The Younger and the Stressed alum Daniel Goddard is heading to Normal Hospital to play a professor.
Goddard, who performed Cane Ashby from 2007 to 2019 on Y&R, will present up in Port Charles beginning April 15. His new character, Henry Dalton, works at Port Charles College.
“He teaches environmental physics, and it appears there are some issues in his previous that he’s carried out which have left him able of some type of investigation,” Goddard instructed TV Insider, which first broke the information about his casting. “And from there, it’s an absolute thriller to me.”
Goddard mentioned it was “an absolute pleasure to be again in daytime” and mentioned “I perpetually can be grateful to the followers of daytime normally.”
“It goes again to in 2010 when Cane was killed off and followers banded collectively, rented an airplane, and flew it over CBS with a banner saying, ‘Convey Daniel Goddard again as Cane,’” Goddard instructed TV Insider. “And I by no means realized, up till that second, how the followers of daytime are really the best followers on this planet. They see you because the character since you’re of their lives on such an everyday foundation, after which because the years move by, they get to know you as your actual identify. And then you definately type these relationships by means of social media and going to fan occasions, and it’s only a phenomenal fan base that was great.”
Goddard started filming on GH in March. He admits that he didn’t study a lot in regards to the character at first.
“I do know that the characters that I’ve had scenes with know one thing about him. I don’t need to know what it’s as a result of I don’t need to play it that I do know. I’d moderately have the character be type of a clear slate to me,” he instructed the outlet. “At Younger and the Stressed, I at all times used to learn the entire script as a result of different characters will discuss you, and also you’ll get to know extra about you than you already know about your self. At Normal Hospital, you solely get your pages, and I believed, ‘Woody Allen would do this, the place he doesn’t need everyone know what’s happening or what the twists and turns are.’ And I believed, ‘That is going to be cool.’ So, I’m permitting myself to go on the journey of who Dalton is from the viewers’s perspective, and from my perspective of what’s the progress and evolution of him. I’ll enable it to unfold because the bits and items current themselves to me.”
