General Hospital’s Nancy Lee Grahn and Cameron Mathison on Alexis and Drew’s Scout Drama (EXCL)
Drew Cain doesn’t have many allies left on General Hospital, but someone who has most decidedly not been in his corner is his one-time mother-in-law, Alexis Davis. In fact, the attorney even threatened Drew in public after he drew up restraining orders blocking her and other members of her family from having access to Scout, his young daughter by Alexis’s late daughter, Sam McCall. Now, though, Drew needs something from Alexis — namely, a strong defense for Willow Tait, the lady of his heart, who is facing the very serious charge of attempting to murder him. Alexis wasn’t willing to play ball when Drew asked her to represent Willow, but she ultimately agreed on the October 21 episode when, in exchange, Drew agreed to let her drop the restraining orders (for everyone but Danny Morgan) and let her see her granddaughter whenever she wants.
Family Valued
Nancy Lee Grahn, Alexis’s portrayer, feels that her character had every right to be outraged by Drew using Scout as a bargaining chip. “I mean, that’s her daughter’s daughter,” Grahn notes. “That’s her family. He’s a jerk! But she’s stuck with him,” given that he holds all the cards — he has custody of Scout and even if she went through with the plan she floated to take him to court to try to become Scout’s guardian, it would be an uphill battle.
The actress says that if she found herself in Alexis’s shoes, she would do whatever was necessary to make sure she could remain in her granddaughter’s life. “If somebody tried to keep me from my grandchild — the grandchild that’s just in my imagination right now [laughs]” — I would go berserk!” she declares.
For his part, Cameron Mathison (Drew) thinks his character was motivated by one thing and one thing only when he issued those restraining orders, which affected Alexis, her surviving daughters (Kristina and Molly), Scout’s half brother Danny, and Rocco Falconeri, who became like a brother to her when Sam was romantically involved (and living with) Rocco’s dad, Dante. “It’s literally about control,” Mathison reasons. “There is not a lot of logic here, but he was trying to control everything! Obviously, everyone was against him. He was basically feeling like, ‘Everyone is against me’ — and that’s accurate, everybody is against him. So, he felt like he had to go to these extreme measures because from his perspective, everyone else is being unreasonable and accusing him of things that weren’t really fair. I, Cameron, know they were fair, but the way Drew sees it, he just had to go to these extreme measures to protect and control his family and those that he loves, be it Scout or Willow. For the two of them, he’ll do whatever he can.”
Mathison sees Drew’s controlling nature as part of what makes him a unique villain in the world of Port Charles. Says the actor, “I like that he’s not out there killing people; I like that he’s a villain without actually killing people or physically harming people. He’s just a total jerk, you know? Whereas a lot of villains on the show are out there shooting and killing people on the show. He’s not doing that, but he’s almost worse! And he’s definitely about trying to control people — control Willow, control how people see Scout or if they do.”
However, the actor didn’t find Drew’s decision to issue the restraining orders in the first place to be that difficult to swallow. “He knew that Alexis was trying to take Scout away from him [by petitioning for custody],” he reminds. “Even though he’s clearly a horrible father, [him fighting back] is the one thing that almost made sense to me as a dad. That one was easy to justify, to me.”
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