The moment General Hospital fans have been waiting for has finally arrived. Lucky and Elizabeth met face-to-face at the end of the September 30 episode. Although they had a reunion during a prior dream sequence, they’re really in Port Charles now, and Lucky must face the consequences of his life choices.
Now He’s the Dad
Jonathan Jackson sat down with Soap Opera Digest to unpack what Lucky’s return means for him, Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst), and their son Aiden, who is now played by newcomer Colin Cassidy. Having first played Lucky when he was 11, Jackson fondly recalled the teachings of his on-screen dad, Anthony Geary (Luke), which continues to inform his performances to this day.
Jackson was thankful to have started as a kid on the show and now play an adult who has a growing child of his own. “It’s really a very unique and special thing,” he remarked of a medium where characters can literally grow up in real-time. Considering actors leaving a role has turned many soap opera fathers into deadbeat dads, Lucky’s got his work cut out for him in repairing their relationship.
The Many Layers of Lucky
When Lucky was a prisoner of Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and beaten within an inch of his life, he hallucinated seeing Elizabeth. This was the first time since 2015 that Jackson and Herbst played their characters together, and it was a portent of things to come. “It was kind of a way of us exploring some of the subtext,” he said, continuing, “even prior to doing the scenes where they met back in Port Charles.” (Find out where else you’ve seen Rota.)
Lucky and Elizabeth first met at Kelly’s Diner way back when and bumped into each other there this time. Of course, it’s been renamed Bobbie’s in honor of late GH star Jacklyn Zeman, who played Bobbie Spencer for several decades.
Noting the tension, awkwardness, and guilt that Lucky feels because of his absence, Jackson stated, “Those levels were fun to play.” He enjoyed playing the dichotomy of people who can have a good connection yet, “Unresolved tension [which] exists simultaneously, and having all those layers kind of happening at the same time! It seemed like there was something along the lines of that happening [in the Bobbie’s scenes].”
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