General Hospital's Emma Samms Didn't Know What She Was Getting Into When She Started Playing Holly

Despite dealing with long COVID since 2020, beloved actress Emma Samms recently returned to "General Hospital" to reprise her role of Holly Sutton, according to People. On a recent episode of "State of Mind," hosted by "GH" co-star, Maurice Benard, Samms stated, "It was huge, but, I came in post-Luke and Laura (Spencer, Anthony Geary and Genie Francis)." She explained that both Demi Moore and Janine Turner's characters on the show were failed attempts to pair Luke with another woman after Francis left the show in 1981, stating the audience wasn't ready to accept Geary with, "anyone other than Genie." She added, "I was the third attempt to find a love interest for Luke." 

Since "GH" didn't play in England, she didn't know anything about it because, "I had not watched the show. Thankfully." She explained that she'd done several screen tests for "GH," and, "eventually did a screen test with Tony, who was so nice to me." She cited Geary for helping her improve her acting, particularly, "how to listen when you're acting, which is more than 50% of it." Samms said the audience finally accepted her, and the love triangle between Holly, Luke, and Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) became a fan favorite story.

"I came in very naive and that was the advantage I had, which was I didn't know how terrified I should have been," she said.