‘General Hospital’ Newcomer Blythe Howard Reacts to Monet’s Surprise Jordan Link

Blythe Howard made her General Hospital debut Wednesday, September 23, as Monet Mitchell, a new lawyer in town who was revealed to be Jordan Ashford’s (Tanisha Harper) sister.

For Howard, who had never worked on a soap opera before, the opportunity immediately caught her attention. “I saw it come through and I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is giving Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, and I don’t get those auditions ever,’” she says. “It was just a really fun, spicy role and I couldn’t pass it up.”

While she hadn’t worked in daytime before, Howard was well-acquainted with the genre. “I grew up watching soaps,” she shares. “My mom watched them. I’ve watched all of them. General Hospital is an OG, so I’m very excited.”

That familiarity, however, couldn’t fully prepare her for the pace of production. “My first day was insane,” she reports. “I was like a deer in the headlights. As an actor, you hear different things about what soaps are, what daytime TV is like, and then you get in there, and it’s nothing like it’s described. You can’t prepare for it. It’s a whirlwind, but it’s so cool, and everyone has been so welcoming and kind and helpful. I just feel seen as a human being, as a person and as an actor, being put in this role.”

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Adding to the pressure was the impressive roster of scene partners she encountered right away, including Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine) and Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis). “It’s all intimidating, especially when you’re working with icons and veterans,” she says. “It’s absolutely amazing what they do.”

Howard is also getting to know Tanisha Harper as their characters’ complicated history begins to emerge. “You’ll find out that we’re estranged,” Howard notes. “But one thing I learned is as an actor is that you don’t know where it’s going to go, so it’s been interesting every time I work with her. It’s unfolding as we move forward, which keeps you on your toes and keeps things very interesting. Finding out how we got to where we are is going to be fun for the audience, I think. Working with Tanisha, we’re finding it, and we’re developing this bond together. She’s so sweet, and it’s been really fun.”

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As for Monet herself, Howard is enjoying discovering the character as the story unfolds. “I like everything about her, really,” Howard shares. “I think Monet is just here to keep everybody on their toes. I love that she’s strong and doesn’t take no for an answer. She goes after what she wants, and she’s not afraid to maybe step on some toes to get what she wants. I love roles like this. I’ve never had anything like Monet, so it’s just very exciting to step into her shoes and figure out who she is along the way. We never know what her angle is going to be or what she’s up to. I think she knows exactly what she’s up to, but everybody else doesn’t. I think that’s pretty fun.”

Howard’s own path to Port Charles began long before she considered acting a career. “Growing up, my sister and I were always creating,” she recalls. “We put on shows, and we were always acting. TV raised us, film raised us. I come from a single-mother home, so she was working, and we were just always watching, so I feel like I’ve always been doing it to my soul, to my bones. But I wanted to be a news anchor forever. I think in third grade is when I fell in love with journalism, and I was on the path to do that. I was playing sports my whole life, so I never did theater.”

She enrolled at Washington State University to pursue broadcast journalism, but an unexpected opportunity sent her in a different direction. “I won a contest to be a DJ for a day on MTV’s [Total Request Live], and I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is what I’m supposed to be doing. This is it,’” she explains. “So, I switched gears. I went to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and that is where school and acting really clicked for me. I mean, I felt it in my bones going to class there, and then I was like, ‘OK, I gotta get to LA.’”

Once in Los Angeles, Howard booked her first commercial within a week and began steadily building her career. “I kept working my way up without an agent — I just kind of figured it out — and then I got my agent after booking a second commercial, and I’ve just been working ever since,” she says. “Along the way, I started coaching commercial actors, and that’s been a really rewarding part of my journey, helping other people. So now I’m here, and it’s been insane, but it’s been a great journey so far.”

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Her creative pursuits also extend to projects with her sister, Kesley. The pair started a production company called RoyJoy — “Roy is named after my dad’s dad, and Joy was my mom’s mom,” Howard explains — and the two wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Unspeakable. “It’s about family dynamics and the sister bond. That started as a scene we wanted to do together, and it turned into a blueprint for a short film, and then we filmed it. Being on the other side of that, we’re really excited to get that out there.”

The Howard sisters, both cancer survivors, have also co-founded Chemo Queens, where they’ve developed a patent-pending cold cap design and created a website, chemoqueens.com, to provide information for other people going through the process. “I feel like at the time we’re looking for resources online, the resources are all over the place,” she notes. “It’s hard to find everything in one place for what you need to get through this, from a diagnosis, then going into treatment, then survivorship. People don’t talk about survivorship enough, and so we’re just bringing everything we know into this so we can give it to other people and they can take what they want from it.”

For now, though, Howard is eager to see where Monet takes her — and the rest of Port Charles. “It’s definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my career,” she concludes. “And I know it’s going to be the best thing that’s ever happened, so I’m really excited to be here.”

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