GH’s Adam Huss Reveals the Emotional Backstory to Nikolas and Ava’s Recent Scenes

Adam Huss popped back up as Nikolas on General Hospital this week when Ava came to visit her ex at Pentonville prison, his current home. Nik is vulnerable to Ms. Jerome and a real-life event in Huss’s life made the scenes even more emotional. The actor chatted with Soap Hub about Ava and Nikolas’s dynamic.

Heaven Sent

“My grandma had passed away the day before I shot those scenes,” Huss shares with Soap Hub. “I’d just learned about it and the last thing on my mind was going to work. I wanted to get home [to the east coast] so badly. Of course, I love being on General Hospital and my grandma loved it, too.”

In fact, Huss says his grandmother would share news of her actor grandson being on GH with her pals at her local library. “She’d put me on the phone with some of them,” Huss warmly recalls.

Thankfully, Huss’s shooting schedule didn’t overlap with his grandmother’s memorial. “I didn’t have to miss anything,” he says. “It all worked out. I give that up to a higher power. I’m grateful.”

Huss says that Maura West, who plays Ava, is as compassionate as she is talented. “She couldn’t have been more open, sweet, and kind about my loss,” Huss shares. “She was courteous and kind. Maura gave me some moments to share and then, we focused on the work and what we had to do.”

West delivered the drama when Ava discovered Nikolas’s fling with Esme (Avery Kristen Pohl) however, as time has passed, she apparently is not quite as furious with her ex as she once was. In fact, the two shared some confidences during her last visit.

“At first, I was like, ‘Does Nikolas want to hear about Ava and Sonny [Maurice Benard]?'” Huss muses. “But then I got some nice guidance from Frank [Valentini, executive producer], who said — no matter what — you love her even though you’re going through all this other stuff. That was very helpful.”

West also offered some insights to make the scene sing. “She said, ‘[Ava and Nikolas] excite each other by talking about their capers,” Huss shares.

Stay tuned to see what the next development with Nikolas is. In the meantime, Huss is off to shoot The Wedding Belle in which he plays Jerome, one of two assistants to a wedding planner who has sworn off ever getting married herself. Watch for romance to blossom — but who ends up at the altar?

Huss says he also recently completed a role in the pilot for The Blvd., a new web series that stars Jordi Vilasuso (ex-Rey, Young and the Restless) and Vincent Irizarry (ex-Lujack/ex-Nick, Guiding Light). The setting for the show is a high-powered public relations firm in Los Angeles. “It’s kind of like where Melrose Place had advertising [read about the proposed Melrose Place revivial here], The Blvd. has p.r.,” Huss explains. “I play one of their star clients, Haven Hurst, who has some secrets.”