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‘General Hospital’s’ Laura Wright Talks on Her Daytime Emmy Lead Actress Nomination and Her Scenes with Steve Burton and Honoring Jackie Zeman
This week, the 52nd annual Daytime Emmys will be handed out on Friday, October 17 in ceremonies emanating from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena California, and will be streamed live beginning at 7pm ET/4pm PT via watch.theemmys.tv and The Emmys app.
To get you ready for Daytime’s biggest night of the year, Michael Fairman TV will spotlight some of the nominees and our exclusive conversations with them, more can be found by watching the Michael Fairman Channel’s 11th annual Daytime Emmy nominations special which was a live celebration with this year’s nominees shortly after they found out they were going for gold in 2025.
Vying for the Lead Actress prize finds a crowded field of six actress including: Sharon Case (Sharon), Michelle Stafford (Phyllis), Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea) and Eileen Davidson (Ashley) from The Young and the Restless, Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis) and Laura Wright (Carly) from General Hospital.

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Laura Wright told us about how she chose her nominated reel and the scenes in which she was most proud of that landed her in the top 6 as voted on by her peers. Wright is a previous Daytime Emmy Lead Actress winner having taken home the gold statuette back in 2011.
ON CHOOSING HER REEL
“It’s always so daunting and so nerve-wracking to create your reel,” explained Laura. “I didn’t want to come up with 15 minutes because the poor people that have to watch all the nominees. When I vote. I’m like, ‘That better be the best 15 minutes of my life!’ I ended up putting together a nine-minute reel and I remembered this show with Steve Burton (Jason). It was a show where Jason thought he was free of working for the FBI and Jagger Cates (Adam J. Harrington) comes and threatened him again and said he had to go back under cover and leave town. The scene was in Jason’s room. I remember I was in a white blouse, and it was Carly telling him he can’t go, and she is going to turn herself in for insider trading, because there was no way, Carly was going to let Jason leave again.”

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Laura added, “The scenes were back and forth between the two of us, emotionally. I was kind of blown away by it, because I remember shooting those scenes and we were so tired. It was around the Emmys last year, and we were just exhausted. We were just raw and available, and I fell in love with it. The episode had every single thing that I am proud of who I am as an actor.”
“I can be very critical on my work, but I could just submit this and be a hundred percent proud of whether I’m nominated or not,” said the soap veteran. “I just felt like that particular episode showed w what I do for a living and, and the best of what I can do.”
HONORING JACKIE ZEMAN
General Hospital fans will recall that 2024 kicked-off on a somber note when the show honored the late Jackie Zeman after killing-off the beloved character of Nurse Bobbie Spencer, Carly’s mom. GH delivered two emotionally-packed episodes as part of her memorial. Laura Wright explained that she wanted to pay homage to the iconic star and her on-screen mom in her Emmy reel.

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“There’s a little bit of Bobbie’s death at the beginning of the reel as I really want to honor Jackie. There was a flashback of me and Jackie, and that was really important to me to have her face seen in my reel. We lost her so suddenly. Losing anyone anyway isn’t easy, and I really wanted Jackie’s spirit with me. I knew I wanted to use the Bobbie material, but I didn’t want it to be all crying. Bobbie’s death was really amazing, and it was well written, and the cast that I worked were so great.” Wright also clarified, she had scenes with Cameron Mathison (Drew) in her reel, where Drew was listening and hugging Carly during the loss of her mom.
WHY IT’S ON-SCREEN MAGIC IN SCENES WITH STEVE BURTON
One of the all-time best ‘ride or die’ friendships in daytime television history has been that of Carly and Jason who for years, and through the different iterations of Carly, have remained each others closest ally, confidants, and at times, even more. Laura Wright revealed how in synch she and her co-star Steve Burton are off-screen, that make Carly and Jason so special on-screen.

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“It’s not work with Steve and it’s similar with Maurice Benard (Sonny, GH). We just kind of lean into each other. Steve and I rehearse and if there’s something we want to tweak or change, or if there’s something we want to bring even more to it, we discuss it. There’s a wisdom to Steve now (in this stage of his career) that is different. I hope that I carry that as well. Steve is so respected and he hands that right back to other people.”
Laura also shared, “Jason and Carly have an incredible friendship that is so steeped in love that allows us to have this unique connection in the story of, ‘I’ve got your back no matter what,’ and then also allows for great complications in any other relationships that they have.”
WHAT WILL CARLY DO TO BRENNAN WHEN SHE FINDS OUT ABOUT JOSSLYN?
Carly still has no idea that the current love of her life, WSB Port Charles bureau chief, Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna), secretly recruited her daughter, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) to be a WSB agent, nor does she know that Josslyn shot and killed Cyrus Renault (Jeff Kober), and Jack helped her cover it up!

