General Hospital’s Michael Easton Opens Up About His Final Day On Set: ‘I Just Sat in My Dressing Room for About 45 Minutes in the Dark’
General Hospital’s Michael Easton Opens Up About His Final Day On Set: ‘I Just Sat in My Dressing Room for About 45 Minutes in the Dark’
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Losing a job is never easy — especially not one like Michael Easton’s. In a series of roles, he’d been a General Hospital cast member since 2012.
In daytime years, that’s akin to forever. So after being informed that Finn was being written off, he was, as anyone would be “hurt a little bit,” he admits to Soap Opera Digest, “and you get wounded a little bit, and part of your head’s going, ‘Well, just do [the exit material and be done with it.’”
Instead of listen to that part of his head, Easton dug deep and delivered powerful performances that are likely to win him a 2025 Daytime Emmy.
In the end, he was able to leave Port Charles simply grateful for his time there. “If you let anything else enter your heart, it just becomes like poison to you,” he suggests, “and that poison in your heart will halt you from creating beautiful things going forward.”
Easton’s sincerity and thankfulness were plain to see in the video that he posted after wrapping. (Watch it in full here.) “My actual last scenes [that I shot] were with Josh [Swickard, Chase] in the car… We shot it at the end of the night at the studio but outside…
“I was able to hold it in and not shed any tears. After we were done, I just sat in my dressing room for about 45 minutes in the dark.
Everybody went home, and they basically had turned the lights off — I was worried they were going to change my locks on my door before I got out and take away my security pass,” he adds with a laugh. “But I just sat there in the dark for a minute, and then as I was walking out, I thought, ‘The hallways are empty. It’s like a ghost town. Let’s walk out the door and just say goodbye.’”
