Since the coronavirus pandemic forced GH to suspend production, Nancy Lee Grahn has been putting her free time to good use, creating online content for her fans and spending quality time with her loved ones. We checked in with the fan fave over email.
Soap Opera Digest: This is probably the longest you’ve gone without working on a soap since your maternity leave in 1998! Has it been strange to have this kind of prolonged break from
Alexis and the routine of life at GH?
Nancy Lee Grahn: Well, all of this is strange, to say the least. And my maternity leave was only three weeks, one-week bed rest before birth and only two after. So this has been the longest time off of my day job while on day time. The last two years of GH were not my most engaged there, story-wise, so not being there often wasn’t hard to get used to, but not being there at all was an adjustment. I got a taste of what retirement might look like, and I didn’t like the look at all. So I’m not ever going to retire. So there’s that revelation now.
Digest: What do you miss about going to work?
Grahn: A focused, existing, professional purpose where I show up and do what I know how to do and what I do well. I didn’t have to create or invent a purpose. There’s a big difference.
Digest: I’m so impressed with all the creative ways you’ve found to stay connected with your fans during this time. What made you decide to start up your YouTube chat show, SOAPS IN QUARANTINE?
This story is from the July 6, 2020 edition of Soap Opera Digest.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the July 6, 2020 edition of Soap Opera Digest.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
GREAT Expectations
With A Baby And Wedding On The Way, Y&R's Camryn Grimes Is Excited About The Future
thumbs up! and down!
Best Of Show Or Worse For Wear? Digest Decides.
DARIN BROOKS CLARIFIES B&B STATUS
Darin Brooks (Wyatt, B&B) posted an update on social media after fans noticed that he was removed from the opening credits of the show he first joined in 2013.
A NOVEMBER to REMEMBER
Your must-have guide to soaps upcoming tales.
Hot Plots Preview!
What Will Happen
Y&R: VICTOR'S ULTIMATE TEST
Victor arrives at the GCAC for a meeting with his sons that Adam has organized. \"This is all Adam's plan to prove that his dad is incompetent,\" begins Mark Grossman (Adam). \"Adam has arranged for a psychiatrist, Dr. Skelton, to be sitting nearby so he can observe Victor's behavior and make a proper diagnosis.\"
GH PREVIEW: DREW IS FREE!
Carly gets a happy surprise when Drew shows up at Kelly's, having been granted an early release from Pentonville.
B&B: RIDGE KEEPS MUM ABOUT ERIC
After learning that Eric is dying, Ridge tries to make his father's life a little easier. \"Ridge told Eric he won the fashion showdown because he realizes that his father needed this,\" explains Thorsten Kaye (Ridge). \"He's in no way trying to be patronizing, and if Eric were to ever find out, I'd hope he see the love behind it. Ridge just thought it was the right thing to do.\"
DAYS: LI IS MURDERED!
Gabi and Stefan's plot to take over DiMera takes a deadly turn when he finds her kneeling over Li's body, holding a knife.
BLAKE BERRIS ON NEW DAYS ROLE
After years of playing a gamut of wild and wonderful characters on DAYS - the quirky, obsessive Nick, a Halloween zombie, and, most recently, the gatekeeper to hell Blake Berris is tackling something new and different: a bona fide leading man. And he's finally ready to embrace it.
