Who was your childhood idol? “I idolized and worshipped THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. That was my favorite TV show, and the guy that played Illya Kuryakin, David McCallum, I would cut my hair to look like him. One day I saw him coming out of a movie theater in Westwood — it seems like yesterday! I saw him coming toward me and I just froze. But I noticed he was wearing penny loafers, and I immediately got a pair the next day.”
Of all the soaps you’ve done, where was your best dressing room? “The one I fixed up at GH years ago. I was with Lynn Herring [Lucy] on Melrose [Ave.] having lunch, and I saw a red deco breakfast table with red chairs and I decided to buy that and take the couch out. I thought it would be cool that people could come in, we could sit around the table and run lines — and then I realized I screwed myself out of a couch! But PORT CHARLES was probably the ultimate dressing room because I had my own bathroom. I didn’t fix it up as much, though, and it was always a mess. The little girl that played my daughter, Carly Schroeder [ex-Serena], she’d come in and say, ‘Can I clean your room?’ And I said, ‘Carly, any money you find, you can keep!’ So, yeah, I had a little TV daughter and a built-in maid. It was great!”
If you were a contestant on WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and you had to pick a castmate to be your friend to phone as a lifeline, who would it be? “Oh, Lynn Herring, without a doubt! She knows everything about everything. She’s smart as a whip, she’s very well-versed in just about anything, so I would go straight to her — and the last person I would go to would be Maurice Benard [Sonny]!”
If Scott had gotten to keep the $250,000 he tried to extort from Ava and Nikolas, how would he have spent it? “Oh, he’d take care of Franco, and then he’d go buy himself a convertible and a penthouse, a bachelor pad, and set himself up!”
You’re a foodie. If you lived in Port Charles, what establishment would you patronize most frequently: Charlie’s, Kelly’s or the Metro Court? “Well, The Floating Rib was the place to be. Back in the day, it was a very plush, elegant restaurant that Lee and Gail and everybody used to go to. Then they brought it back as sort of a jukebox joint, which is never what it was before. So I guess now, my meals would be at the fancy Metro Court. There’s a hot hostess that works there [played by his real-life love, Trish Ramish]!”
