Daniel Goddard speaks as Professor Henry Dalton (exclusive)

“First and foremost, it is an absolute pleasure to be again during the day,” says Daniel Goddard, who was occupied as Henry Dalton, a new character General hospitaland will give his port Charles on April 15th.

For the actor who has portrayed The boys and the riots’ Cane Ashby from 2007 to 2019 (and his twin, Caleb in 2011), was not necessarily his radar on his radar at that time GH Came his way. “I didn’t really think about returning to acting,” he reveals. “I had somehow resigned myself to this life.”

But in December 2024 he received a call from his former manager Michael Bruno, who wanted to submit him for a role in the ABC soap. “The funny thing is, about four or five days before he wrote me an SMS, out of the blue, I had this really strong, cosmic moment when there is something about it General hospital Was really prominent in my head, “said Goddard.” It was really bizarre. It happened about a month before I met my wife in 1998. I said to myself: “I am ready to meet them with whom I wanted to be with.”

The role was the post -processing of Jack Brennan, who was previously played by Charles Mesure and to come back into the game to bring Goddard into an emotional position. “It is the first audition I’ve had for many years and it was a bizarre experience for me,” he admits. “You have the feeling that you are in a way returning to Ground Zero, even though you have been in another soap opera for 15 years. It was humble, but it was more of a awakening, and at that moment I felt extremely vulnerable.”

Especially when he realized that he was not the only familiar name in the mixture. “I had emerged in the hallway, and there were four or five other people, one of them was Daniel Cosgrove (Ezra Boyle, GH), and I said: ‘Oh, wow. There are a few people here and there is competition, “so I’m immediately afraid of the fact that I didn’t want to fail,” he explains. That really happens. ‘”

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The role ultimately went to Chris McKenna, but but GH Wasn’t quite finished with Goddard. “Michael called me a few weeks later and he said: ‘General hospital Called and you have this character and you write it and you want you to do it, “reveals Goddard.” I thought, “Do you want to kid me?” I was just enthusiastic about him. It was not a new building. It was a new character and I was blown away. I really felt that the timing was right and I felt that it should be. I cannot start to thank Frank and everyone to thank me General hospital And to Michael Bruno that he really believed in me and is there. “

Goddard reported in mid -March as a mysterious professor Henry Dalton, who works at Port Charles University. “He teaches environmental physics, and it seems that in his past there are some things he has done that have left him in a position in some form of investigation,” teases Goddard. “And from there it is an absolute puzzle.”

And so the actor prefers it. “I said to Frank:” Nothing tell me about the character, “says Goddard.” I know that the characters I had scenes with know about him. I don’t want to know what it is because I don’t want to play what I know. I would rather have a kind of clean slate for me. Young and the riotsI have always read the entire script because other characters talk about them and they will learn more about them than they know about themselves. At General hospitalYou only get your pages and I thought: “Woody everyone would do where he doesn’t want everyone to know what’s going on or what the phrases and twists are.” And I thought: “It will be cool.” So I allow myself to go on a journey, who is Dalton from the perspective of the audience, and in my view what the growth and development of it is. I will allow me to develop the parts that present the parts to me. “

So far, Eden McCoy (Josslyn Jacks) and Finola Hughes (Anna Devane) have been some of the actors who shared scenes with the newcomer, and he has enthusiastic reviews for both. “What a blessing to have someone with Finola’s seal of approval and their value and their experience and their talent,” he praises. “It was just a wonderful experience.” Do you know what I want? I want to have fun. Let’s just have fun. “And she said,” Oh God, I would love that. “So we played these scenes and they were great.

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Goddard has already encountered some known faces on the set and is looking forward to connecting to Genie Francis (Laura Collins) and Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio), who played Cane’s parents Genevieve and Colin Atkinson Y&R. “I waited for my moment to see genius and give her a big hello and a great hug,” he says. “I haven’t seen Tristan. I’m not sure where scorpion is at the moment, but I have Steve Burton (Jason Morgan, who played Y & r’s Dylan McAvoy), and we had a great conversation. I saw Eva Larue (Natalia Rogers-Ramirez, who played Y & r’s Celeste Rosales), and we had a little conversation. Day is a family and until they were there, they don’t really understand how tight it is. “

This close -meshed feeling of occupation and action in general are some of the many reasons why he is enthusiastic about being back in the genre. “Here I am and have the feeling that I belong,” he thinks. “I think Young and restless For all the years there is a part of them that becomes an entity that expresses itself. When you stop, the part of you always lacks, and then you start from the front, and it is as if you take all the things you have learned in the past that have been in your subconscious for all the years and then use you again. And it’s better. They had the chance to metabolize everything, and when they call it back, they have this different understanding of how this craft should be used. “

Goddard looks back at his Y&R Experience with a preference, but his relationship with the spectators he met through this job is particularly useful for him today. “I will generally be grateful to the fans of day forever,” he notes. “It goes back to 2010 when Canane was killed and the fans have merged, rented an airplane and flew it with a banner via CBS:” Bring Daniel Goddard as Cane “. And until this moment I have never noticed how the fans of day are the biggest fans in the world.

One he hopes follows after Port Charles, where he has a great time as a professor Dalton. “So far it has been an extraordinary, wonderful experience,” enthuses Goddard. “I just got new scripts and I have four episodes in a week about what I’m so excited about. I feel wanted, in the sense that everything I have gone through in this process should be so far. I could not be more grateful, what I think is probably the most beloved genre in all entertainment.”

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