Time sure flies when you’re a bad guy! Maybe that’s why the past year and four months seem like a blink of an eye. Grey joined General Hospital’s cast in June of 2022 and first aired on the 15th of that month. Since July of 2022, the GH newcomer was placed on recurring status.
Mason Gatlin struck a chord with GH fans from the moment he popped in the scene. Mysterious but on a creepy level, Mason’s no-nonsense interactions became increasingly intimidating with each scene. General Hospital recaps recall that he and his cousin Dr. Austin Gatlin Holt butted heads from the start. But when when Mason interrupted Austin’s news life, no one knew their backstory. Even Maxie had the woo pulled over her eyes as she was trying to get to know the man who delivered her baby.
General Hospital news reports confirm that Grey disclosed GH spoilers in a Ew ent Soaps In Depth interview.
Nathanyael Grey’s Shocking Confession About Mason
GH spoilers reveal that the recent interview sheds light on Mason’s good side- well, sort of. But according to Grey, Mason is not good or bad. Instead, he reveals that Executive Producer Frank Valentini told the actor that Mason is a gray character.
“He’s just doing what he’s told to the best of his ability,” Grey explained. “I tried to reflect that with some of the dialogue that they would allow me to change here and that, that he’s just a guy doing his job, but he’s morally ambiguous with what the job entails.
“One time, they wrote that Mason was directly threatening Georgie,” he added. “I changed the line to ‘Don’t make me.’ Like, ‘I don’t want to do it but I will,’ as opposed to ‘I will totally kidnap a kid!’ Once I knew that Mason’s family has a trucking company and who the boss was, I was like, ‘Oh, okay, well, he doesn’t want to lose his family business, so he kind of has to do these things.’ And Frank [Valentini, GH’s executive producer] backed that up; he said, ‘You’re actually a gray character. You’re not all bad.’”
From the sound of things, it’s possible that General Hospital is prepared to keep Grey on to portray Mason for the foreseeable future. GH Blog with keep fans updated on any GH casting changes regarding Nathabyael’s GH status.