Anti-heroine, heroine, out-and-out villainess – Emma Samms’ alter-ego has run the gamut on General Hospital…and her character’s ethical mailability will be on full display during her latest reprisal.
Emma Samms Talks Return To GH
“It’s the perfect part in that regard,” opins Samms to Variety. “It’s so fun, and really interesting. It’s that depth, all those different colors that Holly has…” The actress teased to the outlet that Ms. Sutton would be in league with (or is it, pulling one over on?) “a brilliant, strong, powerful, interesting villain,” and that there will be “some interesting twists with Holly coming back to town.”
While the actress couldn’t spoil much more than that — and with reps for the ABC sudser remaining characteristically tight-lipped — she did reiterate the one small bone that fans and reporters alike were thrown when her casting was first announced i.e. that Holly’s return would coincide with Jonathan Jackson’s (Lucky Spencer) own.
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Enthused Samms: ““It’s such a gift that Frank [Valentini, executive producer of GH] has given me, working with Jonathan, who is, obviously, a very, very good actor. That’s undisputed — but he’s also really nice. And we have a very similar way of approaching the work, and we realized that that is because we were both trained by Tony Geary [ex-Luke Spencer].”
As for her ongoing battle with ‘Long COVID’ and how it affected filming: “I’ve been like this now for four and a half years nearly, and it’s baffling to not just the people who have it, but it’s baffling to the doctors. They are some very smart people who are investigating and studying it and doing research, but all they keep finding is more and more damage that COVID has done to people’s bodies.
“I got some really good scans done and they found that at some point I had had myocarditis, which has scarred my heart… If it wasn’t for the fact that people at General Hospital are so understanding of it and accommodating, I would not be able to work like I do. When I’m back in the U.K., and anytime I’m not on the set, I have to lie down, I have to put my feet up. I have something called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, so if I stand too long, I keel over…
“The powers that be at General Hospital accommodate that, but not every production would. They write most of my scenes sitting down. They’ve put me in a dressing room that’s really close to the elevator. Just lots of little things like that that mean I can do the job.”
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