The Young and the Restless alum Daniel Goddard is heading to General Hospital to play a professor.
Goddard, who played Cane Ashby from 2007 to 2019 on Y&R, will show up in Port Charles starting April 15. His new character, Henry Dalton, works at Port Charles University.
“He teaches environmental physics, and it seems there are some things in his past that he’s done that have left him in a position of some form of investigation,” Goddard told TV Insider, which first broke the news about his casting. “And from there, it’s an absolute mystery to me.”
Goddard said it was “an absolute pleasure to be back in daytime” and said “I forever will be grateful to the fans of daytime in general.”
“It goes back to in 2010 when Cane was killed off and fans banded together, rented an airplane, and flew it over CBS with a banner saying, ‘Bring Daniel Goddard back as Cane,’” Goddard told TV Insider. “And I never realized, up until that moment, how the fans of daytime are truly the greatest fans in the world. They see you as the character because you’re in their lives on such a regular basis, and then as the years pass by, they get to know you as your real name. And then you form these relationships through social media and going to fan events, and it’s just a phenomenal fan base that was wonderful.”
Goddard began filming on GH in March. He admits that he didn’t learn much about the character at first.
“I know that the characters that I’ve had scenes with know something about him. I don’t want to know what it is because I don’t want to play it that I know. I’d rather have the character be sort of a clean slate to me,” he told the outlet. “At Young and the Restless, I always used to read the whole script because other characters will talk about you, and you’ll get to know more about you than you know about yourself. At General Hospital, you only get your pages, and I thought, ‘Woody Allen would do that, where he doesn’t want everybody know what’s going on or what the twists and turns are.’ And I thought, ‘This is going to be cool.’ So, I’m allowing myself to go on the journey of who Dalton is from the audience’s perspective, and from my perspective of what is the growth and evolution of him. I will allow it to unfold as the bits and pieces present themselves to me.”
