General Hospital News: Michael Easton Gets Real About Why He Was Written Off The Show

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General Hospital News: Michael Easton Gets Real About Why He Was Written Off The Show

2024/07/22 Report

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Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when you've spent years inhabiting a beloved fictional world. For Michael Easton, who played Dr. Hamilton Finn on "General Hospital" since 2016, leaving Port Charles has been a rollercoaster of emotions.

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In a candid interview with Soap Opera Digest, Easton confessed that the sudden nature of his departure made it even harder to process.

"I do appreciate the writers giving me so much material going out the door," Easton acknowledged, "but from an actor's standpoint, I would have liked to have had just a little more time to add a little more subtlety and a little more nuance to it.

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