What are your favourite qualities of Felicia’s? “I like that she by no means provides up. I really like that she pursues issues to the bitter finish, it doesn’t matter what the consequence. She’s a typically good-natured particular person and he or she actually shoots for the brilliant facet and I believe, together with her years of knowledge, she is aware of methods to manipulate the entire issues she’s discovered in her life as a result of she’s had so many dramas and tragedies. I like that she learns from her errors and strikes ahead.”
What has been the perfect time in her life? “That looks like you’re asking, ‘What was your favourite storyline?’ That has at all times been a troublesome query for me as a result of I’ve liked all of the phases and I’ve liked all of her life. However I believe the perfect time for her can be right this moment, as a result of she’s extra grounded and she will make the selection to pursue happiness. She has the instruments and he or she’s very content material in her marriage to Mac and being current for Maxie and the grandchildren. She’s strong and secure. So, right this moment might be her most at-peace, happiest time.”
What was the toughest time in her life? “Maxie’s coronary heart transplant can be one, and the second can be Georgie’s demise. Being a mom is among the most essential features of her life, and so the toughest instances had been when her youngsters had been struggling, and the worst time in her life can be when Georgie died. I do know from private expertise what that’s like [having lost son Harrison in 2022]. That could be very crucial and would change you, and make you into a unique character, really.”
Who do you assume Felicia trusts essentially the most? “I believe her daughter, Maxie. Maxie trusts her and confides in her about essentially the most brutal selections that she has to make and I believe, likewise, Felicia feels she will do the identical with Maxie.”
Do you might have a favourite dwelling that Felicia has lived in? “Oh, the brownstone. I appreciated the concept that they had us as a neighborhood within the brownstone. We had Bobbie and Tony downstairs, or Tony and Tania downstairs, and I believe it gave a way of geography on the present, since you sort of knew the place they had been — they had been down by the docks, they had been near Kelly’s Diner and frequented that.”
What Felicia storyline can be most enjoyable so that you can do another time? “Choose an attractive one, and if we may do it another time, we may make it even dirtier as a result of now now we have the permission to take action [laughs]!”
How do you think about Felicia spends her downtime? “Oh, she’s writing a ebook. The Half-Time Princess, that’s the title of her ebook, and it’s about her adventures with Frisco. She’s writing it in secret. Mac doesn’t know.”
We all know that Lucy considers Felicia to be her best pal, however who does Felicia think about to be her finest pal? “Properly, it most likely wouldn’t be Lucy! Her finest pal might be Anna. That’s the friendship we at all times come again to. They’ve a pleasant relationship and a superb belief with one another and an actual consolation with one another. They don’t have a contest with one another. They extra simply kind of share their experiences and attempt to get sound recommendation from one another.”
Felicia has been on many capers through the years. Who’s her favourite journey buddy? “Anna. She is aware of if she’s going to have interaction with Lucy, there’s gonna be bother, there are going to be issues which might be past her management, and he or she received’t have the ability to do something about it as a result of she’s Lucy! And Lucy will rat her out in a second to avoid wasting herself!”
Who do you assume Felicia most appears as much as? “Proper now, it’s Stella. Stella is her mentor as she pursues this new profession as a affected person advocate. Stella is giving her some actually good recommendation, exhibiting her a few of the actuality of what goes on at Normal Hospital, and it’s sort of an awakening for her.”
What profession of Felicia’s do you assume has suited her finest? “I believe for every section of her life, she was in the appropriate place. Every profession was working for her. After I began on the present, Felicia was a scholar at Port Charles College and dealing at Kelly’s Diner with Ruby. That was applicable and suited her on the time. Proper now she’s in a cool phrase of her journey with being a affected person advocate, the place she’s utilizing knowledge she didn’t have earlier than, but it surely’s not a nasty factor to be younger and inexperienced. These careers may be wonderful at the moment and as we transfer alongside in our lives, hopefully we shift and alter with what we’re studying and attempt to be of service to individuals. I believe that’s Felicia’s considering.”
Who would Felicia least wish to run into in a darkish alley? “After all I’m gonna say Ryan! He would nonetheless be in her nightmares, completely. He formed the way in which she thinks about concern.”
Which of Felicia’s marriage ceremony albums do you assume she’d be most inclined to seize off the shelf? “Properly, essentially the most decadent and the prettiest one was the primary Frisco and Felicia marriage ceremony. That was fairly extravagant and was most likely the biggest-budgeted, too, and drew loads of consideration. However that wouldn’t be Felicia’s reply. Her reply can be, ‘The one with Mac!’ The one the place they acquired it executed and accomplished it and reside fortunately ever after.”
What do you assume is the important thing to Felicia’s blissful marriage to Mac? “They respect one another. They’ve had their very own careers and so they respect one another’s careers. In addition they spend loads of time collectively. They do issues collectively, loads of enjoyable occasions, and in the course of the day, he’ll depart work and meet her for lunch or a drink or one thing. They at all times embrace one another and the one instances issues occur between them are once they preserve secrets and techniques from one another.”
What story would you wish to see explored for Felicia sooner or later? “I would like to see them revisit what occurred together with her abandoning her youngsters for Frisco, as a result of we don’t actually know what that was about. I’d like to see them give a full account as to why she did that and the place she was. I might like it to be a fairly viable excuse as a result of she’s not a flake and he or she is an effective mom and it’s actually out of character for that cleaning soap opera, ‘scripted in, scripted out’ factor [to have occurred] simply because Kristina had a time in her private life the place she needed to depart the present, you understand? I’d love for it to be defined extra totally and provides it some credibility and accountability for Felicia. I believe it’s essential for the character; it’s a gap in her historical past that actually must have some mild shined on it. I hope sometime, they’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s time to go to that story!’ ”
Me vs. Her
■ Who is healthier at preserving secrets and techniques, you or Felicia? “Me!”
Would you put on Felicia’s wardrobe? “Half of it. There are loads of issues that aren’t so snug, and in some conditions I might costume otherwise from how she does.”
She most likely has more room in her closet dedicated to ball robes than you do. “Yeah. And weddings [laughs].”
Who provides higher recommendation, you or Felicia? “Hmm. I believe I’m fairly good at it. It’s a tie, I believe. We’ve each gone by quite a bit and we each have some issues to share with different individuals the place we may be of service to different individuals. I really feel fairly assured that if somebody desires to speak to me about one thing that I’m accessible for that. I’ve executed loads of work on myself as a result of I wanted to, as a result of I’ve had loads of onerous instances, and we don’t know that Felicia has been in remedy or executed loads of work like I’ve, however she seeks the reality and I’m certain, behind the scenes, she reads loads of books!”
How would you fare as a personal investigator in comparison with Felicia? “Oh, horrible. I don’t wish to see any physique components or blood or flesh. No, thanks!”
How do you assume you’ll do as a affected person advocate? “Horrible. I don’t wish to be wherever close to a hospital. I like hospital staff on each stage, however I simply couldn’t do it.”
Who’s extra impulsive, you or Felicia? “Oh, Felicia, after all!”
Who’s higher in a disaster, you or Felicia? “Me, completely.”
Who’s extra forgiving, you or Felicia? “Me.”
Who has a greater humorousness? “I’m gonna say me. It might not learn for different individuals, however I’ve a thoughts that races with humor first after which drama later.”