General Hospital: Steve Burton Confirms Recast Twist — Jerry Jacks Back?

Hey, General Hospital fans. So, recently on his podcast, Steve Burton aka Jason Morgan piqued fan curiosity. Because he said he’s shooting scenes with an actor who has taken over an established role. That means there’s a recast on set. But there were not a lot of clues otherwise.

So, of course, everybody’s wondering who is this recast. Because it sounds significant. Today we’re going to talk about who this mysterious recast might be and why General Hospital would even bring back the role.

General Hospital Recasts Need to Know Their History

So, I did like hearing the Jason actor saying that it’s important for a recast actor to know the character’s history. Because Burton said it makes it a lot easier for them to take on the role. Plus, with so many characters like Jason and Carly Corinthos (Laura Wright) and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and others, there’s just decades of history there.

And if a new actor hasn’t gotten up to speed, they’re not going to play off of other characters correctly. For instance, if they had recast Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst), and I’m not saying they did, that’s not what this is about. But just if they had, and he came in and was having a chill vibe with Jason, that wouldn’t make any sense because those two have a lot of history. All of it’s negative. So, that’s the kind of thing that comes through when you know your character history.

With that in mind, Burton said, “There’s this new guy that just came on General Hospital.” And he said, “There’s been scenes between Jason and this actor’s character.” And Steve Burton said he asked the other actor if he could give him some info about the character history to maybe make things easier on him.

Major GH Return Coming Soon

Thankfully, Burton said the actor was all for it. So, apparently this is a guy who General Hospital brought in, who’s been acting for a long time. He’s had some prime-time work. It’s somebody who fans are going to be super excited to see and more importantly, they’re going to be excited to see the character he’s taking on. So, let’s dive in and talk about who this recast character might be that’s having all these scenes with Jason Morgan.

Jasper Jacks Returns to General Hospital?

So, one big possibility because of the JJE storyline is that General Hospital could have recast Josslyn Jacks’ (Eden McCoy) dad, Jasper “Jax” Jacks (Ingo Rademacher). Now, this I feel is the least likely. But maybe because the role has been vacant since General Hospital forced Ingo Rademacher out over the COVID vaccine.

That was the same time, same reason that Steve Burton stepped away from General Hospital. Burton’s back because he negotiated a graceful exit. But I doubt they’ll bring back Ingo as Jax at any point because he sued Disney over the vaccine related termination. And usually when an actor sues a network, they won’t work with them again.

Networks don’t like to work with the litigious. But given all the name drops about Jax lately, we have to consider it could be a recast actor playing Josslyn’s dad. And Jax does fit the bill in terms of having scenes with Jason because they’ve got lots of history with Carly being their primary commonality.

Jax in Trouble on GH?

So, if it is a Jax recast, that would make sense. But based on the mysterious and sudden disappearance of Jax from his life and him sailing around on the world, I feel like that may be a lie and he may have been the victim of some sort of foul play. You know, Josslyn’s dad may be tied up on a sailboat somewhere or in a holding cell somewhere. But we don’t necessarily need to see him.

And all of this could be because somebody wants access to JJE and maybe somebody took Jax and they may know that Joss is WSB and wouldn’t take this CEO job. So the perp might have sent Hudson Parker (Troy Lennon Appel) there to get Joss to sign over control of JJE so they can move forward with some sort of sketchy plans.

Jerry Jacks Back on General Hospital?

But again, I actually don’t think it’s going to be Jax. Another character I would be excited to see back is Josslyn’s evil uncle, Jerry Jax. That being said, I would much prefer to have Sebastian Roché back in the role than a recast actor, even a really good one from prime time. However, Sebastian is extremely busy shooting a bunch of projects and he probably wasn’t available or wasn’t willing to take soap salary when he is getting paid to do other things.

I think he’s been on 1923 and a bunch of other stuff. So, Jerry is a character who has scenes and a deep history with Jason. Plus, Carly just name-dropped Jerry talking about the upgrade on the Metro Court security after he attacked the place years ago. And maybe Jax is missing and Jerry’s responsible because Carly did speak to Jax and told him their daughter was WSB. But they didn’t talk after that.

And Carly had no idea Jax was going to give Joss the company or that he was going to go sailing around the world. It’s kind of hinky that he didn’t mention that to her. Not that I can remember her mentioning. So, there is a possibility maybe Jerry is back and has disappeared his brother.

General Hospital Villain Hint

And of course, we have Hudson showing up out of the blue saying Jax wants Josslyn to take over as CEO of JJE. And our leaker said Hudson is not the next big villain. But is connected to the next big villain. So, that is one big red flag. Jerry’s a villain for certain.

So, if they have recast him, Hudson may be his front man. And while Hudson has been nice to Joss, we did see him pummel Ethan Lovett (Christian Howard). He’s clearly terrified of him. And of course, Jerry’s a mega-villain who tried to wipe out all of Port Charles. And Jax didn’t condone anything Jerry did, especially when his brother held a bunch of people hostage in the Metro Court.

That was back in 2007 when he was trying to rob the vault. And since the WSB has Joss looking into subsidiaries of JJE, maybe this all ties back to Jerry and that could be why Hudson is pushing to get Joss to let somebody else take over the company because he’s operating on orders from Jerry Jacks.

Jerry Jacks Return Likely on GH

And I wouldn’t put it past him to be holding his brother Jax hostage. A lot of fans would love to see Jerry return. But it would be an absolute bummer if Sebastian Roché was gone for good. But if this is the recast Steve Burton mentioned, if we are getting Jax’s evil brother back, I would be pretty excited to see who’s playing him.

Now, another potential recast option to consider is Nikolas Cassadine. He and Jason have definitely crossed paths many times over the years, so they could certainly have scenes together. And with Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota) in prison and Laura Collins (Genie Francis) heading to Ireland, she could bring her grandson, Ace Cassadine (Jay and Joey Clay), back. And if so, then it would make sense to bring back a recast Nikolas for his son.

His prison sentence should be done. With Lulu Spencer (Alexa Havins Bruening) out of the coma, Nikolas might want to come check on her. After all, Nik, if you remember, wanted to donate some of his liver to save Lulu’s life. And that was the last time we saw him when Nikolas was tested and then found out he couldn’t donate and was totally bummed. And since we’ve had six different versions of Nikolas, including several temporary fill-ins, a new face to replace Adam Huss, who was the last Nikolas we saw, you know, wouldn’t be that big of a deal.

Nikolas & Britt Reunion on General Hospital?

And there are rumors that Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) and Jason will not last. They’re supposed to reach an endpoint soon. So, bringing back Nikolas to be Britt’s love interest could be really intriguing. And Jason had lots and lots of interactions and history with Nikolas.

So, I think that aligns with what they’re saying, but I don’t know. Feels like a long shot. I would like to see him back, especially with Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) trying to buy Wyndemere at the police auction in mid-September. It would be an interesting dynamic to see Nikolas coming back and maybe wanting to buy Spoon Island out from under him.

However, if it was my preference, I’m leaning towards them recasting villainous Jerry Jacks. And because Carly name dropped Jerry out of nowhere and Jax’s being unreachable, I feel like those are all possible signs. There was a lot of things that Carly could have said about her security system, so name-dropping Jerry feels intentional. We’ll find out soon.