The actress, who is set to return as Heather for an upcoming arc, reveled in portraying the role. “I wrote him an email right away and said, ‘I’m assuming this is fine because I’m not under contract right now, but I wanted to have the courtesy to write you and tell you how much I love working with you, and this is just something new and different.’ There was no problem at all, and when I saw him after that at a B&B party, he couldn’t have been sweeter about it.” “Brad’s assistant, Jen, is a big Heather Webber fan so she made him watch it and apparently, they loved it,” she smiles. I was in a very aggressive frame of mind.”Īnd, her B&B boss, Bradley Bell, executive producer/head writer, gave the actress his blessing. I had a good three weeks to do all of that, so I was ready to rock it. I watched everything Robin Mattson ever did, and even the Heathers before her, too. I had done a lot of research by that point.
I was excited because it was something new and different. Whether anyone else knows it, she’s the smartest one in the room. “I’ve never played a character like that before,” she shares. Several factors attracted Mills to the role.
I went in and did it and it ended up being close to 30 episodes.” It was supposed to be just 10 episodes and it sounded like fun. I read the breakdown of the character, and Robin Mattson couldn’t come back, and it was the 60th anniversary. How they drew the line from Pamela Douglas to Heather Webber, I don’t know, but Orson always said when you have to make a decision that you’re not really sure of, just put the proverbial gun to your head because inside, your gut knows.
Probably.’ About three months later, I got this phone call and Frank Valentini had heard from the head writer. ‘We were just talking and yours and Orson’s name came up and he goes, ‘I love Pam! Would she ever do GH?’ That was pretty soon after Orson died and I said, ‘I don’t know. “One night over a martini, my friend called me and he said, ‘Would you ever think of doing GENERAL HOSPITAL?’ This was months and months ago. “I have a friend who is a Broadway actor and he lives in a cul-de-sac in the Catskills, as does the head writer of GENERAL HOSPITAL,” recounts Mills as to how the opportunity came about. Alley Mills, who is still recurring on B&B, was as surprised as anyone when she got the call from GH to play the soap’s favorite female psycho, Heather Webber, a role previously portrayed by Robin Mattson, who was unavailable at the time.
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