Teasing Nina’s Future, General Hospital’s Cynthia Watros Drops a Spoiler Alert: ‘I Love It’

Over the course of the last year, General Hospital has thrown some major changes at Nina. Her marriage to Sonny went belly up. Her friendship with Ava went kaput. And once again, daughter Willow wanted nothing to do with her. So “I’m mourning not being able to see my friends anymore,” Cynthia Watros tells First for Women. “Even though it’s just words on a page and you’re playing a character, I miss working with them. When I see Maurice [Benard] and Maura [West] on a totally different set, I’m like, ‘I wonder what they’re doing over there.’ And I don’t get to see Katy [MacMullen] a whole lot, and I just love her so much.”

Luckily, General Hospital wasn’t just out with the old, it was in with the new — meaning that Nina is now enmeshed in a fiery affair with Cameron Mathison’s Drew. “They sometimes tell you you’re going to have a love scene — which means don’t go to McDonald’s for a while!” Watros says. “So Frank [Valentini, executive producer] sweetly let me know, and I thought, ‘Oh, I guess Sonny and Nina get back together.’ But then a little voice [in the back of my head] was like, ‘You better text back [and ask] with who.’”

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When the Emmy winner found out that Nina would be getting jiggy with Drew, whom she got sent to prison for insider trading, she was stunned. “At first, I was like, ‘How’s this gonna work?’” she admits. “But I trust Frank, the writers and the process — and as we were shooting it, I was like, ‘Oh, this really is gonna work.’” Even if it doesn’t in the long-term, “what I liked about it is that Nina got her sexy back. She might not care for his personality a whole lot, but whether you liked it or not, she does find Drew very attractive!”

Perhaps as Nina gets to know him better, she could find more things than his abs and biceps that she likes about him? “You never know,” Watros says. “I’m just having a great time, whatever we have together. Because Nina’s has never had a relationship like this. I mean, she’s downright rude to Drew sometimes, and they’re very raw with each other. I love it.”