General Hospital: Danny & Charlotte ‘Don’t Think It’s Right’ To Pursue Romance, Asher Antonyzyn Says
Danny and Charlotte (Bluesy Burke) shared some kisses on General Hospital, but then things cooled off as the young pair dropped onto the back burner. In a recent episode of the That’s Awesome podcast hosted by Bradford Anderson (Spinelli) and Steve Burton (Jason), Asher Antonyzyn opened up about his alter ego’s relationship with Charlotte and how it has changed.
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Danny and Charlotte had been growing closer and closer on GH, and while stuck together in the Quartermaine carriage house during a terrible blizzard, they shared their first kiss in the January 29 episode. After some time, the teens discussed that milestone moment and shared another liplock on March 3. But that seemed to be the end of the potential romance, which had proven divisive among fans on social media given that the characters are related, albeit distantly.
During the podcast, Anderson inquired if there were romantic feelings between Danny and Charlotte, and Antonyzyn said that “There was, for a hot second.” But when things advanced beyond friendship, Danny worried about how the branches of their family trees intertwined. “Danny talked to his grandma [Alexis, played by Nancy Lee Grahn] and his dad about if they were related, and they said distant cousins, like great-grandfathers, great-great-grandfathers,” the actor recounted. “But at the end of the day, still related a little bit. So who knows where that goes, if that continues on.”
Charlotte’s biological grandfather, Victor Cassadine, and Danny’s biological great-grandfather, Mikkos Cassadine, were brothers, so the teens are related by blood. Specifically, due to the generational difference in their lineage, Danny and Charlotte are second cousins once removed. While technically not closely related, it appears now that the teens are no longer pursuing that blossoming romance, and their relationship has changed.
Antonyzyn compared Danny and Charlotte’s current connection to that of another non-romantic Port Charles supercouple. “They’ve kind of realized that it’s kind of like a Jason and Carly [Laura Wright] relationship where they have so much love for each other that they don’t feel like it’s right to go into something like that again.”
With Charlotte concerned about her father, Valentin (James Patrick Stuart), being on the run from the WSB, and Danny desperate to find his own father, Jason, who was himself taken into WSB custody after taking the blame for shooting Cullum (Andrew Hawkes), the two have more pressing concerns at the moment than young love — especially since the secret that Rocco (Finn Carr) was actually responsible for the shooting hanging in the air. But as close as they’ve become, Danny and Charlotte could be a formidable duo if they work together towards a common goal. Teased Antonyzyn, “We do team up and try and get [Jason] back.”
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