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In 1986, Nancy Lee Grahn and Lane Davies became fan favorites when they were paired together as Santa Barbara’s Julia Wainwright and Mason Capwell. They crossed paths again in 2002, when Grahn was toiling on General Hospital as Alexis Davis and Davies did a two-year stint as Cameron Lewis.
On May 22, Davies returns as a new character, Fergus Byrne, who will face off with Alexis in court as she fights to get her law license reinstated. Here, the duo (who were also briefly linked in real-life in the ‘80s), discusses their on- and off-screen connection.
Lane, how did your return for this General Hospital visit come about?
Lane Davies: I know Nancy was wanting to work with me again. I ran into [former GH head writer] Patrick Mulcahey at [Santa Barbara co-creator] Bridget Dobson’s funeral and we had a lovely lunch together and a lovely visit and I think it was just the synergy of all those things coming together that did it. Patrick saw me and realized that I hadn’t completely deteriorated over the years and thought, “Well, this would be fun.”
Nancy Lee Grahn: And Patrick really fashioned Mason and Julia and their relationship. The Dobsons of course, created the characters, but he was very responsible for the writing of that.
Davies: He got us early on and that sort of Adams Rib-by tone that we had.
Grahn: And the dimension and the complication and all those things.
Nancy, how did you react when you heard Lane was coming to the show?
Grahn: I was thrilled. There’s just chemistry between us in general, because we could pretty much argue about anything, and agree about…
Davies: Nothing [laughs].
Grahn: Where you want to kill each other and then make out with each other. We’re so chemical, the two of us, and it’s so fun.
