Lesli Kay reveals how she "nailed" the role of a lifetime
SINKING IN HER CLAWS
Perhaps GH had always been Kay's destiny. As a college student, she'd always go to the student union, where students were glued to the tube, watching Luke and Laura's romance unfold. Although never a devoted daytime viewer, GH was the one show she regularly flipped to. Still, when she headed to L.A. for her screen test, she was a little at loss. "I didn't know a lot about Lois. I did know that she talks more than anybody on God's green earth... and quickly." she says, adding that she had seen predecessor Rena Sofer in the part.
Wanting to give herself the upper hand, as it were, Kay went so far as to apply Lois' signature fake nails! "Normally, that's not a thing that I would do," she explains. "I would figure, 'If I get the part, I'll put the nails on.' But when I saw what a huge part it was of the character, I knew I had to. It helped me reach who the character was. You talk a different way when you have one-inch nails!"
A REUNION WITH NED?
Given the deadliness of Lois' press-ons, Ned is lucky she only slapped him when they came face to face upon her return. "If she doesn't punch him, she's afraid she'll kiss him," says Kay. "They didn't split up on bad terms. It wasn't that they weren't still in love with each other. She just couldn't be around his family, and she didn't want her child to grow up around those people.
