Thanks for the tag! That whole time period was apparently very chaotic. Monty had said what she said about Genie and it got back to her, so she quit in anger. She then had regrets apparently and Monty also felt bad, and they had the conversation about Monty cleaning up the drugs on set.
But from what I have read they may have thought about recasting her, and decided it just would not fly while they were in the middle of doing it. The story was nebulous, they weren’t even sure that Genie wouldn’t change her mind and try to come back. I don’t think there was even much more than a sketch of an idea for Jackie other than they wanted Demi. That also kind of shows in what Stone says. They were casting for type, like old Hollywood, and didn’t always have much of a fully defined story. Being told she had no mystery totally sounds like the GH of the era to me.
Monty was moving away from recasting, clearly felt that was tied to the old fashioned soapy things she wanted to get away from. Heather Webber was the last main character recast that I can remember from Monty’s entire first stint. After that she just didn’t do it back then. Maybe even thinking about doing it with Laura soured her so much she didn’t really try again, except as a threat to Jack Wagner.
Based on her Soapy interview I think Eileen Davidson was auditioning for GH around the same time and could also have been going for the same parts. Although her casting director was a man.
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