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Laura weighed-in on what will happen when the truth comes out: “I think her head pops off her body. She’s going to lose her s**t, and Jason’s going to be like ‘I told you so,’ and Lucas (Van Hansis) is going to be ‘I told you so!'”
So, what do you think about the selection of scenes on Laura’s Daytime Emmy Lead Actress reel? Do you enjoy the chemistry on-screen between Laura and Steve Burton? Ready for what might happen when Carly finds out about Josslyn and Cyrus and Brennan’s part in all of this? Share your thoughts via the comment section below. For more on this year’s Daytime Emmy nominations, check out the Michael Fairman Channel’s livestream with the nominees below.
Oh God. Carly again. Enough of the hard sale. I am not even sure why she was nominated.
LW got nominated solely for the Bobbie memorial scenes (way back in Jan 2024).
NLG should win this category for her outstanding work around Sam’s death.
I think Laura Wright is fabulous.
Why weren’t the far superior Cynthia Watros or Jane Elliot nominated? Laura Wright is just an okay soap actress who had just a meh year. And why must we be subjected yet again to her analyzing her character’s storylines? We had an entire week without Carly during Monica’s memorial and it was nice. I hope Nancy Grahn gets the Emmy her for her gut wrenching portrayal of a mother grieving the loss of her daughter. She deserves it.
Jane rarely ever submits for consideration. If she did, it would be in the supporting category.
As these awards are for calendar year 2024,
Watros’ Nina didn’t figure as prominently in story. She definitely deserves a 2025 nomination.
With all due respect, he was interviewing people nominated for Emmys. Maybe you would know that if you bothered reading the post.
Gird your loins, Jack Brennan. The wrath of Carly Spencer is God’s way of Cutting you down.
My only complaint about Carly is we don’t get enough of her! Thank God for Laura Wright giving us a thorough account of what is going on with her character. Carly is the sun and all of the other characters orbit around her. It’s Carly’s World, not General Hospital!
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Reach an Impasse; Is This the End of Their Relationship?

On the Friday, September 11 episode of General Hospital, Jason (Steve Burton) and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship becomes strained to potentially the point of no return.
Things take a turn when an unglued Britt having been traumatized by almost being killed by Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) asks Jason to back her up with the PCPD when she reports Anna for attempted murder.
However, Jason told Britt, he can’t. Jason shares that he does not believe Anna would have gone through with shooting her. Therefore, Britt was not in any real imminent danger. Britt is flabbergasted and hurt that Jason is refusing to tell the police what he actually witnessed for himself on Mount Emerson.

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BRITT WANTS BACK UP FROM JASON
Jason counters that he can’t believe that Britt would want Anna punished. or sent to prison, or a mental facility after the trauma she endured while being locked up and mentally tortured while at Wyndemere.
He asks Britt, “How could you even say that you want her locked up or prosecuted for what she did when you knew she was being held prisoner and you did nothing to save her?” Britt is stunned by Jason’s response.
Coming up, official General Hospital spoilers share that on the upcoming Monday, September 14 episode, Jason confides in Carly (Laura Wright), while Britt is stung. In the video preview that aired at the end of the Friday, September 11 episode for this coming Monday, Britt says to Jason, “You don’t believe me. Do you?”
General Hospital head scribes, Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte previously teased in their fall preview of the soap, “Britt and Jason have come a long way and fought a lot of enemies to be together. But the most stubborn obstacle to their happiness isn’t without, it’s within. Decisions Britt made to stay alive while under Cullum’s thumb will come back to haunt her and may prove too difficult for this unlikely couple to survive.”
So, what do you think will happen? Will Jason and Britt break-up over Britt’s lies and Jason’s unwillingness to report Anna’s crime against her? Do you want Jason and Britt to go their separate ways? If they do, will Britt become romantically involved with Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) ? If so, who do you pair Jason with? Anyone? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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Kearran Giovanni Debuts on ‘General Hospital’ as Anna Devane’s New Therapist

If Anna Devane’s (Finola Hughes) new therapist on General Hospital looks familiar to you, it’s because actress Kearran Giovanni, who plays Dr. Nichols, previously played a doctor on One Life to Live!.
Viewers tuning-in to the Thursday, September 10 episode of GH got their first look at Dr. Nichols who has been brought in to help Anna recover from her PTSD and trauma following the reveal that she has been suffering from a break in reality since before being put in mental health facility in France, after being gaslighted by Cullum and company earlier in the year.
One Life to Live fans will recall that Kearran Giovanni played Dr. Vivian Wright in 2009, and it was then she first worked with current General Hospital EP, Frank Valentini, who at the time was at the helm in Llanview.

