General Hospital star Emma Samms “had no clue” she was the “the third attempt to find somebody for” her role of "Holly Sutton" in soap.
The 64-year-old actress, who is going to reprise her role in the popular soap in early September, shared with Variety in an interview that other A-listers were also considered before her to play the character of Sutton.
“I didn’t realise when I started that I was the third attempt to find somebody for a new romantic relationship for Luke,” she revealed to the outlet, talking about actor Tony Geary.
“They had tried really amazing people, like Janine Turner and Demi Moore. So I was sort of the last-ditch attempt in that regard.”
“But I had no clue, which is probably extremely valuable and helped me a lot,” Samms continued.
“I just came in sort of innocent, and ‘I’ll do the best I can’ sort of thing. And I just somehow got away with it. I was very fortunate.”
Samms also gushed about reuniting with Jonathon Jackson in the upcoming episodes, whom she has never directly shared the screen with, but considers it a “gift” to work with the five-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, all thanks to executive producer Frank Valentini.
“It’s such a gift that Frank has given me, working with Jonathan, who is, obviously, a very, very good actor,” she added.
“That’s undisputed — but he’s also really nice. And we have a very similar way of approaching the work, and we realized that that is because we were both trained by Tony Geary.”