‘General Hospital’ (GH): Maurice Benard Wants A Sonny & Laura Romance – Why It Could Work!
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Sure we know that Sonny Corinthos [Maurice Benard] is about to walk down the aisle (yet again) with Carly Corinthos [Laura Wright], but he may already have his eye on another romance. At least that’s what Sonny portrayer Benard is hoping. In a recent interview with Soap Opera Digest, Benard said he’d like to see Sonny in a romance with Laura Spencer [Genie Francis], so today we thought we’d take a look at what that would look like, what it would take to make it happen and how it could play out.
Minus: Sonny and Carly would need to split up first
It’s true that Sonny and Carly need to break up first but, let’s be realistic, they are going to split up anyway. Carly and Sonny are the most volatile couple in Port Charles and they’ve been off more than they’ve been on – so it’s just a matter of time before they’ve had enough of each other. This is not much of an obstacle, although we’d likely have to wait for the ink to dry on their latest marriage certificate before we start drafting their divorce papers!
Plus: Laura likes kids and Sonny has plenty
Both Laura and Sonny like kids and between them, they have plenty – particularly on Sonny’s part. They have grown kids and they even have grandkids, so that’s a good thing. Laura wouldn’t mind playing mom to baby Avery – and they are both family-centric and more of ‘hang around the house with the kids’ people than party people. Plus, Laura has no career and Sonny would dig a traditional stay at home type lady.
Minus: If they got married, Dante and Lulu would be icked out
As mentioned above, they both have a grandkid – problem is, it’s the same grandkid! If they ever got married, that would make the already-wed Dante Falconeri [Dominic Zamprogna] and Lulu Spencer [Emme Rylan] into step-brother and step-sister while still being spouses. That seems like retroactive, weird, step-incest. Kind of icky. But they could all adjust. Another minus for little baby Rocco is that he’d lose out on a grandparent gift if Sonny and Carly hook up.
Plus/Minus: They both have a history of mental illness
This is both a plus and a minus. Since both Laura and Sonny have struggled with mental illness, they are well-equipped to be patient and understanding if one has a relapse. But, on the down side, what if they both relapse at the same time? What a mess for baby Avery! Â Hard to say which way this consideration of their relationship would go.
Plus: She knows how to look past the illegal stuff
Laura is well-versed in turning a blind eye on shady business. She would not bug Sonny about his illegal goings on and, if it ever leaked over into their household, Laura knows how to handle a gun and wouldn’t hesitate to defend herself, Sonny or baby Avery. Laura still knows how to be dangerous when she needs to be and could even help Sonny in the biz if he wanted to. In fact, Laura may have a wider knowledge base than Sonny given all her adventures with Luke Spencer [Anthony Geary].
We have to agree – Maurice Benard had a great idea proposing a romance between Sonny and Laura. It could be fun to watch and would give Sonny an age-appropriate change of pace with his romances and would shake up Port Charles with a never-before-seen coupling of fascinating legacy characters. We’re ready – Shelly Altman, Jean Passanante, are you listening?
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I think Sonny could have a relationship with Laura. Sonny is my love on GH. Sonny could be with who ever he wants, the ladies melt, when he smiles. The most handsome character, it would be a good idea.I love everything about him.
Why are we splitting up Sonny and Carly?
Thanks!
It would definantly be something different
I would love a story line with these two Icon’s in the world of soap operas.. I want to see General Hospital bring Genia Francis’s character (Laura Spencer) permanently.. She’s an amazing actress .. I can think of any number of ways that she could tie so many story lines together .,now hearing that there will be another Cassindine returning to Port Charles .. He could be obsessed with Laura as well .. Since the star is in a certain age group..,I’m looking forward to seeing more of how the old GH was .. Staying loyal to their long time characters that has kept fans watching for generations..,I watched with my grandmother and I’m in my early 60’s .., this should tell the poets that be a few things I hope .. No one ever watched soaps as much though until those great story lines of Laura and Scotty.. Then Luke and Laura .. I think she will always be The ultimate soap opera queen !!!
I thought and I voted not sure , but to look at them together they do look kinda cute .. certainly do not want her with Sloan for sure. thinking about others that are on the show really do not see her with any of them either … maybe a newcomer . but could work with Sonny
Noooooo. We just got Sonny an Carly back together….I thought it would never happen….Leave them alone and let those two be happy..
Carly and sonny forever nobody will work except Carley nobody anybody else would be a devastating and please don’t take sonny out hope not because won’t be worth watching his gorgeous smile is why I started watching general hospital because of sonny and Carly that’s general hospital.
My initial thought was no but this picture is so adorable that now I’m thinking it could totally work. I’m so happy Luke is off the show that I’m game for whatever when it comes to Laura’s new love interest. Bring it on!
I don’t know how you could ever possibly be happy that Luke is off the show.
Admittedly, they’ve botched Anthony Geary’s storyline up brutally in the last year or better, but Anthony Geary will forever remain an undeniable talent and one of the most remarkable actors to ever grace a soap opera. He’s a titan of the soap opera industry, and he’ll be sorely missed.
The man was brilliant, even when they gave him complete drivel to work with.
