There’s no doubt in the minds of Port Charles folk (and many a General Hospital viewer) when it comes to Kristina (Kate Mansi) and Ava’s (Maura West) recent squirmish — they’re convinced that the latter was wholly responsible for the former tumbling from that hotel window. But according to Mansi, there was much more thought put into the effort by her and her costar.

Kate Mansi On The Nuance Of Kristina’s Tumble

“Maura is so protective of Ava, and she was really insistent on [bringing more nuance into the moment] than just these two women having a bitch fight just so that we can get to the result of Kristina going out the window,” explained the actress to Soap Opera Digest.

“She played it as, ‘I’m arguing this point, you’re arguing this point, and I’m certainly not going to push you,’ but [their confrontation] escalates in a natural way. I think that was really smart and it leaves it in this really sort of knotty gray area because it’s like, ‘Wait, did she push her, or did she fall? Whose fault is it?’ The blame isn’t black and white.

“Kristina came to Ava’s hotel room so hot, you know? Off the charts! Kristina isn’t attacking her, but if you think about it, Kristina comes into her space and is yelling at her and upset with her and making demands and there is all this heat coming from Kristina. Ava did not lure her there; Kristina went there willingly, on her own.”

And while a daring double was (naturally) employed to take the actual flying leap, Mansi made contributions all her own: “Rob [Markham, the director] was like, ‘Okay, we have to get audio of you falling.’ Everyone was still on set and looking at me and I had to do this big scream, so I let out this big scream that I thought was really good. And then Rob was like, ‘We need it longer.’ And I was like, ‘Longer?!’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, it’s five floors!’ So we did it again until we got the scream just right.”

What did you think of the stunt GH managed to pull off? Let us know in the comments section below.

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