Erika Slezak bought a heat welcome on the set of Normal Hospital from longtime buddy and former One Life to Reside costar Nancy Lee Grahn.
The 2 cleaning soap stars posed for a selfie that Grahn posted on Instagram on Thursday, September 18. And within the caption, she reminisced about Slezak sticking up for her throughout a tense time on One Life to Reside.
As Grahn defined, she took a recurring, non-contract position on OLTL was her first job on tv, and that position meant she was filming scenes as Beverly Wilkes as she was ending faculty. “I had grown up watching OLTL with my mother and sister, so to be working with Judith Gentle [Karen Wolek], Gerald Anthony [Marco Dane], and Erika Slezak [Victoria Lord] was surreal and thrilling,” she stated.
4 years later, Grahn nonetheless didn’t have a contract and was free to pursue different alternatives so long as she gave her OLTL bosses seven days discover. So when she determined to maneuver to Los Angeles — the place she was screen-testing for a job within the 1981 NBC miniseries The Gangster Chronicles — she exercised that proper. That’s when producer Joe Stuart took authorized motion, and Slezak took up her protection, Grahn wrote.
“[Stuart] sued me for leaving, despite the fact that I had each proper to go away,” she recounted. “I used to be very younger and intimidated by this menace and went to Erika for recommendation. Erika, with out being requested to, went instantly into her [boss’s] workplace and advised him in no unsure phrases that what he was doing was unconscionable, imply, and unwarranted. She bought proper in the course of a lawsuit and stood up for me, as a result of she believed what her boss was doing to me was mistaken and undeserved. She spoke up for me. That’s the type of girl Erika is.”
Grahn additionally hailed Slezak as an “excellent, consummate, well-awarded actress” who mentored her in “how one can be truthful and efficient” within the TV business.
“So, to fulfill up along with her once more after a long time, nonetheless stunning and stylish as all the time, was a real pleasure,” Grahn wrote. “It’s no secret how a lot I respect and respect formidable, brave ladies, and Erika is certainly certainly one of them. BTW, My case was settled in arbitration, and I received.”
Now Slezak is becoming a member of Grahn on Normal Hospital, on which Grahn has been taking part in Alexis Davis since 1996. Slezak, a six-time Daytime Emmy winner, is debuting a brand new character in a short-term position on the ABC cleaning soap this fall. “She’s a category act and a powerhouse,” co-head writers Elizabeth Korte and Chris Van Etten beforehand raved in a preview of the GH motion to come back. “We will’t wait to see how her character challenges the established order in Port Charles.”
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