Quick Take with Finola Hughes (Anna, GH)

late-breaking news

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Anna had to sit out the Nurses’ Ball this year, but thanks to the magic of a fantasy sequence, we still got to see you dance! How did that day go with your dancing partner, James Patrick Stuart (Valentin)?

“I feel like we kind of made it through, you know what I mean? He said to me, ‘Finola, you can’t have me doing the tango!’ He said, ‘I will be really scared.’ ” 

He told me that he was more nervous to dance with you than he was to work with Meryl Streep on It’s Complicated.

“Excellent. Oh, gosh, that’s really cool. Phideaux [Xavier] was directing it and he actually asked us to come in on a Sunday, and we all went in on a Sunday and rehearsed and it was really good. I was just very concerned that I might look like a sort of aging aunt at a wedding, you know, when they dance in a long dress? I was like, ‘Am I there yet? Is that what I look like? Am I the aunt at the wedding?’ I asked the producers, ‘Have I jumped the shark [