17 Months After Her ‘General Hospital’ Debut, This Daytime Legend Reveals Who She Sees As Her Character’s ‘Endgame’

Alexa Havins Bruening brought Lulu Spencer back to the cast of General Hospital in November 2024. Now, 17 months later, the actress is opening up about who she sees as her character’s “end game.”

Bruening spoke with Soap Opera Digest about her experience returning to ABC Daytime, having formerly appeared on All My Children as Babe Carey from 2001 to 2007.

During the conversation, the subject of Lulu’s love life came up, as the character appears to be falling for her best friend’s recently back-from-the-dead husband, Nathan West (Ryan Paevey), who is really Nathan’s evil twin brother, Cassius Faison.

But despite the storyline’s current direction, Bruening shared that she always believed Lulu’s ex-husband, Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna), was her true love. “I assumed that them getting back together was kind of the end game,” she explained to the outlet.

The actress added that, despite some of the more complicated storylines she has had thus far, she always tries to play into the connection Lulu and Dante share when they interact, believing that is the ultimate “goal” and finish line for her character.

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As the daughter of General Hospital super-couple Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis), Lulu’s life has been complicated from birth, as she developed aplastic anemia as a child, needing a bone marrow transplant from her brother, Nikolas Cassadine, to survive.

In later years, the character has found herself kidnapped multiple times, been cryogenically frozen and had her eggs harvested by her father’s arch enemy, Stavros Cassadine, had her children kidnapped, and was rendered comatose following a traumatic brain injury, amongst many other stories.

Lulu has had many romances over the years, from her affair with Dillon Quartermaine to falling in love with Jonny Zacchara, but it was her relationship with Dante that defied the odds and proved popular with fans.

The pairing began in 2011 with Julie Marie Berman in the role; it continued in 2013 with Emme Rlyan, and the pair have remained in each other’s orbit to this day.

Fans will have to stay tuned to see if Lulu and Dante are endgame or if the pair will actually find love again with someone else.

General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC and episodes stream weeknights on Hulu.