Sawandi Wilson. Victor Chavez/Getty Pictures
Port Charles has a brand new face — and it has the potential to shake issues up for Jonathan Jackson’s Fortunate, simply because the character makes his return.
Sawandi Wilson will be part of the forged of Common Hospital as a personality named Isaiah, Deadline reported. Whereas we don’t know who Isaiah is but, he may have a “connection” to Fortunate, whom Jackson first started enjoying in 1993.
Wilson confirmed the report by way of a publish on Instagram, which he captioned “⚡️NEW CHARACTER UNLOCKED⚡. So excited and grateful to be a part of this!! Port Charles Wha Gwan 😎.”
It’s unclear how lengthy Isaiah will stick round America’s longest-running cleaning soap opera, however his first episode will probably be Monday, August 26.
Common Hospital has had quite a few totally different forged members throughout its 60-year run, together with some acquainted faces. John Stamos obtained his begin on the cleaning soap opera along with his position as Blackie Parish from 1982 to 1984. Though he starred on the present for less than two years, Stamos has mentioned the great affect Common Hospital had […]
Wilson started his profession as a breakdancer earlier than turning to performing. Appropriately, his first performing position got here as a dancer in 2010’s Step Up 3D.
Jonathan Jackson on ‘Common Hospital.’ YouTube
He’s greatest recognized for taking part in Captain Leto within the ultimate season of Star Trek: Discovery, with further roles within the Netflix sequence The Home of Flowers and as Marcus on Prime Video’s Harlem.
Wilson can also be a producer and director. He earned government producer credit for all six episodes of the comedy sequence Date.Love.Repeat., wherein he additionally starred.
Fortunate, in the meantime, final appeared on Common Hospital in 2015, however Jackson made his return because the character on August 23, marking his 386th episode with the cleaning soap.
When cleaning soap opera stars go away their roles, it may be as surprising as their exhibits’ plotlines. Alison Sweeney shocked longtime Days of Our Lives followers in 2014 when she introduced she’d be exiting the sequence after 21 years. “I’ve been on Days of Our Lives since I used to be 16 years previous, and I’ve by no means […]
Jackson teased what followers can count on from his self-described “substantial, actual” return in an interview with TV Insider that ran on August 22.
“[Lucky has] been away for nearly a decade, so I’d say that the explanations for him being away and what he’s been as much as are revealed,” Jackson stated. “He hasn’t simply been sitting in an condominium writing his novel. He’s been as much as stuff.”
Jackson additionally gave a preview of how Fortunate has modified throughout his absence from the display screen.
“I’d say in some methods, he’s probably the most like Luke [Spencer] that he’s ever been,” he stated. “That’s a little bit of the sensation that I get. In 2010 after I got here again, he was a cop and he was attempting to create an id for himself, and in some methods in opposition to his father. I don’t precisely know the place he’s now as a result of we’re simply form of starting nevertheless it simply looks like he’s turn out to be a bit of bit extra like his father as time has gone on.”