“General Hospital” actress Lisa Lo Cicero is cool with her place on the bus of doom.
“Bus of doom? That’s a good over-arching title for the whole thing,” she says, talking about the ABC soap’s latest story twist — sending a bus full of children and their chaperones off a snowy road, creating a literal cliffhanger to be resolved next week. “That comes pretty close to ‘Toxic Ball Scare,’ which was (the storyline) last year at this time.”
Unfortunately for the tough-talking, secret- keeping Olivia Falconeri, the role Lo Cicero plays, the bus accident will not leave her unscathed.
She is rushed to the hospital and immediately gets emergency surgery. Whether the popular character, who has been the center of the show’s biggest stories in the past two years, gets to stick around is another matter altogether.
Lo Cicero sees a bright spot in the darkness. “It’s about time someone else gets to give tearful monologues to Olivia. I’ve had to do my share (for other characters),” she says.
As for playing a patient on the verge of death, Lo Cicero says the experience makes her feel vulnerable.
“As an actor, you kind of think it’s (easy)” to just lay there with your eyes closed, she says. “But really, just laying there and not moving while your fellow actors bring their A-game all around you is really sort of touching.”
The accident isn’t exactly helping Olivia’s love life either. Steve Webber (Scott Reeves) was riding on the bus, too, and he’s been making eyes at her for several weeks.
Whatever her fate, Olivia is a fighter and has survived other disasters in Port Charles, N.Y., the setting for “GH.” But, why is she always around when bad things happen?
The actress has a theory there — although not a very good one.
“Maybe she’s an evil super villain,” Lo Cicero deadpans. “She lives in a volcano cave and teleports herself back and forth.”
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