http://www.tvinsider.com/article/28817/exclusive-exit-interview-anthony-geary-leaves-general-hospital-with-all-guns-blazing/

So Luke just goes off into the fog and his last scene is with Sonny.

Like what he said about the exit story. It was ridiculous.

RC is gonna hate him for this interview, I don't think he believes he'll be writing the show much longer since when they ask him if he would come back he doesn't know who would be writing or where the show would be. LOL

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by jjjg

Oh Ron is going to throw the biggest of bitch fits about this interview.

I cannot believe that he never spoke to Tony.

It was ill-conceived, cheesy and showed a lack of imagination.

Being in a part of the industry where an actor’s resume is less important than how he looks with his shirt off or how many Facebook followers he has. That is abhorrent to me, and I think that’s part of why there is so little respect for us. If you don’t work out at the gym, they’ll replace you, because there’s always somebody with bigger pecs or someone whose Twitter account is more active. Or if you speak truth to power, you are replaced because you are considered a problem. Again, I feel bad for the young ones. They don’t have a clue how to survive in this rat-infested jungle.

He has 0 chit to give and I love it. Go the hell off Anthony!

Acting is an interpretive art and that’s really forgotten on our show, where the actors are expected to be slavishly devoted to the stage directions in the script. I get scripts where I’m literally told where to take a deep breath and what line to cry on and when to turn my body. Sometimes the writer’s stage directions are longer than the scenes themselves. The great playwrights don’t do that. They trust their material. They don’t feel the need to tell actors how they’re supposed to be feeling at every moment. There’s a mistrust of actors on our show, as if we’re going to misunderstand the material. To be told to weep on a certain line is absurd. I don’t know when the hell I’m going to weep, if I weep at all, until I’m actually playing the scene. You don’t plan that s—t out! In all modesty, Jane Elliot [Tracy] and I have 90 years of professional acting experience between us and for us to be handed a scene where we are told how to read every line is insulting. Now, she and I will just laugh it off and get on with the damn scene, but I feel bad for the younger ones because it can thwart any creative moments they might have. Any real moments. We should be spontaneous and thinking on our feet, not acting by rote. I love actors. I love doing a scene with someone who throws me a curveball. I love the process and have fought for it always. If you must write this way, then go write a novel. In a novel, the author tells the readers everything a character is thinking and feeling and doing. But not in theater or film or TV. No, that’s just weak writing.

Wow, no wonder the acting is so atrocious and stilted now. Did ReRon and Frank do this at OLTL too? This is really terrible.

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by detroitpiston

SPILL THAT TEA, GEARY!!! SPILL IT! I am glad he is gone but this exit interview... YAAAAAAAS.

Trashing and throwing shade at the IIC, the stuff he revealed about the scripts (which explains SO much about the horrible acting), Ron never having spoken to him... WOW. GH is an even bigger cesspool than we could ever imagine, even if we suspect atrocities. It shows on screen.

I still don't think actors have any place contractually dictating dialogue/story but I actually respect the fact that he passed on money for it.

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by YRBB

Wow! I am going to have to read that.

Go Geary! Tell that truth

I love what Wendy Riche said to Tony: “I’ve got a collection of balls in my office, and yours are going up on the wall.

No surprise Geary has no respect for her though, she seemed to challenge his authority, whereas Monty, Phelps, and lastly Valentini fed into his bad habits.

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by BetterForgotten

I'm glad Tony is gone, but wow what an exit interview. The part about the scripts and being told when to cry and stuff. I wonder if the other soaps are like that? Is that a new standard now or just a Ron thing?

The interview was very disrespectful to Ron. I don't like how Ron writes either, but I thought it was very unclassy what Geary said. Meanwhile, he couldn't stop gushing about Frank. Gee, I wonder why Tony got his way? Frank caved.

WOW!!! Suck on that, Ron!

He gave no f-cks and straight up DECIMATED Ronald in that; didn't even utter his name, just kept referring to him as "the writer." LMAO!

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by AllMyDaysatGH

Jane remains the most underused genius in daytime television, and that’s such a mystery to me. I think they’re being foolish not to let her lead GH, make her the head of the mafia or something. It’s such a waste of a great character, a great legacy and a fabulous actress.

I totally agree with this part.

YASSSSSS to Geary DECIMATING Ron's sh!t writing on his last story, the actors being told how to act, and calling him out on being unfriendly and unprofessional, to his face and on social media. Praise the lawd!

Now can we get Wendy Riche back??

I don't really want to root for anyone here, because Tony is wrong about the contemporary Luke in many ways, and he's let his own latter-day issues cloud his previously sterling judgment. As bad as the show is, and it is very bad for reasons that have nothing to do with Tony - he has also blocked them on fixing Luke. That being said, he is right about the story being very poorly done. It might have been less so if he'd let them do more of what they wanted (Luke and Laura, etc), and Tony should be held accountable for the many roadblocks he's thrown up over the last several years. At the same time, no one forced RC to have to rush this [!@#$%^&*] out after weeks and months of Franco, Nina, Ric, Madeline, et al, and a lot of this mess is simply attributable to RC and FV's long-standing erosion in quality control.

As for the comment about he and JJ rewriting their scenes, that does not surprise me. Anyone could see those excellent scenes - which ran longer than Frank's usual 30-70 seconds in deference to them, and felt like real GH again - did not come from the current writing staff. Which says a lot about how fucked the whole operation has become.

That being said, even if Frank is TG's complete enabler and I suspect he is, Ron kind of deserves this at this point:

I think the problems were always more with the writer than with Frank, although the writer and I have never spoken.

And this is also correct:

We used to have qualified publicity people who would respond to that sort of thing. Now you have actors and producers and writers going directly to the audience to defend themselves which is, if nothing else, without dignity. I just don’t see any good coming from it.

His story about Liz Taylor and Natalie Wood was also very touching.

Edited July 20, 201510 yr by Vee