General Hospital’s Eden McCoy on Josslyn & Obrecht’s ‘Odd Couple’ Captivity Crisis (Exclusive)
Josslyn isn’t enjoying her life as a captive on General Hospital, but actress Eden McCoy tells Soap Opera Digest that she is having a blast with her character’s predicament, thanks in no small part to the fact that she gets to work alongside Kathleen Gati, who plays Joss’ fellow hostage, Dr. Liesl Obrecht.
The Odd Couple
Josslyn’s week began with discovering, in what McCoy calls “a very brutal way,” that she had new company in her cell in the form of Obrecht. “When she was dragged in unconscious by a henchman, Josslyn was like, ‘What the hell is going on?'” the actress recalls. “And to make things even more stressful, Josslyn now had knowledge of something that Dr. Obrecht didn’t know, which is that ‘Nathan’ is an impostor and she has another son, Cassius, that she didn’t know was alive in the first place.”
That truth soon tumbled out when Cassius visited the women in the cell. “It was almost unbearable just to picture a mother being so excited to see ‘Nathan,’ who she thinks is there to rescue her, only to find out that he’s not Nathan, and she has to grieve Nathan all over again,” sighs McCoy. “It was just this domino effect that was really fun to play. I felt like I got to be a fly on the wall with Kathleen and Ryan Paevey [Cassius]. I was like, ‘This is like the Ryan and Kathleen master class, and I get to watch right now and be in this with them!’ It was super-awesome.”
McCoy has never worked closely with Gati before their characters’ current storyline predicament, but behind the scenes, “She has always been so kind to me,” the actress says. “She’s so passionate about what she does, and she’s so different from Obrecht, so it’s been really cool to watch her just snap in and find this character. They’re both very strong women, but in such different ways.”
She has been particularly impressed by the accent Gati uses when she plays Obrecht. “I’m just on my knees praising her for her accent!” McCoy marvels. “I applaud anyone that can do accents because I can’t at all. So it just makes her that much more fun to to act with because when we’re in character, I’m talking to this person that sounds and behaves so differently from me. We’re just kind of the odd couple, locked in this room together, trying to figure out how to make it work.”
Though they’re allies in this particular situation, “Josslyn and Obrecht are not particularly fans of each other,” McCoy notes. “But when you put the two of them in a room, with both of them in a really bad spot, and fun things start to happen!”
Finishing Touches
Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) kidnapped Obrecht to force her to complete the work her daughter, Britt (Kelly Thiebaud), abandoned when she went on the run with Rocco (Finn Carr): bringing Cesar Faison’s (Anders Hove) dangerous cold fusion project to fruition — but on the June 11 episode, the women clashed over whether or not Obrecht should comply with their wishes.
“They have nothing else to do other than think about how they’re going to get out of this,” McCoy says. “I just know that for Josslyn, her number one priority is not allowing Cullum or Sidwell [Carlo Rota] to get their hands on this completed prototype. That is just Josslyn’s mantra, because she thinks that is absolutely the worst thing that could happen. Forget about those guys playing with their lives — if she can’t stop this from happening, if she can’t restrict their access to this prototype, then it doesn’t even matter if they die because a billion people could die! That’s how, as a WSB agent, Josslyn is thinking about things.”
McCoy teases that the storyline’s final chapter is going to be a doozy. “I am really excited for people to see how this plays out,” the GH star grins. “There’s a pretty big climax coming.”
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