General Hospital viewers — and indeed Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis) — were reintroduced to a familiar face on Wednesday’s (May 22) airshow when Lane Davies (ex-Cameron Lewis) debuted as Fergus Byrne.
Lane Davies On GH Redux
“The material is good, and working with Nancy, it was really just a matter of falling back into the groove — and it was an easy groove to fall back into,” the actor insisted to Soap Opera Digest.
On how his return came about: “It was a combination of factors, I think. I know Nancy had been sort of making noises, like, “Get Lane back somehow!”
Then I ran into Patrick Mulcahey [GH’s exiting co-head writer, who was instrumental in coupling Davies and Grahm’s alter-egos at their former stomping ground, Santa Barbara] at Bridget Dobson’s [the co-creator of SB] funeral
“We had a lovely lunch and visit, even though it was kind of a sad time, and I think he took a look at me and thought, ‘Well, he’s holding up pretty well. Maybe we can get him on the show.’
“I’m honestly not sure, but I think it was a fortuitous combination of factors that got me back. I’m at a stage in my life where if it seems like fun, I’ll do it. My criteria is, Is it fun? Does it involve travel? Does it pay? Any one of those three will get me off my mountain and back to work, but it has to be at least one of those three — and this was all three.”
On returning to GH 20 years after his last appearance: “I felt a little like Rip Van Winkle, you know? The building was the same. Some of the sets were the same. The dressing rooms are the same. Some of the staff had changed — there’s a different security person at the front gate — but other than that, it was almost a surreal feeling of stepping back in time.”
On reteaming with Grahn: “This time around it was just fun, for the most part. Nancy said, “This is just like falling off a bicycle!” I think she meant “falling off a log” or “riding a bicycle” but she mixed her metaphors and we giggled about it for several days. It didn’t take us more than five minutes to kind of get back into a rhythm. So, all in all, [it] was great fun.”
As to whether he’d be open to continuing in his new role: “Oh, totally. Like I said, I’m at a point in my life where if it’s fun, I’ll do it, and it’s always fun to work with Nancy. And I like camera work. I don’t do that much of it anymore, but I’m not fully retired. I call myself semi-retired, which basically means I’m lazy. But I had great fun this time and it fits my sort of life schedule of extreme slothfulness mixed with occasional bursts of energy and productivity [laughs]. It suits that rhythm quite well.”
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