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GH'S FINOLA HUGHES: WHY I ENTERED AS SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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This year, Finola Hughes (a past Lead Actress winner for her work as GH's Anna) elected to enter herself in the Supporting Actress category (and received a nomination). "I didn’t have what I thought was the material that was that this year," she says of choosing not to submit herself as a Lead Actress. "I said to [Executive Producer] Frank [Valentini], ‘I’m not there this year. I don’t feel it.’ It's hard to explain, but when I was front and center with the stories, it just didn’t play out like a Lead story or something, was how I felt. I think, also, I was a little gun-shy, thinking, ‘I’m going to be eaten alive again!’ But I just honestly felt that I didn’t have the material. I don’t know whether that’s just me not feeling confident, perhaps; I think it was a mixture of that and my feeling that with the stories that I had, I didn’t have the scenes to support entering myself as Lead Actress. And that was just this year and how I felt, that I just didn’t think I had the material — and that may be my fault in the way that I played it. I can't say. But when I spoke to Frank about it, I was very honest about it and he said, ‘Okay, you can enter as Supporting.’ I can’t say. That was my instinct and I felt that anything that really gelled, I was in more of asupporting role. That’s how it looked to me."

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