I don’t particularly want to see Laura and Sonny together – it would be an interesting dynamic to see, I’ll admit, but I think Sonny needs somebody with more personality who will challenge him more. Carly is perfect for Sonny in many ways, in my estimation – although, they will inevitably break up again. It IS a soap opera, after all.
I WOULD much rather see Sonny get a new love interest in Laura, though, than have them bring the likes of Brenda back AGAIN.
Why can’t Sonny n Carly be Mr.nMrs.Stiller?
Now that Luke got the best plot for the umpteenth time and ??won??
The award, maybe someone else will get some great writing and get a fair shot at the award.
Sonnie is the best and Maurice deserved better.
Thx
Carly and Sonny. Belong together..yayyyyy.love them
Let sonny and Carly stay together. The.y are not .even married yet. Laura belongs with Luke. Figure it out. Thank you for getting rid of carlevati. He ruined the show.Do
How could you make jokes about MENTAL ILLNESS ?????? Obviously u know NOTHING about the subject since you commented how Sonny and Laura could share their meds ?! I think you guys are imbeciles !!
Mental illness is NOTHING to joke about , it is a very serious disease.
Guess u just proved ANYONE could have their own website , even idiots like you .
Thank you for your kind comment. Perhaps you should read up on what satire is. This is not a comment on Mental Illness and of course mental illness is serious. Have a nice day!!
I do too can’t see no other way
Sonny and Carly belong together! Please do not break them up for spiny to be with Laura I couldn’t even picture those two together!
I think sonnt and carly on and off again makes them look exciting for their story cause they fight but come right back no mattet what. Leave them alone.
I agree they know each other in and out
It could work….all they have to do is make Dante have a different father. Liv could’ve slept with someone else (even if a one night stand and she just thought Sonny was the father). With all the dead come back life (little Jake especially, that’s one death that NEVER should have happened)it work. Then there wouldn’t be any icky feelings between them since they would not be related. I wish they would bring back Stephan….they were great together also. I want Jax back to mix it up with Carly and Sonny, Brenda would be awesome as long as she speaks normally (not the low voice you barely hear). I wouldn’t want her back if they are only going to make her cry either. She was a strong person at one time. I wish they would get this Jake/Jason thing rapped up…so tired of waiting on that, it’s been too long. I honestly don’t know why I am still watching, hoping these new writers will jazz it back up to par. Sonny and Laura would work as long as the writers do it the right way. Dislike Valerie, want the old Lulu back. Rant over lol
Love Sonny nd Carly together but we all know it’s a matter if time before they split. So yes I think Sonny and Laura would make a great couple, would live to see those two together.
I cannot wait when Lulu finds out that Dante her loving husband slept with that tramp Valerie her so call cousin. I wouldn’t be surprised if Dante put a
bun in her oven Valeries pregnancy That would be
interesting. I would like to see that storyline. Also that
storyline between Sonny and Laura I don’t think so .
I think Sonny should be killed off never pays for his
crimes.
I hope sonny lives and you might be right Valerie might be pregnant
Sonny? Killed off?
You’re INSANE.
Maurice Bernard is a constant bright spot in General Hospital, regardless of the often terrible writing. He is a credit to the industry, and GH has been fighting for years to keep him on the show. They’re not about to kill him off now unless he wants out.
Especially with Anthony Geary gone now. Losing Maurice Bernard at this point would probably be the death of General Hospital, and you’re positively crazy if you think otherwise.
No never put them together that would never work plus sonny & Luke are good friends And sonny would Never ever Brake the bro code that Luke’s live & would never desrespicked luke like that
No no no no please don’t put them together.
Laura is too boring for sonny!!Luke was the only thing that made her interesting at all and I just can’t see her with sonny!! Sonny needs” over the top women” but I would actually love to see him and Carly stay together ,,,,,for a good while anyway! Carly has changed and I can def see her staying married to him and keeping things exciting! I love these two together! I love thier family! Nope! Laura needs to find someone else! Sonny is off limits!! Besides sonny knows Luke is the love of her life and Carlyis his! There are plenty of story lines that could keep sonny and Carly together and still be greatly exciting!!! Valerie needs to go!!! Can’t stand her!!
Yes laurel is boring she does not have the excitement that Carly has not for him only body that could work would be the first Carly and never Brenda couldn’t stand her.
Absolutely not.
I have been watching soaps most of my life. I stayed with this one because everyone in the cast hasn’t slept or been with everyone else. It seemed to come across as being more believable with relationships. Please don’t make this soap sleazy and cheesy too. Let Carly and Sonny finally stay together. For a long while anyway.
No way! Laura and Luke were great together. Adventurous! Laura and Sonny are not a match, and never will be. He matches with Carly and always did. I never understood why the writer kept throwing Sonny with other women, who were no way a match for him. Carlys’ character is the only one that can deal with Sonny. They go way back to when she first finds out about his illness and how manic he was. She stuck by him regardless and saw him through that. Leave them alone for once! Even mobsters have a wife and kids. They keep business separate. You want to do something right? Put Sam back with Jason. Her current relations with Patrick is boring! Hes a doctor and she is adventrous. Bring Robin back to her husband! They were both doctors, and as great as a doctor the writer made Robin, why is she off the show? She bring someone back from the dead, and then she is hidden. That makes no sense. As for Jake, there is no way within days Hayden is gaining memory back about Nicholas and Jason still nothing? The whole story line is boring except for the fact that Carly and Sonny are finally back together.
