Spencer and Trina have emerged as one of the most popular pairings on GENERAL HOSPITAL right now, so when it came time for the couple to share their first kiss, portrayers Nicholas Chavez and Tabyana Ali wanted to make sure the moment was as memorable as it could possibly be!
“We had several rehearsals in Burbank, in Tabyana’s mom’s friend’s hotel room,” Chavez revealed to Soap Opera Digest. “Only Tabyana knows why we were there! I just sort of like, showed up, and was along for the ride.” Added Ali: “I was surprised you said yes!”
However, both actors were aware that practice was crucial for a significant scene like the very first “Sprina” kiss. Actually, Chavez said, “I didn’t even want to practice the kiss as my main motivation. We really wanted to work through the beats and talk through what we were feeling in each moment because Trina had just learned that Curtis might be her biological father. It was important how the kiss was contextualized. The emotional beats were the most crucial, and I sort of felt that whatever physical intimacy came as a result would be a natural outcome of all the work we had done before.
Ali was grateful that her GH co-star felt the same way about the scene that she did. “I was so glad that Nick wanted to break the script down in that way,” she confided. “It really helped me a lot going into it because like he said, it was a question of, ‘How do we swing from the moment that Trina was just in with Portia to this moment where we’re being intimate and not make it seem like we’re being intimate because of what just happened with her parents?’ We wanted to make it more like, “We’re in this together and we’re sharing this moment. We’re healing together.”
Well, we’re pretty sure that most “Sprina” fans will say that it was a job well done! Keep watching GH to see this young love story continue to unfold!