GH: Legacy role allegedly being recast

[DRW50]

That's one of my issues as well, although that is not Garrett's fault - so much damage was done to the canvas by trying to recreate a character who even by that point had run out of storyline.

I haven't seen him in recent years, so maybe he would fit the part. I just hope the writing is worthwhile, as we are seeing with Lulu that a great casting choice still can't overcome limited scripts.

What do you think of him?

Edited April 9 by DRW50

[Liberty City]

He wasn't necessarily bad, but he also was not my favourite by far.

[janea4old]

I agree that Jesse Lee Sofer would never do soaps again, but ... After leaving Chicago PD, he was hired as a new lead actor on FBI: International, but it was just cancelled a few months later.  He'll likely land in yet another Dick Wolf show.

I have to say FBI: International was terrible this past year, and Jesse wasn't good in the role.  Not sure if it was the writers or him, but his character doesn't have the nuances that the rest of the characters in the ensemble have.  His character is just grumpy and entitled and annoying, yet they want us to see him as a hero. Ugh.

[DRW50]

Thanks.

I hope they won't just go with another actor because he was on Y&R or B&B. I want someone new. 

[Soapsuds]

How about Mick? He's five years younger than Duell. He would be reunited with Maura.

 

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[Cheap21]

If this was DAYS, they'd have hired back the guy that played Dillon to be Michael

[Taoboi]

Wouldn't mind that, but true.

[Soapsuds]

He's three years older than Chad Duell.

[Liberty City]

I'd love someone new to daytime, although, given Valentini's track record for picking "new" talent, it does worry me we'll get the same look of other "new" characters.

[Taoboi]

And perfect look, but like you said...not coming back to daytime.

[Errol]

Which, IMO, is one of the main reasons Chad left the show. He's not getting any younger, and if he ever dreams of making the big bucks in Hollywood, he needs to ditch the soap baggage.

It's unfortunate for me to even say that since I love this genre so much, but let's be real, the pay is just above average compared to the pay for a school teacher, not to mention the perks of fewer work hours and the ability to spend more time with family.

Outside of that, an actor who ever wants to get the gigs offered by Dick Wolf, the Russo Brothers, Marvel, DC, et al., can't be attached to a soap. That's why Nicholas Alexander Chavez wiped GH from his resume. Future jobs will reference Monsters and I Know What You Did Last Summer, among other projects he's attached to, and how he's worked for Ryan Murphy, a mega producer at Disney (and at one point Netflix).

[DRW50]

Chavez is not doing anything others haven't done, but he will still probably have more passionate fans from GH than he will elsewhere - it feels like the Murphy buzz is already fading for him (not helped by so much of it being wrapped up in titillation over incestuous elements than praise for his work).

If Duell did leave for career reasons, he should have left a decade ago. He's not going to be able to shake the show and he's aged out of some of the roles he could have played.

Edited April 9 by DRW50

[Antoyne]

Sign me up for this. Though I eventually accepted CD. I always much preferred Drew.

[slick jones]

Duell was phoning it in for a while, and strandng him for all that time with the charisma- less Katelyn McMullen did him no favors.

Searching for someone that hasn't already appeared in daytime (looking at the forner Noahs, Theos and Kyles of Y&R, Thomas of B&B, Chandlr and Company from Days), is the best way to go. No former friends of #firefrank "In -- Lenny Platt as Michael". Gag. 

Finding an actor that can play the spark of being a Spencer, fit in with the Quarrelsome Quartermaines  and the darkness from Sonny, won't be easy. but with so many shows currently getting cancelled from all of the streaming series as well as networks, hopefully we don't get another Evan Hofer.

[AbcNbc247]

Maybe a Morgan recast?