General Hospital Exclusive: Cynthia Watros Talks Fallout for Nina After Brennan Blunder
Bedlam broke out on General Hospital when Nina accidentally injected Jack Brennan with the medication Willow has been using to keep Drew in a paralyzed state on the Friday cliffhanger. On Monday’s episode, it was revealed that Jack is alive — but he’s far from well. “This was not a good day for Nina,” declares Cynthia Watros, who gave Soap Opera Digest the inside scoop on all the drama.
Stick It to Me
“Those were really fun scenes to shoot,” Watros enthuses of the hectic events surrounding Nina’s inadvertent jabbing of Jack. “When I first read them, I was like, ‘How is this going to work, with Nina not really wanting to be in the middle of this fight between Valentin [James Patrick Stuart] and Jack [Chris McKenna] and ending up injecting him with this paralytic?!’ The three of us worked with a fight coordinator and it was so frenetic, but came together so naturally. I think it really turned out great!”
Great for viewers, not so great for Nina — because in the chaos that ensues after Jack collapses, Nina decides to follow him to the hospital and not tend to Drew (Cameron Mathison). Her failure to dose him on schedule could have huge consequences for both Nina and her daughter, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen). Watros notes, “She doesn’t remember until she’s at the hospital that Drew has missed his injection, and she calls Willow and has to tell her and Willow freaks out. They both know it would be very bad for them if he starts moving again. I mean, can can you imagine how angry Drew is going to be?! Not only have they been injecting him so he can’t move, but they’re also sort of making fun of him, like, ‘Can you just stop blinking? You’re kind of weirding me out.'”
Watros has been greatly impressed by Cameron Mathison’s performance as a locked-in Drew. “Cameron has been doing an amazing job,” she praises. “It is not easy, what he’s doing and all the emotion that he is able to show. It’s written in the script, like, ‘Drew is afraid with his eyeballs.’ I mean, how do you do that? But he does it!”
Speaking of eyeballs, Nina is up to hers in potential charges now that she’s put a WSB agent in the hospital in addition to being Willow’s accomplice in her crimes against Drew. “She is terrified,” Watros says. “I think she’s thinking about her daughter first and then she’s thinking about, ‘How is this going to affect me?’ This is very high-stress for her.”
Oh, The Humanity
But it’s not only the prospect of losing her freedom that is keeping Nina up at night in the wake of Brennan’s hospitalization. “Of course, she doesn’t want Willow or herself to be in trouble, and of course she’s worried about the repercussions of injecting an agent with a paralytic drug, but also, she has a heart,” muses Watros. “She hurt this man. This man is in a hospital bed because of her! It is not in Nina’s nature to put someone in the hospital because of something she did, so there’s a lot going on in her head. She is worried about him as a human being. She might not like him or even really know him, but I think we’ll see this bring her more compassion toward him.”
In the meantime, Watros says, she’s rooting for Nina to hold it together. “I don’t know what she does when she gets home after a day like this! I’m thinking a hot bath and a glass of wine. Nina definitely needs to decompress!”
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