General Hospital Exclusive: Amanda Setton Reacts to Brook Lynn’s Dirty Move Against Willow
Brook Lynn is playing with fire on General Hospital as she covers up her role in the accident that left Jordan (Tanisha Harper) near death and schemes to make it look like Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) was the driver of the other vehicle on Route 91 that fateful night. Amanda Setton chatted exclusively with Soap Opera Digest about her character’s dirty move against the woman she’s convinced is after her husband and how the story is bringing what she calls “the old Brook Lynn” back to the surface.
The ‘Old’ Brook Lynn Peeks Through
Whatever Brook Lynn did or didn’t do on the night of Jordan’s crash, it wasn’t premeditated — but framing Willow certainly is! Setton sees the storyline as a return to form for her character, for whom scheming came as easily as breathing before she settled into domestic calm with Chase (Josh Swickard).
“I am loving what’s going on with Brook Lynn now because I think we’re seeing some peeks of the old Brook Lynn coming back,” the GH star declares. “She isn’t just this pure, maternal, loving, gushy, hopelessly in love person. She still has a competitive streak. She still has a possessive streak. She still has her own self-interest in mind. And I think that’s important for the character. I’m so happy to see the writers revisiting that part of her because I do think that is a very big part of who Brook Lynn really is. She’s not somebody that you want to cross. She’s not somebody that you want to mess with.”
Setton muses, “I think that we have seen her sort of dial all that back a little bit in the last few years. She has been so hopelessly in love with Chase, and she didn’t think that would ever happen for her. It has softened her, and I think that has opened up a new story for her in terms of family and mothering and being a team player at Deception — but it quieted this other part of her.”
That is, until she saw Willow getting a little too close to Chase for her own comfort, especially on the heels of him putting his career with the PCPD on the line to prove that she didn’t shoot Drew (Cameron Mathison). “This whole storyline and conflict with Willow has reignited this ‘don’t mess with me’ component of her personality, which has been really fun to play,” Setton nods.
‘No Turning Back’ for Brook Lynn
Brook Lynn’s decision to partner up with Lucy (Lynn Herring) to attempt to send Willow to prison is born out of her deeply held belief that no matter how much Willow denies it, she is hoping to steal Chase away from her. “Brook Lynn is a New Yorker through and through,” Setton declares, “and she can read the truth of people. I think she is very clear on what Willow’s true intentions are. It is clear as day to her that Willow is not just being an altruistic congresswoman. She wants Brook Lynn’s husband! And Brook Lynn is going to do whatever it takes to protect her family and to prevent that from happening.”
The specific “whatever it takes” method Brook Lynn has chosen is pretty extreme — and pretty unlikely to sit well with Chase if the truth ever came out. Says Setton, “The side that Brook Lynn is showing right now, as a viewer, I think is one of her best sides and that it’s really delicious to watch. But as a character, it’s not her best moment, right? She’s definitely coming from a vengeful place. She feels hurt and she feels threatened and so she wants to [cause] hurt and she is going to protect what’s hers.”
As for how she is justifying it to herself, Setton explains, “I think she’s rationalizing it in her head as, she doesn’t have a choice. She is at a level of desperation where Chase is her number one priority. Chase is her everything. He’s her whole world — he’s her husband, her family, her security, her future. And that is being threatened and potentially jeopardized by a woman who she still believes likely shot Drew. She doesn’t think that Willow is this innocent little unicorn! And now this person is coming after her husband — her sweet, loving, goodhearted, good-natured, well-intentioned husband?!
“In this situation, Brook Lynn is the mama bear,” Setton continues. “And she is going to attack! She may not be going about it in the best way, but she is coming from a good place. It may be a place of desperation, but it’s also a place of protectiveness and love for Chase, her innocent husband who just doesn’t know any better.” And, yes, maybe just a bit of good, old-fashioned fury. “I do think that Brook Lynn has seen red,” the actress allows. “And there’s no turning back for her now.”
However it plays out and however messy it gets, Setton is Team Brook Lynn all the way. “I believe in her,” she says. “I feel like I really know her and empathize with her and I can see that she’s just a human navigating her life and navigating her marriage and now, with baby Phoebe in the picture, navigating this new chapter in her life. She has so much to lose right now — a husband she loves, adopting a baby on the horizon. And she’s just so paralyzed by fear that it will go away.”
Will that end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy? Only time will tell….
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