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WHERE ELSE HAVE YOU SEEN KEARRAN GIOVANNI?
Giovanni appeared on OLTL in the recurring role through 2012 and in the final ABC episode of the beloved series was the the ob/gyn who delivered Destiny Evans (Shenell Edmonds) and Matthew Buchanan’s (Eddie Alderson) baby into the world, whom they named Drew Buchanan II after Bo Buchanan’s (Robert S, Woods) late son. In addition, Vivian has been dating Shaun Evans (Sean Ringgold).
In addition to One Life to Love, Giovanni has very impressive credits having appeared in numerous TV series and motion pictures including starring in the TNT drama Major Crimes from 2012-18, ABC’s Designated Survivor 2017-19, the CW’s Black Lightning from 2019-20. Most recently, Giovanni appeared on the Fox series, The Resident and has a recurring role on the CW’s crime series, Walker from 202-2024.
HEALING ANNA
On today’s General Hospital, after Anna’s harrowing meltdown where she almost shot and killed Dr. Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) after seeing visions of “Peter August” (Wes Ramsey), Jason (Steve Burton) saved the day and talked Anna down from committing murder. Now, Dr. Nichols was introduced as a valuable staff member at the hospital. Although, this marked the first time in the history of the show we have heard of her character.
So, do you remember seeing Kearran Giovanni on One Life to Live? Happy to see that Anna may have a qualified therapist in charge of her healing, unless the doctor turns out to be not on the up and up? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section below.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Anna Breaks Down in Front of Jason and Britt After Shots Are Fired

The Wednesday, September 9 episode of General Hospital featured top-notch performances by Finola Hughes and Steve Burton, as Anna holds Jason and Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) at gunpoint on Mount Emerson.
Anna is not in her right mind as hallucinations of Peter (Wes Ramsey) overtake her, egging her on to shoot and kill Britt. Jason begs Anna to put down the gun, but it’s clear Anna is speaking to someone who is not there, but in a direction that is just past Britt.
Suddenly, Anna screams at Britt, “You’re just like your father!” Anna also tells Britt that she knew Britt was aware that she was locked up on Spoon Island and did nothing to save her. Britt turns to Jason and tells him she had no idea Anna was on the Island, “until Cullum showed up in Port Charles.” That declaration gave Jason pause.

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“PETER” TAKES A BULLET
Next, Anna is overcome with angst, filled with tears and screams out, “I won’t let you beat me!” She fires the gun where the imaginary Peter was standing, as Britt screams and Jason dove to cover her. Now completely shaken, Jason took the weapon from Anna and ordered Britt to leave the scene as Anna collapsed in Jason’s arms.
Jason was so concerned for Anna. She reveals she’s been seeing visions of Peter August since France. Jason shared his theory with Anna that she was manifesting her worst fears about Faison. However he knows deep down Anna would never have shot Britt. Jason promises to come back and clean up the area, but would take Anna home first.

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ANNA ADMITS TO EMMA SHE TRIED TO KILL BRITT
At Anna’s, Jason brings her in the front door as Emma is there. Jason tells Emma (Braedyn Bruner) he would like to return and spend the night. A confused and worried Emma get the full story from her grandmother.
Anna explains she tried to kill Britt and she is not as well as she was pretending to be in France. Cut to: Jason cleaning up the site of Anna’s plot against Britt on Mount Emerson. He moves over and finds bullet casings on the ground and examines one of them.
The story climax also signaled the end of the run for Wes Ramsey, who has been showing up on episodes over the last several months as Anna’s dark side conscience. Now that Anna was able to break the psychological hold visions of “Peter” had on her, it ends this latest return of Ramsey’s.
So, what did you think about the scenes between Anna and Jason? Do you think Jason and Britt’s relationship will come to an end now that seemingly Britt revealed she knew Anna was held captive after Cullum came to town? Glad to know Anna won’t be haunted by visions of Peter August anymore? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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