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Emory grad Natalia Livingston returning to ‘General Hospital’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Actress Natalia Livingston celebrated the arrival of 2009 by phoning Buzz Central with a sizable scoop: The “General Hospital” fan favorite is returning to the ABC soap on Jan. 15.
Last year, the Emmy winner departed the show after her character, heroine Emily Quartermaine, was murdered. Livingston limped through the final months of her contract gamely playing her character’s ghost, a figment of her prince paramour Nikolas Cassadine’s brain tumor (did we mention this is a soap?).
This time out, “General Hospital” head writer Robert Guza Jr. has created a brand new character for the Emory University sociology grad.
But her local family and friends had a hard time extracting information on the latest Port Charles resident from Livingston during her holiday visit here.
“Her name is Rebecca and she works at the hospital,” Livingston spilled. “She’s going to come in and shake things up. It’ll be interesting to see how the characters react to her. I’m not sure I’m allowed to tell you more than that!”
And when Rebecca strolls into “General Hospital,” folks other than the now-cured Nikolas will think they’re seeing ghosts. However, Rebecca has short blond tresses.
“There is going to be some trial and error as this character gets fleshed out,” Livingston explained. “We had one hourlong conversation and then I started work the next day. There’s a molding process for the character. One minute, I had long dark hair and the next, it was all cut off and I was a blonde!”
Still, Livingston is looking forward to helping to create a character from scratch (she took over the role of Emily from future “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” actress Amber Tamblyn in 2004).
“In many ways, Emily was very similar to me,” she says. “Now, I’m stepping out of my comfort zone with this new character. It’s a very fun challenge.”
Plus, Rebecca is poised to be very different from the perennial peace-maker nice girl, Emily.
“Rebecca doesn’t feel the need to be nice to everyone, let’s just say!” Livingston said, laughing. “She goes against the grain. With her, if I don’t feel like smiling, I don’t have to.”
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