Nathan Dean will make his General Hospital return as Ethan Lovett on April 17, six years after he last appeared in Port Charles.
The opportunity to revisit the role began to take shape late last year, after the passing of Anthony Geary, who played his on-screen father, Luke Spencer. “I wanted to come back for a little bit after everything with Tony, just to sort of pay my respects for everything he did for me over the course of the many years that we worked together,” Dean explains. “And I guess they had the same thought because Frank [Valentini, executive producer] and Mark [Teschner, casting director] reached out right before Christmas break and were like, ‘Hey, would you come back?’”
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