ABC’s “General Hospital” marks its 60th anniversary this week, making it the longest-running scripted show currently in production in the United States.
, Rebecca Herbst, Laura Wright and Chad Duell, for example — who are in front-burner stories. The soap regularly features storylines with its newer cast, including Tabyana Ali, Nicholas Chavez and Evan Hofer.
VALENTINI: The Quartermaine living room just seemed very old . They are a very wealthy family... People redo their living rooms and people redo their kitchens. These are places that legitimize and help to authenticate the characters in the world that they live in. And I think when the characters aren’t in the right location, it detracts, and it compromises their integrity. When you see Sonny in his cool penthouse, that speaks to the character.
VAN ETTEN: There’s also an X factor in there. We have the best casting director in the business, Mark Teschner. He’ll just unearth someone and especially if it’s a younger person, he’ll bring this person to Frank’s attention. Frank may look at the canvas as a whole and say, ‘We have a 6-year-old character who doesn’t necessarily fulfill a real purpose except to be this person’s child. Maybe if by aging them to 12 with this younger actor that Mark has found, we can get more story.
VAN ETTEN: This is me speaking for me, not the writers. I personally believe you shouldn’t let adherence to continuity get in the way of a really good story. You don’t want it to be something that completely conflicts with a character’s 40 years of history, but if you can find a little bit of wiggle room, if you can justify why something that happened back in 1979 might today be viewed through a different lens and therefore make a current story work, I can justify that.
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