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How do you think?   It was a rumor going around for awhile and maybe had minor steam just to get Vanessa to think about returning.  I don't think Rebecca would be the worst choice ever, but I just don't think you can recast her back then or now.  The actress and the character are too intertwined and Brenda isn't THAT relevant to the canvas or core families that you need her before you need Vanessa.

LLC said she was in interviews.  Never heard about Alyssa Milano.  She's probably more expensive than Vanessa Marcil so that seems silly.

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Lisa also said she thinks they were never actually serious about the Brenda recast. And she's right. It was a feint to try to lure VM. It's never going to happen, ever.

FV (allegedly) tried to get Budig to be NuRobin after they kept stalling out the Robin story in the early 2010s (even though Kimberly repeatedly made herself available!). That would've gone over like the Tet Offensive, but for some reason there's one guy on GH Twitter who has been obsessed with it for years.

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Yup.  It's just a tactic to lure the actual actor you want back.  They aren't recasting Brenda or Robin ever.  That would go over like a lead balloon. 

I think Vanessa even said she would never return if she was recast and she was always in charge of that character until FV took over.  And even Frank isn't stupid or brave enough to try to recast Robin/Brenda.

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I think FV and Ron were actually cocky enough to try it with Robin at that point in the early-mid 2010s when they were hailed as the saviors of GH/all daytime and had been casting big names like Stafford, etc left and right. This was also after her initial return from the dead, around 2014-15. There was a fan contingent that was still high on them hiring anyone and everyone before the bottom fell out. But I do hope they were never serious.

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I couldn't even imagine a Robin recast and not Rebecca Budig.  Is that why she got the stupid role as Hayden?  RB is better suited to Brenda if we are talking about cocky moves, IMO.  I can't believe they were ever serious about recasting either one tbh.  

The only way I think you might have been able to sneak a Robin recast in was before KMc came back from the dead.  Ala Billy Miller/Jason.  So you could hire a Robin that had surgery/was held hostage/whatever and reverse it if the original became available.

Lol! Agreed.  Alyssa Milano seems to be doing fine, so I don't think she was ever seeking out being a daytime recast.

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I could maybe see it as a big bucks stunt casting and it wouldn't have worked.  I don't think Alyssa would have been interested though.  But Guza would never do that to his girl Vanessa because he always knew she would come back.  Frank doesn't give two craps about the character so he wouldn't do it either.   He's trying to figure out Michael Easton's 4th role.

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