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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 290028" data-attributes="member: 27">Yeah, the idea of Esme's secret identity is over the top crazy, but it's a fun idea to mull over.  A more mainstream version might have her being depicted as a younger version of Helena, since Helena was a driven, ambitious woman who latched onto super-rich Mikkos Cassadine because she saw him as her ticket to power.  Esme might see Spencer as a similar ticket, only she believes she'd be the brains behind the operation since he's never going to be anything other than a spoiled brat.Dr. O and her late, great sister Magda/Madeline were from a German-speaking part of Switzerland.  I'm pretty sure that if anyone had known Kathleen Gati and Dr. O would stick around so long, they would not have given her such a strong accent to play in the beginning.  Now she has to play it for the duration.  When Dr. O lapses into German, it's usually in anger or frustration, so the inflection kind of tells me what she means (sort of like when Ricky Ricardo would lapse into Spanish on I Love Lucy).  I've heard mixed reviews on her German--Gati is from Canada--but she could make it up as she went along and I'd still find her fun to watch.When you are a "name" in soaps (known for work on other soaps), it's a lot easier to get noticed by producers on the lookout for talent.  When there were a dozen soaps on the air simultaneously they relied a lot more on discovering new talent with auditions, etc.  and of course there are still a lot of new, young actors being hired.  But now that there are only four soaps, the producers are much less willing to take chances on hiring a newbie to play a major character.  They know that veteran soap actors can handle the crushing schedule, and in most cases know if the veteran actor is the right type for a potential role.  The "name" actors know their value a lot more and can subvert the old system (auditioning for a role and groveling to get hired) by having their agent put out feelers to the soaps saying "Hey, I'm available.  Call me!"   Mathison has a rep for being easy to work with, so I'm sure they took that into consideration when he expressed interest in working at GH.  It also probably helped that he became famous on another ABC soap.  Depending on how motivated CM was to work, he may have been hired before they were sure who he would play.  It's a sure sign of confidence in an actor if a producer is willing to hire them first, then decide on a character to play.  Truthfully I am glad they're bringing Drew back....I am just not sold on CM playing him.  I think the character of Steven Lars Webber, Liz's brother, would have been a better fit for him since Drew and Jason are supposed to be twins.  Yes, Drew had facial reconstruction, but Mathison and Burton have two very different body types.  I fear this will be as weird as when Ellen Wheeler's Marley and Jensen Buchanan's Vicky became "un-identical twins" on Another World (after a decade of one actress playing both roles): Wheeler was thin and tall with a high-pitched voice, while Buchanan was short and had a throaty voice.  They had to avoid putting the sisters in the same scene because of the obvious differences.</blockquote>

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