When General Hospital’s Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) went to Sonny (Maurice Benard) looking for help finding Jason (Steve Burton), there was a sense of urgency there that was more than a kid just missing his father. It felt like he wasn’t just trying to find Jason, but instead he wanted to get involved in his “business.” Once that door opens in Port Charles, it rarely closes cleanly. On his podcast, Steve Burton addressed that exact idea, and didn’t dance around it.
General Hospital’s Burton weighs in on Danny’s path
Burton and Bradford Anderson (Spinelli) discussed the storyline on their podcast That’s Awesome. When the idea of Danny becoming a “Jason 2.0” came up, Burton shut it down immediately. “No. No. No. Why would I want that?” he said, without hesitation.
He didn’t just stop there. Burton made it clear that even if the story has potential, the character perspective doesn’t shift. “If we were telling that story, it would be an interesting story to tell because obviously, I wouldn’t want him…Jason wouldn’t want him to,” he remarked.
What stood out more was how he framed the difference between feeling alive and going too far. “Go ahead and skydive,” Burton said. “You don’t need to go be tracking people down trying to shoot people.”
A story that still has teeth
Burton didn’t dismiss the idea entirely from a storytelling standpoint. He felt the opportunity to tell a good story from the concept was incredible. That’s totally in line with an actor who has lived through Jason’s shift from Quartermaine golden boy to enforcer. That story arc worked and changed everything permanently. Jason was never the same again after he joined Sonny’s world.
But he also made it clear that repeating it isn’t the same as earning it. The world around that story has changed. The stakes are different, the way crime operates is different, and trying to recreate that exact path wouldn’t work the same way it once did.
And that’s where Danny’s desire to walk on Port Charles’ dark side remains. Not fully formed, not committed, but hovering in that space where curiosity starts to look like intent. Burton’s take doesn’t shut the door on the potential drama. It just draws a line between what makes for compelling television and what makes sense for the character.
