The “General Hospital” in ABC will celebrate the 62nd anniversary Tuesday 1 AprilThe episode of that day will honor one of the most famous characters in the show, Dr. Monica Quarten, who was filmed by the late Leslie Charleson Since 1977.
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While the episode was written before the death of Charleson on January 12, 2025, at the age of 79, the introduction of the Dr. Monica Quartermaine Cardiac will devote part of the site of the imaginary general hospital for her personality.
“I felt overwhelmed.” Jenny Francis (Laura Collins) in a recent interview published in the last issue of Television Directory MagazineDiscuss the role of her prominent personality in the episode. “It is always good when they admit the fact that I am a kind of ancient here; I am historic. I love to feel it.”
While the producers were hoping that Charleson would be able to attend the dedication on the air when he was initially conceived, these plans were suspended after her death.
According to what was reported, the show is planning to commemorate the character in the arc of a future story where it is said that the show has no plans to reformulate the role.
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Francis recalls that she honored her late colleague and noticed how they joined the show in the same year: “When I was a child and went out, she was always nice with me.”
“Most of us came and went, including. Tony [Geary, ex-Luke Spencer] He came and went. But Leslie was there without stopping. It was a real column for this show and for this hospital, which is beautiful. I am happy that they did this in her honor. I think it’s beautiful. “
The text of the episode is filled with gestures to the date of the show and is characterized by an influential honor from Laura. “I am proud to deliver speeches, because there is a lot of truth in it and how I feel about this place and how I feel about people in it,” Francis shared, calibrating the episode.
When talking about history, Francis revealed that things were not always happy during her period of soap because she had some highlands and declines, whether on the screen or behind the scenes.
“It is a mixed bag, but instead of crushing it by some of the bad parts that have happened, I feel that I managed to work through it and stand over it in a victorious way, and it seems that winning for me,” she says about the experience nearly 50 years since it appeared for the first time in the soap.
