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Maxwell Caulfield Joins 'GH' in Surprise Soap Return: Det...

The 'Grease 2' star shares how Maura West and Nancy Lee Grahn helped in his daytime return after 30 years, and reflects on wife Juliet Mills' series 'Passions.'

Edited 20 hours ago20 hr by Liberty City

Oh wow - I had the biggest crush on him growing up LOL. I loved him on AMC even though his character by that point wasn't so loved.

I remember being nine years old and being obsessed with him as Myles Colby. He was gorgeous.

I'm very glad they talked about his RH role. I remember that (it helped that he was very hot) even as I had forgotten about his ill-fated AMC part!

I hope Frank can get a small part for Juliet Mills too.

Lovely to hear that Brook Kerr popped over to greet him.

Maxwell was also on Emmerdale for about a year. He wasn't great but the story was memorable.

Fascinating to see Grease 2 treated as a cult classic these days. I know they had a reunion at TCM's latest festival (needless to say Michelle Pfeiffer was not there).

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by DRW50

Caulfield has an interesting take on why his AMC role didn't work. I mean, I don't know whether the role was "jinxed" and that retelling Pierce's story from the beginning w/ Caulfield wasn't wise, or whether Pierce was just poorly written from the start, but I do think what happened BTS with Jim Fitzpatrick did derail plans to the point where I think AMC would've been better off just writing Pierce out (which they eventually did).

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Caulfield has an interesting take on why his AMC role didn't work. I mean, I don't know whether the role was "jinxed" and that retelling Pierce's story from the beginning w/ Caulfield wasn't wise, or whether Pierce was just poorly written from the start, but I do think what happened BTS with Jim Fitzpatrick did derail plans to the point where I think AMC would've been better off just writing Pierce out (which they eventually did).

I think he's right that the story was unnecessary, but he wasn't going to work even if they had tried another story. The character was a dud and he didn't really have strong chemistry with Julia Barr. I think the only good scene they had was their last, where they danced or something (I don't remember).

Fitzpatrick was incredibly charismatic and handsome, but even there, the character lost any purpose once they made Janet psycho again and paired him with Brooke.

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

The character was a dud and he didn't really have strong chemistry with Julia Barr.

Fitzpatrick was incredibly charismatic and handsome, but even there, the character lost any purpose once they made Janet psycho again and paired him with Brooke.

I agree, on both counts.

So his sister in law is turning 80 and he misses the celebration for a 1 day soap role. OK...

6 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

So his sister in law is turning 80 and he misses the celebration for a 1 day soap role. OK...

A paycheck is a paycheck..... 🤑

6 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

So his sister in law is turning 80 and he misses the celebration for a 1 day soap role. OK...

He is probably happy for the work, especially if it could lead to more.

Chris McKenna said on Twitter he was the one who wanted to meet Maxwell.

Chris L. McKenna on X: "The true story is- I was in the makeup chair and saw Ava, Alexis, and some guy I didn’t know doing a scene on the monitor. I heard the guy say one line and I stopped, turned around, curious, (because it was clear that was an experienced actor from just a few words) and said" / X

The true story is- I was in the makeup chair and saw Ava, Alexis, and some guy I didn’t know doing a scene on the monitor. I heard the guy say one line and I stopped, turned around, curious, (because it was clear that was an experienced actor from just a few words) and said “Who’s playing the maitre’d? He’s a good actor.” Some one said, “You ever see Empire Records?” And I jumped out of my chair- “That’s Maxwell Caulfield?!” And I ran to go meet him.