GH: Laura Wright

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Without comparing her to Sarah and Tamara, I still feel other than the travesty that was Jennifer Bransford, Wright is still the weakest actress to take on that role of Carly. There's just no nuance or subtext to her performances, she's very one-note. I, for one of the few times, felt something for her last week though. However, she degraded back to where she was this week. She's just too over the top and chews too much scenery, long-term subtlety is just not her forte. She's just missing that special X factor that other and much better actresses have, IMO. She's not the worst actress in the world, but she's no where close to being the best.

[Kendall]

TB is a okay Actress but nothing Special. LW was never my Favorite Actress but I would admit that she is doing a GREAT job since Carly's Miscarriage.

[JackPeyton]

I love wright, for various reasons. I do thinks he is a damn good actress and does the best she can with the role of carly. Carly is not written like she was when Sarah or even Tamara were in the role.

Yes, LW plays her OTT, but isnt the way its written?

This week so far as well as last shows how great LW can be when givwn something to play aside from OTT.

[Laurie]

I think Laura has been, doing a great job with this storyline. She has moved me numerous times

[Harmony233]

I really don't have a problem with LW. Its the Carly character I can't stand so I have a hard time feeling sypathy for Carly no matter who plays her but the Jason obession disgusts me since Jason is also in the mob. I really haven't felt for any of these characters.I'm already tired of the mob storyline. I would respect Carly more if she threw both Jason and Sonny out of her kids lives probally an unpopular opinon.

[Cat]

I don't usually like LW as Carly but I'll give her props here. Her scenes in the hospital with Michael feel like a mom worrying over her comatose son to me. That silent look of anger and disbelief she gave Lulu last week was brilliant. When LW dials it down a few notches, she is far more effective.

However, GH almost blew it for her when they had Sarah Brown hovering over Michael on Friday. I wondered why they would show us something which would immediately trigger memories of SBr as Carly and Michael's mom.

Also? The day this Tragic Event hit Port Charles, Carly was being a big old bitch to Jax... and dumping her pwecious little boys with the nanny so that she could strut around Metro Court feeling important. Let's not forget she was wasting time she could have spent with her beloved family

1. begging Jason to believe that she and he are "soulmates,"

2. scheming with ShrewLu to get Maxie out of her job and BitchFace in it,

3. yelling at Kate who just got over a bullet wound perpetrated by now-brain-dead son.

Yeah. Not much sympathy here for Cujo.

[Noel]

Yep- I was scratching my head there for a minute because she was one of the leading actresses on that show and she was always trying for that Lead Actress in a Drama Series when she played Cassie Layne- the slut.

[R Sinclair]

Exactly. Carly was written rough around the edges, carrying old childhood wounds of inferiority with an abandonment complex. She lashed out, plotted and schemed out of a strong desire to prove that she was worthy of respect and the finer things in life -- trying to prove it more to herself than to anybody else.

LW's Carly is written as a spoiled little brat who thinks life is a perpetual high school to fit LW's limited portrayal. Jason and Sonny are the star jocks in school, she's the head cheerleader and homecoming queen, Jax is her rich boyfriend that drives the nice Mercedes to school and nobody else is allowed to even think they're worthy of being a part of their dysfunctional clique. If anybody does dare to enter into the clique, Carly will sneer and snarl and ghetto-neck-roll the hell out of head, always letting it be known that they're not worthy to be a part of their mega fabulous group. While it's not necessarly untrue -- Carly does feel that way somewhat -- it's the portrayal that bothers me. Instead of seeming as if Carly's finally found a group of people she loves and that loves her, and she finally found a place to belong after feeling like an outsider all her life and doesn't want anyone to jeopardize that... which is what I believe is more truthful to the character, LW's Carly is just a spoiled little queen of everything who's deciding who can come to her Super Sweet 16 party, and who can't... just so she can feel special.

That's the trick with acting and portraying soap characters. Everything in soaps is over the top. There mere fact that these women wake up in full hair and makeup and wear six in heels in prison is over the top. The trick is to make it believable as an actor -- not cartoonish.

Constance Towers as Helena Cassadine, for example. Helena, in the hands of any other actress, would be nothing but a Snidely Whiplash cartoonish character because Helena is incredibly over the top. But Constance Towers plays the role with a touch of class, a touch of elegance, and never manages to speak above a whisper even when Helena's royally pissed.

Over the top doesn't mean you have to shriek, scream and chew up every bit of scenery around you.

[DevotedToAMC]

I am really liking her stuff as well...Laura Wright is definitely up there with Tamara Braun on portraying Carly with the right notes

[JackPeyton]

i dont think that char's waking up in full hair and makeup is over the top. but i see what you are saying.

my thing is i find it obvious that GH WANTS carly this way. LW is an actress, hired for a role. she is to do her job the way they want it done. sure she could take a stand and stick up for the char and what she feels should be done - but isnt the main reason Sarah & Tams both left? a lot of actors get fired for that.

with these scens when carly has been written like a nomral human, LW has acted it sooo perfectly.

[Cat]

R Sinclair's post has made me miss Constance Towers!

[DevotedToAMC]

Constance is great....well I am off to lunch so I will be back in about an hour and a half to dish soaps and anything else!

[Darn]

She needs some voice modulation. "MY SON IS IN A COMA, SONNY/JASON/STRANGER I DON'T KNOW! COMA, COMA, COMA, EYEROLL, ELIZABTEH, GRRR." is not acting. Yes, yes, we know, Carly is a Strong Black Woman but how about she have some layers other than entitled and perpetually premenstrual?

Only on GH could a kid in a coma solicit practically no sympathy from the audience. Audience being me. And me being I don't give a f*ck if Michael ever wakes up.

[Harmony233]

I thought I was the only one. I'm already tired of this story. It doesn't help that I loathe Carly too but I've tried to feel sypathy for her but I can't.

[tina m]

Her scenes for the past week or so have absoutely captivated my attention. She's AMAZING. She better win some type of Emmy award for all of this, that's all I have to say...