General Hospital spoilers say that while he was gone, he wasn’t gone for good. Of course, we are talking about Lucas as it looks like the character is back and here to stay according to his new portrayer, Van Hansis. Keep reading below for everything you need to know.

General Hospital Spoilers: Is The New Lucas Here To Stay?

Speaking to Soap Opera Digest in a new interview, Van hinted that there’s a juicy storyline in the works for his character.

The handsome actor put it this way, “I’m diving into a really exciting storyline and it’s been such a blast to be here and to be working with all these awesome people both in front of and behind the cameras.”

“It’s been really, really thrilling to be back on daytime. This sounds so cheesy, but on both World Turns and on General Hospital, [the studio floor] is a big dark space with all of these sets in a row on other side, and I don’t know, there’s just something really kind of special and magical about it.”

Van continued, “I love being on the soundstage. I’ve done a lot of stuff where I’ve shot on location and that’s fun, too, but when you’re on a soundstage waiting for your scenes or whatever, it’s like the same vibe I got when I was a kid doing local plays, like being backstage at a play.”

“I love going up to the soundstage every day and seeing what the new sets are and everything. Maybe this comes with time and being older and just the ups and downs of a career, but I think it’s really important to take a beat and just kind of live in that [head space] of, ‘I love doing this! Aren’t I lucky?’”

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Van also said that while it’s been a long time since he’s been on a soundstage, it didn’t take him very long to find his groove again.

He said, “It’s been so long since I’ve been on it, but I think especially because that was my first job, it’s what I got used to. So being able to come back to a soap all these years later, it really does feel like, ‘Oh, I know how this world works, I know the sort of intricacies of what daytime it like.’”

“As a genre, I really, really love doing it. I love the pace, I love how quick it is, I love that you get to do something different every day. I’m just really happy to be here.”

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