General Hospital Spoilers: Steve Burton Reveals How Maurice Benard Helped Him Deal With Kelly Monaco’s Exit From GH
General Hospital Spoilers: Steve Burton Reveals How Maurice Benard Helped Him Deal With Kelly Monaco’s Exit From GH
General Hospital Spoilers reveal that Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) had some major issues dealing with Kelly Monaco (Sam McCall) departure from GH after 21 years , more than half of which she was his significant other. How did Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) help him through these last and very important scenes?
General Hospital Spoilers – Steve Burton Admits He Was Struggling
General Hospital spoilers reveal that Steve admits to struggling during these final scenes.
Steve said on his podcast, “I was really at a loss in the sense of I wasn’t sure how to play this. Obviously, we have a huge history. Obviously, we’ve worked together for a long time, so there was all of these things going on, but I didn’t have a clear vision.”
Steve turned to Maurice who was his long term mentor, Maurice Benard. Steve say he explained that he just didn’t know how to handle this. “Whatever happens in there is supposed to happen. And that’s it. You don’t have to force anything. Just let it work,” Benard told Burton knowing that he would get it right when the time came.
GH Spoilers – Sam McCall’s Exit Was Heartbreaking
Steve commends his co-stars on their goodbye scenes. Steve admits that these scenes were heartbreaking. “It was very sad because Kelly was obviously leaving, and then the emotion of the character passing and all these things, and I just thought everybody really did a wonderful job,” Steve told his podcast partner, Bradford Anderson (Damien Spinelli).
Jason also had to tell Spinelli and Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) about Sam’s untimely passing. Both were stunned because Sam was doing fine. Jason had to tell them before they heard it from someone else.
Spinelli and Sam were not only friends but one time PI partners as well. Unfortunately, Spinelli didn’t get to say goodbye to his Fair Samantha.
General Hospital Spoilers Spoilers – Steve Burton Shot His Scenes Before Sam McCall’s Death
“I had to shoot that stuff with her first and then go backward because we shot everything out of order, so those are my first scenes,” he said. “It was really interesting to have gotten all that emotion out and then have to go back. I know people in movies do this all the time, but as an actor, it’s not your favorite thing to do.”
Burton said it was hard to get all of his emotions out and then having to shoot the scenes where he realized something was wrong and sending, the kids to Bobbie’s until he figured it all out.
Later Jason had to tell not only his son but his niece that their mother had died. The scenes with the kids were very emotional as well. However, most fan agree that Jason’s goodbye to Sam was true to who Jason and Sam were and will always be.