Maurice Benard On GH: "I Actually Didn't Want To Do Another Soap"
General Hospital
thespian
chatted with
on what made him sign on with the popular sudser after his stint on
All My Children
.
WE LOVE SOAPS TV: In 1993 you took the role of Sonny on GH. How did that part come about? Did you want to do another soap at that point?
Maurice Benard: I actually didn't want to do another soap but I had run out of money! I was studying acting like crazy at that time. But GH came up so I went in and met with them. I didn't want to sign a long-term contract. There were two roles - Damian, a mob guy with a two year contract, and Sonny, the head of a night club which was a six month role. So, I said I liked Sonny because I liked the name and it was a short-term part.
Six months turned into seventeen years of being the smooth-talking mobster with dimples.
