
Susan Lucci, once in a while, too she came down and did ARMY WIVES with us for a couple of episodes.” As for the possibility of reuniting on screen, she says, “I’m hop- ing! I mean, I think Michael and I really want to do some stuff together, so we’ll have to make a stink. I have seen him around I still talk with him and Darnell and Larry.

Knight (ex-Tad Martin, GH), is her castmate once again, which she calls “a very fun coincidence. While they have yet to share scenes, Delaney’s former AMC brother, Michael E. I hear there is going to be more in the future, from what the other actors are telling me, so I have to stay ready! That’s my job, is to stay ready.” Everybody was there all day long! So, it’s just different. “It’s definitely more pages per day than prime-time or on a film ! But, you know, I got back into it, and the way we shoot at GENERAL HOSPITAL is more in the sets, whereas way back when I was doing ALL MY CHILDREN, we were there all day long. She has also found it relatively easy to keep up with the show’s quick shooting pace and wrap her mind around daytime’s notorious gobs of dialogue. The first day I had a lot of support and help and it was great, and then the second day was just jumping right in.” But everybody was really welcoming from the get-go. But I got through it! I guess whenever you start something new, you feel a little, ‘Who are these people? How are we going to do it?’ Anything new that you walk into, you have to figure out how they’re shooting, where the cameras are, working with the directors. “I had a lot of helpers that day, you know, finding your way around the set, reading the way their call sheet is, which is different, masks - we all wear masks until we shoot, so everybody is wearing one, no matter what, so you’re not really seeing anybody’s faces in rehearsal that’s in your scenes. “I didn’t know where anything was, so I was asking for a lot of help,” she recalls.

While a return to soaps was “not necessarily” on her radar, Delaney - who followed up AMC with an Emmy-winning stint on NYPD BLUE, along with starring roles on CSI: MIAMI and ARMY WIVES, among other projects - says, “I always feel that it’s about the character and where you’re working and who you’re working with, and the producers, because the producers the show.” And thus far, she describes GH as “a lot of fun! I knew it would be fun, and it’s here in Los Angeles, and it just all worked out in a great way.”Īs did her first day on set, despite some understandable disorientation.
