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Love With a Proper (and Appropriately Aged) Stranger

After months and months in Port Charles, Olivia finally hooked up with Johnny. Lisa LoCicero talks about her GENERAL HOSPITAL character hitting the sheets with a younger man.Soap Opera Weekly: How is Brandon Barash as a scene partner?
Lisa LoCicero: Brandon is just an absolute sweetie; he’s just a dreamboat and a doll. I would be thrilled for my own son to grow up and be such a delightful gentleman. Not that I want to do a love scene with my own son [laughs]!

Weekly: Is it difficult to shoot love scenes?
LoCicero: Brandon and I have both been in this game for a while, and I don’t think either of us is particularly uptight or nervous about it. If he was, he didn’t show it. In my experience, men tend to be the nervous member of the love scene party.

Weekly: Do you feel like it turned out sexy?
LoCicero: Some of our clothes come off. I’m walking through the halls and getting feedback. Everyone is saying, “Oh, those scenes are so sexy!” I’m starting to feel like maybe we did something lewd that I wasn’t aware of, so I’m hoping we didn’t embarrass ourselves [laughs]!

Weekly: In the story, almost everyone comments on the age difference between your characters.
LoCicero: How many younger women has Sonny been with, and no one ever says anything? But a woman with a younger man — suddenly everyone has to make hay about it. I enjoyed that aspect of the storyline.

Weekly: You were on the other end of the spectrum, too.
LoCicero: When I first got on a soap [LOVING/THE CITY], I was in my early 20s and playing [Jocelyn] against my beloved Randolph Mantooth [Alex], who was in his mid-40s, and it was not like anyone mentioned it — ever. No one said, “Hey, you’re a little older than her.” It wasn’t even a topic of conversation. Except for Jane Elliot [Tracy], who came on one time and wrote her own dialogue, and said, “I assume this is your daughter?” It’s kind of interesting to play both ends of the spectrum.

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