Longtime ‘General Hospital’ star reveals her time on the soap is ‘over,’ but teases ‘biggest role’ ahead

“So, my chapter with ‘General Hospital’ is over,” he explained. “The writing has been on the wall for a long time.”

It’s been over a year since Marcus Taggert hit America’s TV screens General Hospitalbut the actor who plays him, Réal Andrews, finally gets clear about his fate in the daytime soap.

Andrews, who first played the character from 1996 to 2003, and again from 2020 to 2023, began his Instagram video by acknowledging fans: “It’s been over a year since I’ve been questions,” to which he responded, “Probably not the answers you want to hear, but it’s all great.”

“So my chapter with General Hospital it’s over,” he explained. “The writing has been on the wall for a long time … and I wanted to come here because you guys have been phenomenal, the best, amazing fans.”

Andrews said it “has been an incredible journey,” before thanking the executives, producers, writers and creatives behind the series for giving him the opportunity.

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In his final scene on the show, his character had a memorable breakup after learning that his daughter was not biologically related to him as he had previously thought. In her Instagram video, she acknowledged that fans might not be happy with where things ended with her character.

“I know a lot of you are going to be, like, mad or whatever, and I appreciate it, I’m grateful for that, but you know what? It’s been an amazing ride, hasn’t it? And I love that I can, when you think about it, come out at the top, I mean, man, the last few scenes I shot, I mean, as an actor, I couldn’t have asked for anything more, Frank (Valentini, executive producer). I’ve written you amazing stuff,’ and he did. .. Being blessed to be on a show like General HospitalI mean, it really is a blessing, from top to bottom.”

Elsewhere in the video, he added: “God said that chapter of my life is closed. Yeah, it was great, and I was able to come out with the material that I was blessed with. I mean, what a dream for to an actor, to be able to come out with material like this.”

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Andrews also teased an exciting opportunity that is in the works. “I’ve been offered what is the biggest role of my life. It’s (with) the biggest and best network, the best director, producers, writers, in my opinion, in the industry,” he teased. “We’re in pre-production for it. I signed an NDA, so I can’t talk about it, but it’s huge.”

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He added: “When I get to share it with you, it’s going to blow your mind… It’s the biggest project of my life, ever. The biggest. And it all comes together, and it happens for a reason, right? Everything I’ve done in my entire life was for this moment right here.”

Watch Andrews’ full video above.

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