seven-year run on General Hospital, Christopher earned two Daytime Emmy nominations in 2003 and 2005 for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
