Nancy Lee Grahn Teases That ‘Really Positive Things Are Happening At General Hospital’

General Hospital is going to feel decidedly different come March, all courtesy of new head writers Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte. In an exclusive with Soap Opera Digest, two-time Daytime Emmy winner Nancy Lee Grahn is thrilled with the changing of the guard.

Nancy Lee Grahn Has Her Say

Grahn has long worked with Korte, a member of GH’s writing team (in varying capacities) since 1994, whom she termed, “Incredibly skilled and focused and incredibly dedicated to the show.” But her association with Mulcahey, himself a former GH scribe, goes back even further — to the days when she toiled as Julia Wainwright on NBC’s Santa Barbara and Mulcahey provided the sparklingly, impression-making dialogue.

In fact, Grahn insists that Mulcahey is the reason she’s still in the soap biz. “He wrote so many of the words that came out of the mouth of my character [on Santa Barbara], the best, articulate words that just blew my mind and were so satisfying to say. I thought, ‘I’m not going to be able to have a better part anywhere else…and I attribute most of that to him, because he wrote a lot, and he wrote particularly well…It was such a satisfying experience. And as a result, I’ve gotten to know him over the years. We’re good friends and he is incredibly versatile, kind, smart funny, with just the right amount of cynicism. He’s just one of my favorite people on the planet.”

Grahn further enthuses that, “[Mulcahey] loves to make characters dimensional and interesting and I’m excited to come to work to see what he’s going to write. And for me to be doing this this long and then to feel like, ‘Oh, this is going to be fun!’ — that’s pretty great.”

For lapsed or frustrated viewers, Grahn has words of great encouragement: “I think there’s every reason for people to be encouraged. I just feel that really positive things are happening at General Hospital and that it’s going to be fun for people to watch. I think he and Elizabeth are a great team.”

And as for the actress’s current tale, which has seen Alexis gain two new bosses in the forms of Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) and Nina (Cynthia Watros), Granh muses, “I love Cynthia and working with Cynthia and of course, I love working with James. Clearly, Nina and Alexis are polar opposites and have nothing in common, so [working together] is not gonna go well! There’s no commonality there, other than that in real life, we adore each other. But that leads to some fun stuff, and she gives as good as she gets. It’s a good mismatch; it’s good when you have two people with contrasting ideology.”

What are your thoughts on the upcoming regime change? What stories do you hope the new writers will tackle? What characters should be front and center? Sound off in the comments section below.

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