General Hospital’s Nathan (Ryan Paevey) and Lulu (Alexa Havins) didn’t exactly glide into their relationship There were logistical questions where Maxie (Kirsten Storms) was concerned. Then, his missing seven years which never quite lined up no matter how much she wanted it to. The problem, of course, is that the audience already knows what she doesn’t: “Nathan” isn’t Nathan. He’s Cassius Faison, which changes everything.
Will Lulu start asking the right questions?
Alexa Havins isn’t interested in Lulu being the last to figure it out. She hopes she’s the one who cracks it open. “Lulu knows that there is a mystery about where ‘Nathan’ was for those seven years and what happened to him. And Lulu loves a mystery,” she told Soap Opera Digest.
That instinct is starting to steer how Lulu moves through scenes with him. Havins described layering in that reporter edge, the part of Lulu that doesn’t let things alone when they don’t add up, even if she can’t yet explain why they don’t.
And that’s the tension holding the story together right now. Lulu isn’t suspicious in a loud, accusatory way. She’s been observant, letting small details collect until they start forming something she can’t ignore. She noted that Lulu “feels like there’s something curious here, something interesting, that she can’t quite put her finger on.”
Suspicious minds on General Hospital
Havins brought up a slip Cassius made shortly after their first kiss. Trapped in a snow storm and playing a drinking game, he recalled his father pushing him into science to be useful and reciting the periodic table, which clashed with what Lulu knows about him. As an actress, she noted, “I had my suspicions, but I didn’t know for sure.”
She felt that the writers were creating “an intricate web,” and she caught on to his error. Havins explained she would get dribs and drabs of the story as it played out, forcing her to react in real time alongside the audience.
When it comes to where she wants it to go, she doesn’t hedge her bets. “If there’s a slip of the tongue like that, I want her to clock it. I want her to clock everything! I want her to see it coming.” That’s the version of Lulu she’s leaning into. Not the one who gets blindsided, but the one who puts it together herself, step by step, until the truth doesn’t just come out. It explodes.
