The news of Brando's death took Wactor by surprise, but it caught many of his co-stars off-guard as well. I'll deal with it when I get back.' Later, I read the scripts and it was like, 'Okay, they killed me off.' The following week, I wrapped my movie on Tuesday, flew back Wednesday morning, got tested for Covid at GH on Wednesday, and then I filmed 60 pages on Thursday and 55 pages on Friday and that was my last six episodes of GH.' Well, I wasn't expecting that today, but I'm about to hop on a plane. My manager told me to call him and he was like, 'Hey, this is what's happened,'' Wactor told Soap Opera Digest. That day, I was flying to New York to shoot a movie that I was producing. 'I found out on Friday, July 29th that I was not going to be renewed for the end of my contract. Wactor shared that he learned he was being let go back in July - but the news of how his character would exit didn't come until later.

That all came to an end last month when his alter ego, Brando Corbin, fell victim to a hook-wielding attacker. For nearly three years, Johnny Wactor has called Port Charles home.

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