Giving Credit Where It's Due
Vanessa: SON Dec. 9, ‘97
Sonny fans aren't the only ones who miss seeing Maurice Benard on General Hospital. So does Vanessa Marcil (Brenda). At a recent soap event, she told everyone how pivotal he was in her life as an actress. "When I first started on the show, I'd never acted before," she said. "They put me with Maurice after I begged them to for over a year. At first, I don't think Maurice wanted to work with me because he thought I sucked. He taught me pretty much everything I ever learned about acting. I became an actress after I worked with him.. He's really fine, too. It's all around a pretty good deal to work with Maurice." But just as she was giving Benard credit for her acting, Wally Kurth (Ned) jokingly said that he was responsible for Marcil's GH success because he was the first person on the show to work with her!