SCARE TACTICS
Though Emma Samms was unable to travel to the U.S. to reprise the role of Holly on GH last year due to her own bout with Covid as well as pandemic-related travel restrictions, she was able to record a scene, shot at home in her guest room, depicting her character being held against her will but very much alive. She recalls, “Simon [Mccoy, her partner] helped me set up the camera and because he’s not in show business — he’s in the serious world of news, he’s a news anchor — he is not used to drama. He waited outside the room and I did my thing, [acting] very upset, and I’m very used to that, switching those emotions on and off, and then I opened the door and the look on his face — he was traumatized! He looked horrified from hearing me scream. He said, ‘I almost went back in the room!’ It was very, very amusing to me. I said, ‘Well, that’s a good sign, that means I did okay with it!’ ” Samms was impressed with the finished results when she saw the way the footage was used on GH. “I thought they did the big reveal so brilliantly, with all the monitors and the music, and it really was a surprise, because they hadn’t teased it. It was superbly done! You put that in any feature film and you’d be proud, I think.”