After years of taking part in heroic Ryan Lavery on All My Youngsters, Cameron Mathison was thrown into the deep finish on Normal Hospital when his character, Drew Cain, developed right into a dishonest manipulator.
When TV Insider chatted with Mathison in February, the actor shared that he discovered a few of the issues he was being requested to do as Drew had been troubling.
Nevertheless, based mostly on Mathison’s scenes this week as Drew laid down the regulation over his daughter Scout (Cosette Abinante) and her interfering prolonged household, it’s clear that Mathison has embraced Drew’s darker facet with confidence and magnificence. He will get that unhealthy guys don’t see themselves because the villain. TV Insider is bestowing Daytime Performer of the Week honors on Mathison for his portrayal of the controlling politician.
Drew was understandably deeply involved after being knowledgeable that Scout had gone lacking from Lila’s Children, the day camp named after her late great-grandmother (Anna Lee, ex-Lila) unaware that Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) had taken his sister with out permission again to the Quartermaine mansion.
Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn), Scout’s grandmother, and Jason (Steve Burton), Danny’s father, tried to calm Drew down, however he didn’t budge. He needed Danny arrested. Mathison introduced a powerful gravitas to those scenes, tapping into Drew’s parental concern. Everybody else in Port Charles will get to lift holy hell when their youngsters are in jeopardy. Why can’t Drew?
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“Your grandson broke the regulation,” Drew knowledgeable Alexis in a demeanor that was each managed and livid. “And he’s obtained to know there’s penalties for that. Everyone knows that his felony father isn’t going to show that to him.” (A low blow, however form of true.)
Alexis formidably mixed her courtroom arguing expertise along with her love for her granddaughter, however Drew didn’t let her stroll throughout him. He dismissed Alexis’s level that no decide would punish Danny, an underage teenager, for taking his sister dwelling with out permission.
“I don’t care about that,” Drew overruled. “I would like the arrest on file.”
One among Port Charles’ best, Chase (Joshua Swickard) threw in his two cents, concurring with Alexis that there wasn’t a lot of a case right here. Once more, Drew didn’t budge. He identified to Chase that he wanted to do his job. Realizing he wasn’t going to get anyplace with Chase, Drew composed himself and set free a protracted sigh. Perhaps he wasn’t going to alter Chase’s thoughts, however he wasn’t falling by the wayside.
“I’m simply making an attempt to guard my daughter,” Drew knowledgeable Alexis. She countered that Scout didn’t want saving from Danny. “From Jason, who has taught Danny that the foundations don’t apply to him, which makes him a hazard to Scout,” Drew countered, as if he had been arguing a authorized case towards the savvy lawyer.
We watched Drew make the choice to additional his case by citing Danny’s function in Rocco’s (Finn Carr) latest consuming episode that landed the latter within the hospital. Once more, Alexis deflected, however Drew persevered. He famous to Alexis that Sam (Kelly Monaco), Scout’s late mom, would need him to guard their daughter from Jason’s affect, which incorporates Danny. Alexis made a misstep at this level, believing that her function as Sam’s mom and Scout’s grandmother would someway get Drew to see he was overreacting.
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This wasn’t a tennis match between Drew and Alexis, however he hit her with an overhead slam all the identical. And there’s no returning the ball whenever you’ve been hit with an overhead slam.
“You’re proper,” Drew calmly replied after Alexis knowledgeable him what Sam would and wouldn’t need, hastening so as to add, “I ought to by no means have invoked Sam’s title — as a result of what she’d need or not need doesn’t matter as a result of she’s not right here and I’m.” (Ouch.)
“I’m Scout’s solely dwelling mum or dad and that is what I would like,” Drew continued. “I would like my daughter to really feel protected, protected, and liked. I would like her to know that I’ll all the time do what’s greatest for her. And I would like her to keep away from individuals who always attempt to undermine me each likelihood they get.”
It was clear in his voice inflection that Drew had moved Alexis to the highest of that listing earlier than he pointedly informed her “individuals like you.”
Alexis tried to get management of the scenario by bodily stepping again, nevertheless it was clear in Mathison’s decisions that Drew was completed making an attempt to cause along with her. “It’s too late, Alexis,” Drew firmly said. “I attempted my greatest. I attempted to maintain Scout in your life, however you made that unimaginable.”
Alexis saying she by no means supposed to not preserve him within the loop didn’t matter a lot. “You proved I can’t belief you anymore,” Drew mentioned. “Frow now on, Scout may have no extra contact with you, with Danny, or with anybody else from your loved ones.”
A much less seasoned professional might need resorted to screaming these traces to make this level, however Mathison knew that the ability was within the phrases themselves. Delivering them in a managed vogue allowed Drew to come back out on prime.
It’s not usually that anybody will get the final phrases in on the daughter of Mikkos Cassadine, however Drew did when he merely mentioned, “Goodbye, Alexis.”
Then, he left the Quartermaine mansion. The home might belong to Monica (Leslie Charleson), however Drew — and Mathison — owned these scenes!
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