GH: Sunset Beach Actress Fills In

[janea4old]

 

Lots of actors (both major and minor characters) being replaced by temps during the past year and a half.

GH has a short tape-to-airdate gap.  It seems like, if an actor is unavailable for any reason (another gig elsewhere, an illness, a family crisis, whatever) - GH just keeps taping with a temp, or they write the character out of the scene.

When Kelly M was unavailable in January, they had one of her scenes cut (It was spoiled by the show and the cable guide that Sam would be in a scene with Drew and Scout on a specific day, but that scene didn't air.)  Then Sam's very next few episodes were filmed with Lindsay H. as the temp.  I guess they couldn't get LH in time for that one episode so they cut the scene?

When JPS was taping his other show, they put Valentin in the trunk of a car for a while.  It was odd that Valentin wasn't there for the takedown of Peter in Switzerland but JPS was busy, so they filmed without Valentin.

When Lindstrom was taping a movie in New York, they had another character say "sorry Kevin isn't here today, he had an emergency with a patient at the hospital" so he must have been written out of the scene.  They did seem to be building a Ryan/Esme storyline for a while, then it stalled - probably because Lindstrom was in New York and maybe they didn't want to use a temp for Ryan. Now Lindstrom is back and the Ryan storyline is back.