Who's Proteus? SID Cover Shoot (SID 1/8/02 and SID Online)

Last summer, Finola Hughes (Anna) playfully complained that her ex-spy character was left out of Pine Valley’s drug trafficking mystery. (Pretty ironic, considering barkeep Mateo is in the thick of things.) But Hughes got her wish, and now Anna is hot on the trail of Proteus. "I think it would just have been very rude not to invite me," laughs the actress. If Devane hadn’t joined the action, Hughes jokes, "I think I would have been throwing darts at somebody. I’m very happy that they did include me. It would have been disastrous if they hadn’t. I would have felt very impotent."

One thing that’s quite potent is Anna’s sizzling sex romps with David, "It’s easy to play those scenes because of his history of being so bad," Hughes muses. "It just makes a lot of sense. It’s very much like The Thomas Crown Affair; they start off playing each other, and then slowly they begin to feel for each other. And we’ll see. I’m not sure how deep the show will go into that."

Now that she’s got intrigue and a hot guy to occupy her time, General Hospital transplant Anna has finally become comfortable in Pine Valley, but Hughes doesn’t want Devane to lose touch with her Port Charles roots. The actress was pleased when Anna’s brother-in-law Mac Scorpio made a brief visit. "Oh, it was great. It was great having [John J. York, Mac] here. And it just felt very easy. I suppose we worked with each other for about a year and a half before I left GH. So it was very familiar. I think what it definitely did was sew up loose ends for the audience. At some point, Anna was either supposed to go back or not. As I didn’t do the crossover, somebody had to come here. And I think that made perfect sense. And of course I’d like to see Kimberly [McCullough, Robin] come back now and again. I haven’t heard, but I would love that. I know she would do it, too." Hughes’ new feature appears in the 1/1 issue of Soap Opera Digest, on sale December 25. 

Hughes and Irizarry shared a laugh while posing for some couple shots.

Thumbing through the latest issue of Soaps In Depth, Irizarry read his and Hughes' Readers' Poll results aloud. While she was voted number three in that particular issue, Hughes joked that she had ranked number one previously.

A few other tidbits:
• Observing her co-stars' all-black attire, Hughes commented, "This is a very dark group." Heck, with this bunch of characters, she could have been referring to their Pine Valley personalities!

Now that viewers know that Vanessa is Proteus, will Chris and Anna be the ones to uncover Mrs. Cortlandt's sinister secret? All we can say is, stay tuned!

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