GH Exclusive: Van Hansis On The Secret That Could Derail Lucas’s Romance With Marco
Van Hansis (r.) with new GH love interest Adrian Anchondo (Marco)
On Wednesday’s General Hospital, Lucas Jones found out that the handsome stranger he met with, made out with (and vomited on!) in Miami, Marco, is all but a lock for a new job that will keep him in Port Charles, giving their connection a chance to blossom. Soap Opera Digest checked in with Van Hansis, the actor who portrays Lucas, for the inside scoop on what’s going through his character’s mind — and how Lucas might react to finding out that Marco’s father is the nefarious Jenz Sidwell.
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“When Marco first texts Lucas to tell him he’s in town, Lucas’s reaction was to be like, ‘I’m gonna hide,’ ” Hansis says. “Lucas is still carrying a lot of embarrassment [over his conduct in Miami], because Lucas is pretty straight-laced; I don’t think it’s very common for him to vomit all over people and throw himself at them and want to hook up like that! So, initially, Lucas is like, ‘Oh, God, I don’t know…’ ”
Lucas’s romantic skittishness is about more than just the drunken behavior he exhibited when he first met Marco. Hansis points out, “I think this is the first guy since Brad,” his ex-husband, “that he’s actually been really invested in, really interested in. We don’t totally know what happened [in Lucas’s personal life] when he was living in Boston and off the show, but what I’ve been playing is that with everything that happened with Brad — and with Wiley, thinking he had a son, then he didn’t — the poor guy must have some PTSD. That’s how I’ve been playing it, and it’s in the scripts, too; he’s said stuff about how he didn’t really socialize much, he just kind of threw himself into work and didn’t really explore anything romantic with anybody [after his marriage crumbled]. So, I think Lucas is really excited for Marco to be there, but also, he doesn’t want to get his hopes up. This is the first time he’s opening up to somebody since Brad and with everything he’s been through, that’s got to be hard for him. I think his coping mechanism to deal with everything that happened years ago was to shut down, and now we’re beginning to see him open up and sort of let Marco in.”
Of course, as the men start to get closer, Lucas is in the dark about something that could potentially throw what Hansis calls “a monkey wrench” into their deepening relationship: the fact that Marco is the son of Jenz Sidwell. “Sidwell has done some really horrible things to people that Lucas really cares about,” Hansis reminds. “He kidnapped Isaiah, who’s a good friend of Lucas’s. He kidnapped Lucky, who’s Lucas’s cousin. I’ve only ever had one scene with Carlo [Rota, Sidwell], where I was pulling a tick out of his arm or something, and then Isaiah filled Lucas in on everything that Sidwell has done. So, while Lucas doesn’t have any firsthand connections to Sidwell’s dastardly doings, I think Lucas is very wary about who this man is, from what everybody else has said to him about the guy — and if Marco’s father has done horrible things, Lucas might have to wonder, how complicit is Marco in all of it?”
Of course, Lucas is no stranger to having an unsavory father. While the late Dr. Tony Jones, who adopted and raised Lucas, was generally an upstanding member of the community, his birth father, the late Julian Jerome, was a career mobster. “That’s a good point,” the actor muses. “I do feel like Lucas isn’t one to judge a person by what their family has done, or what their parents have done. He might be more willing to overlook [Marco’s connection to Sidwell] because with Julian, he didn’t really come from the best stock, either!”
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