Nicholas Chavez and Tabyana Ali talked with Soap Opera Digest to discuss their "General Hospital" characters and touched upon Spencer and Trina's first kiss, which they'd rehearsed outside of the studio. Chavez explained that the need to rehearse was not centered around the two kissing, but rather how they could make the scene believable to the audience. "Because it was coming on the heels of Trina learning [that Curtis might be her biological father and Portia had kept it a secret]," he said. "I was like, "Okay, we're not going from A to B, we're going all the way from A to Z! How do we make the emotional gymnastics of that work?"
Specifically, he wanted to map out the moment-to-moment path of the scene, explaining, "The emotional beats were most important, and I just sort of trusted that whatever physical intimacy resulted from that would be the natural response from all the work we'd done prior to it."
Ali was happy that Chavez suggested that method of analyzing the scene, finding it helpful to bridge the emotion from Trina learning her mother's secret to her and Spencer's kiss. "It was a question of, 'How do we swing from the moment that Trina was just in with Portia to this moment where we're being intimate, and not make it seem like we're being intimate because of what just happened with her parents?'" she explained. "We wanted to make it more like, 'We're in this together and we're sharing this moment. We're healing together.'"
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