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Nikolas Cassadine had been sitting in Pentonville the last time General Hospital checked in on him, with not much else offered by way of resolution. Adam Huss, meanwhile, has continued to be a constant presence in his fans' lives as he pursues other projects. When Huss recently revealed his new holiday film, it was clear that its story is something that soap fans would totally dig.
General Hospital’s Adam Huss leans into reality-TV chaos
Huss spoke with Soaps.com recently about Mistletoe Mansion, a Christmas romance that leaned hard into reality-show mechanics instead of pretending they didn’t exist. He summed it up plainly, saying, “If anyone who’s a fan of The Bachelor or Bachelorette, which I know there are a lot out there…it’s a mashup of a wonderful Hallmark Christmas movie meets one of those reality shows with two very fun reality stars in the movie as well."
The setup gave Huss a role he clearly enjoyed poking at from the inside, playing Jimmy, the director of a dating show who still believes in tidy endings even as everything around him works against that idea. The movie pulls in real reality-TV faces, which gives it an edge of awareness without turning it into a joke about itself, letting the mess play out instead of stopping to point at it.
Huss said it didn’t take long to feel like his kind of project, the tone clicking almost immediately once he started reading and realized it was happy to be funny without undercutting its own heart. “As soon as I started reading it, I was like, ‘Oh, this is funny and heartfelt,’” he said, making the film sound like a deliberate collision of genres. (Find out about Huss’ Hollywood Museum experience.)
Why it feels timely
Huss brought up UnREAL as a reference point, not as something to copy but as a shared sensibility rooted in what happens once romance becomes a product. It’s the point where everyone involved starts chasing a different ending, and the mess lives just off camera. For an audience already used to soap logic and reality-TV sleight of hand, the overlap didn’t feel accidental; it felt like the joke everyone was already in on.
Huss framed the appeal as a matter of timing more than trend-chasing, noting, “I just feel like this is so in the zeitgeist of what people are wanting right now,” which tracked with how viewers bounce between sincerity and spectacle without much friction.
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Offscreen, he talked about liking reality TV in theory more than in practice, rattling off the shows he’d fallen into over the years before admitting the seasons pile up faster than he can keep up with. Between acting, writing, and trying to get his own projects moving, it didn’t sound like dismissal so much as self-preservation, which made stepping into a holiday movie that plays with reality-show chaos feel less like a stunt and more like leaning into something he already understands very well.
General Hospital can be seen weekdays on ABC and Hulu.
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