GH: Actress Fills in while Soap Vet has Surgery

[John]

According to the soap Hoppers Forum it looks like GH will be seeing a new but temp Alexis Davis soon.

 STEPHANIE ERB

GENERAL HOSPITAL    Alexis (Davidovich) Davis Jacks Lansing Jerrome  2022 (Temporary)                   AKA     Dobson        AKA   Natasha Alexandra Mikkosovna Cassadine

 

I hope Nancy is Okay

 

GH has had the most temp recasts since COVID 19 began. It just reminds me that Daytime soaps are Repertory Theater for Television & stand in's are necessity at times.

Edited March 27, 2022 by John

[janea4old]

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Stephanie Erb from her instagram March 22, 2022
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbaadgrroRw/

[John]

Well Hope she recovers quick. That surgery sounds painful

Thanks for the link @janea4old

Edited March 27, 2022 by John

[Darn]

What is the surgery?

[John]

Spinal

[Darn]

Thanks. I'm gonna google Nancy Lee Grahn because this post is telling us nothing...

[John]

[Faulkner]

GH has had a lot of temps recently. 

[janea4old]

 

Edited March 27, 2022 by janea4old

[janea4old]

 

 

 

comparing with screenshot of NLG from 3/24/2022 eppy.

Edited March 27, 2022 by janea4old

[Taoboi]

May she get well soon. 

[DRW50]

I wonder where Susan Diol is now.

As someone who is fascinated by temp recasting, the number of temps the last two years on GH has been astounding, and something worth studying (the differences in performance, and so on).

[j swift]

Wouldn't it be interesting in these modern times to have temp recasts using BIPOC actors?

Soap audiences are willing to suspend our disbelief in all sorts of ways.  Why not try an API Alexis for a few days, or a Black Monica?  It wouldn't effect the plot and the diversity would be appreciated.

Edited March 30, 2022 by j swift

[DRW50]

Most of the soap fans who are left would never go for it. I would not be surprised if the actors involved got death threats, to be honest. Considering some GH actors did get death threats it's not very out of the question.

[Michael]

Interesting idea in theory, and certainly not impossible. I do see two potential issues:

1) It's confusing to cast, say, a Black woman as Alexis and then see her with any of Alexis's three very clearly white daughters. Obviously Black people have white children, and vice-versa, but it could create an entirely different context for those relationships.

2) A Black Monica Quartermaine would be a Black woman who became a doctor in the 1970s, which is a very different backstory than a white woman who had the privilege of being white, especially in the "old days" but even up until now.

Not that soaps even write this context for 95% of their BIPOC characters, though they're getting better at it, but I do think it adds a layer to the characters that would be neither intended nor properly explored. 

I do think it's an idea worthy of some exploring, though!