Jason Thompson is firmly settled into The Young and the Restless after ten years as Billy Abbott, but there is still some longing for his previous soap role, Dr. Patrick Drake on General Hospital.
Speaking with Swooon, Thompson touched on how the return of his onscreen daughter, Emma Drake (now played by Braedyn Bruner), to Port Charles in 2024 made him think about what it would be like to revisit Patrick’s life.
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