Nicholas Alexander Chavez speculates about the return of his soap character

In daytime series, the dead don't really die.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez, whose star is currently on the rise due to his role as Lyle Menéndez in Ryan Murphy's Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik MenendezHe played the character Spencer Cassadine for four years General Hospital. Although Cassadine breathed his last in the January 2024 episode “A Small Gamble,” Chavez knows that doesn't mean he will be either Really gone.

“No,” he told TV Line when asked if he was done with the daytime soap. “Port Charles is a crazy place. We have to see what happens,” he said.

Chavez has played Prince Spencer Stefan Nikolosovich Cassadine since 2021, but the character was first introduced on the soap in 2006. Then he was played by twin baby actors Caden and Nicholas Laughlin, and as the character grew older, he was played by Nathan and Spencer Casamassima. Lance Doven, Davin Ransom, Nicolas Bechtel and Rami Yousef (no, not Ramy Youssef).

While daytime soaps don't often garner the same critical acclaim or awards as expensive streaming miniseries, Chavez was able to showcase a remarkable range of credentials in his 358 episodes as Cassadine. He stalked his mother-in-law and even anonymously gave her a wrapped cockroach, served time in prison, tampered with an art gallery's sprinkler system to rain down fake blood, went back to prison, held a celebrity at knifepoint, and ultimately died after him was injected with a deadly substance and fell overboard into the Seine.

Because it's so common for actors to leave soaps to work on other projects and then return even after their characters are killed off, Chavez isn't as likely to return to Port Charles as he was in January.

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After receiving positive reviews for his work MonsterMurphy cast him opposite Father Charlie Mayhew in the horror procedural grotesque. Ryan Murphy's cinematic universe is something of a soap opera of its own, with the same extended cast of actors appearing in different roles in different projects – and sometimes multiple roles in the same project.

Reports in April suggested that Chavez's exit from the series was intended to be temporary, but that grotesque The role was the deciding factor for the permanent vacation. His name has since been removed from the show's credits.

For his role, Chavez won a 2022 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Actor in a Drama Series General Hospital Perfomance. He may be looking forward to more Emmy glory at the glamorous primetime ceremony Monsterwhich earned Niecy Nash Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her role in the final installment of the Murphy anthology, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.