Wright’s Difficult Emmy Decision!

Carly had quite a year on GENERAL HOSPITAL, leaving portrayer Laura Wright with a difficult choice in picking the episode that led to her Lead Actress Daytime Emmy nomination! “I submitted the show after Michael finds out about Sonny and Carly where I lay into Franco,” she reveals. “It was almost a whole entire show with Roger Howarth (Franco).”

She very nearly went with the previous episode with the strong scenes between her and Chad Duell (Michael), but went with the Franco episode after seeking the advice of her family and co-star Michelle Stafford (Nina). “I had a different opinion of everything,” Wright says. “I had Michelle look at them. I knew it was between the two. I just wasn’t sure which one to go with. My daughter, Lauren, and my husband were both, ‘It’s all you in the [Franco] show and the other show is all Chad.'”

Wright knows she’s in good company with the other Lead Actress nominees, but feels there was one major omission: Stafford. “She’s an incredible actress,” she declares. “I know how hard she works. She goes to a place that a lot of people are afraid to go. Michelle goes in with both feet and kills it. She could’ve easily walked away with the statue.”

But she’s excited to support all the other GH nominees on Emmy night, and doesn’t even have the pressure of having to find a gown for the evening! “I already have the dress because I bought it last year,” Wright confides. “I bought two dresses last year. This year, I’m just going to wear the other one, because I love it. It’s been sitting in my closet with tags on it for a year!”