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Brad Rowe talks to Greg In Hollywood about his debut this week on ABC’s “General Hospital”
Brad Rowe checks into the ABC soap General Hospital this week in the role of Murphy Sinclair, an internationally famous movie star who is involved with supermodel Brenda (Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo).Brad is not only a wonderful actor who we loved in the classic gay indies Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss and Shelter, he’s also a straight ally who has been a staunch supporter of LGBT equality.
He posed for the NO H8 campaign and a few weeks back, attended a GLAAD fundraiser in Hancock Park with his wife and son.
That is where we chatted about his General Hospital gig.
“I’m the movie star boyfriend of Vanessa Marcil’s character,” Brad began before I interrupted him and asked if he could say her new extended married name of Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo.
“I know [her husband] Carmine Giovinazzo!” Brad said. “He was in Billy’s [Hollywood Screen Kiss] with me. He was the trippy guy on the sailboat who was all stoned on acid playing the guitar. It comes full circle. And Vanessa and I are old friends through Brian [Austin] Green, we did a pilot way back when and he directed me in a movie Fish Without a Bicycle, and Vanessa and [Brian] were together back then and we actually both have boys who are the same age.”
Brad is a veteran of prime-time television starring in the short-lived TV series Wasteland and Leap of Faith as well as scores of episodic guest spots on such shows as The Mentalist, The Closer, CSI, Ghost Whisperer, Cold Case, How I Met Your Mother, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami, 1-800-Missing and NewsRadio.
“I’ve never done daytime and I was a little freaked out but not by anything more than the page count,” he told me. “I was like holy sh*t. I got my first script and it was like ‘Okay, we’re doing two episodes on one day and we’re going to shoot 153 pages in one day (laughs) and I’m like I’ve got 29 pages of dialogue in one day. … That kind of blew me away. But as long as you’re prepared and you do your stuff, it’s fun. You hang out, they block out a few scenes at a time, and you make sure you get everything out the first take.”
“Right now they’ve got me for 10 episodes,” he said.
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chris says:
i like this … god…shelter is the best place where you can see this man as a great human being, I dont mean physically, he’s cute, we know that, but i mean it, i guess for me he’s more human being that just a cute face in a great body!!!
i dont understan what do he say at the end of the video, may you tell me that, please?!!!
i’ll be back soon, thanks for this!
btw, he’s right, everyone could be smiling around you and you feel very lucky about it, but in the night you still feel a little bit lonely!! too bad, but true… say hi!!!