Nicholas Alexander Chavez says his dead “General Hospital” character may resurrect: 'Port Charles is a crazy place'

The Spencer Cassadine character has left and returned to the series many times - but will he ever again be played by Chavez?

The dead don't truly die on daytime soaps.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez, whose star is currently on the rise due to his role as Lyle Menéndez on Ryan Murphy's Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story, played the character Spencer Cassadine for four years on General Hospital. Though Cassadine took his last breath on the January 2024 episode "A Small Gamble," Chavez knows that doesn't mean he's really gone.

"No," he told TV Line when asked if he's done with the daytime soap. "Port Charles is a crazy place. We’ll have to see what happens," he said.

Chavez has played Prince Spencer Stefan Nikolosovich Cassadine since 2021, but the character was first introduced on the soap in 2006. Then he was played by twin baby actors Caden and Nicholas Laughlin, and as the character aged up was played by Nathan and Spencer Casamassima, Lance Doven, Davin Ransom, Nicolas Bechtel, and Rami Yousef (no, not Ramy Youssef).

Though daytime soaps don't often earn the same critical or awards glory accorded to expensive streaming miniseries, Chavez got to display considerable range in his 358 episodes as Cassadine. He stalked his mother-in-law, going as far as anonymously gifting her an encased roach, served time in jail, rigged the sprinkler system of an art gallery to rain down fake blood, went to jail again, held a socialite at knifepoint, and ultimately died after being injected with a lethal substance and falling overboard into the River Seine.

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Because it's so common for actors to leave soaps to work on other projects and then return, even after their characters are killed off, it doesn't seem as likely Chavez will return to Port Charles as it did in January.

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After he attracted favorable reviews for his work on Monsters, Murphy cast him Father Charlie Mayhew on the horror procedural Grotesquerie. The Ryan Murphy cinematic universe is something of its own soap opera, with the same extended cast of players popping up in different roles in different projects — and sometimes multiple roles in the same project.

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Reports back in April indicated that Chavez's leave from the series was intended to be temporary, but the Grotesquerie role had moved the needle over to permanent leave. His name has since been removed from the show's closing credits.

Chavez won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series in 2022 for his General Hospital performance. He may be looking forward to further Emmys glory at the glamorous primetime ceremony for Monsters, which won Niecy Nash an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her role in the last iteration of the Murphy anthology, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

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