Way back when his alter-ego conned Nina into marriage on General Hospital, Rick Hearst played opposite former and future Young and the Restless star Michelle Stafford. Now, Rick (and Ric) has a new leading lady in the form of Cynthia Watros — but had fate intervened decades previous, the two actors would have made up a popular Guiding Light coupling.
Rick Hearst Talks Up Cynthia Watros
In 1993, when Hearst was playing Alan-Michael Spaulding and GL was looking to cast the part of Lucy Cooper, AM’s eventual bride. Enter aspiring actress Watros.
“When Cynthia came in for that audition, I just marveled at her because there was such an incredible depth to her performance,” recalled Hearst to Soap Opera Digest. “You know, she’s a very trained actor, and it was like she took it on as a Shakespearean role and was so involved.
“I loved what she did, but it was not the direction that they wanted to go in with Lucy. They went with Sonia [Satra], but I remembered her, and then when I finally saw her get the role of Annie [Dutton] on Guiding Light [the following year], I was like, ‘Oh, thank God they got her, because she is going to be a freaking powerhouse!'”
Hearst went on to effuse: “I absolutely love working with her on GH. This is genuinely the first time I’ve had that opportunity to work with Cynthia and she is phenomenal. Just phenomenal. There’s such an ease to her work. She is such an incredible listener and goes with the moment of a scene while, at the same time, having a completely full point of view from her character’s standpoint.
“The two of us never having worked together and yet our characters having some sort of history, she just brought it! From our first scenes together, it just jibed. I’ve really enjoyed it.”
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