I agree
I agree. Please let Sonny and Carly get married and put Sam and Jason back together. Otherwise, the show will flop. No Laura and Sonny, how ridiculous!
Don’t break up Sonny and Carly I love those two together. Please end the Jason memory loss story and put him back with Sam. Bring Robin back too Jason belongs with Sonny as a bad guy. His relationship with Liz will blow up soon.
No! Sonny and Carly are finally going to be the mature married couple of Port Charles. Let them stay together, we need a stable solid couple for their messed up kids to be there for them. Love Sonny and Carly together. After Sonny recovers from that gunshot wound of course!
Yes I agree I love Sonny & Carly together I just don’t see him with laura at all
I think it won’t be worth watching general hospital trust me writers people not gonna be watching if you take off sonny and Carley left without sonny can’t stand this only power couple on there could be two power couples if you put the real Jason from young and the restless back on general cause they got him playing a stupid role put back with his wife sam
Noooo most definitely not… Laura is to conservative for Sonny , can’t picture those 2 making love .., no leave him with Carly perfect pair…. I love Laura but she is boring put her back with Scotty …..!
Sonny and Brenda FOREVER!!! They’ve written Sonny’s character to match Carly’s gutter style character. That’s not the original Sonny. The original Sonny was and will always be totally in love with Brenda, (just watch the old clips of those young lovers). Carly knows that, she chooses to believe that since she gave him Michael, maybe he owes her something. How can you sleep with a man and then decide he’s not the father. I know this is soap world, but how can you justify Carly sleeping around and getting to choose the father, any father. Because at first she chose Jason as the father. Later on, she changed her mind and chose Sonny as the father. Only Carly and Jason are allowed to do that. Speaking of Jason, I’m so glad Steve Burton left GH. I stopped watching the Sonny, Jason & Carly show. Basically, what I’m saying is this marriage, #205, will not last. When the show gets boring, or ratings drop, Sonny has to marry Carly. Sonny belongs with Brenda and only Brenda.
I cannot describe how insanely wrong I find the entirety of your comment.
First and foremost, Brenda and Sonny – while a decent pairing when they were originally together…what, twenty years ago? – are terrible together now. As far as I’m concerned, Brenda should never come back to the show again.
Carly is pretty much perfect for Sonny. The writers insist on breaking them up and putting them back together all the time, but they should actually just leave them together. Sonny and Carly have seen each other through some of the worst times in each other’s lives, and that means something. They have stood beside each other in their darkest moments and have seen each other at their absolute worst, but manage to still love each other in spite of – and maybe even because – of those things.
And Carly can hold her own in Sonny’s world, which Brenda can’t.
You’re terribly uninformed. Carly didn’t just pick and choose Michael’s father – and you completely neglected to mention AJ, who was actually his biological father. If you watched General Hospital at that point in time, you would remember that Carly had a very good reason for wanting to hide the fact that AJ was Michael’s father – she didn’t want AJ, who was a terrible man, anywhere near her son.
Jason, as her best friend, helped her stop that from happening.
Sonny later adopted Michael.
And I do not understand how anyone could ever be glad that Steve Burton left. The show is not the same without him. Steve Burton had amazing chemistry with all of his former co-stars – such as Maurice Bernard, Laura Wright, Rebecca Herbst, Kelly Monaco, Kirsten Storms, Chad Duell, Kimberly McCullough, Leslie Charleson, and Bradford Anderson.
Yes, AJ is Michael’s biological father, and he was an alcoholic. But didn’t Carly think Tony Jones (who happened to be her mother’s husband) was the baby daddy. Carly is such a virtuous person.
Can you blame him, he wants excitement. With Carly, been there done that. I’d like to see him with Laura. Luke will understand 🙂
Time for Jake to remember he is JASON! He is Sam’s Husband!!! No to Sonny and Laura. Great that “Michael”, son of Sonny is back. I didn’t like him the past couple months. Carly and Sonny need to get married!!!! Maybe it will last for awhile…Hope to see Robin back in Patrick’s life…
You need to leave Carly and Sonny together to grow old like Edward and Lila! It could work. Mob families stay together also like others! The Sonny and Laura thing could be a funny twist but… No go!! Don’t ever let Sonny be off show or don’t make him crippled no one would want that!! My thought who shot him could be sneaky snake Rick who has always been jealous of Sonny. Why did he come back really!! Then the other twist could be Ava with her connects out there and Julian having no clue or involvement. Then he could join ranks at later date.
No to sonny and Laura and keep Eliz and jason together she deserves to be happy to once not Sam please
Let’s make good thing happened for awhile this is getting old I think about not watching anymore bring ric and nicklos down over it Nina Franco bring them together p
This identity of Jake / Jason dragged out way too long portraying Elizabeth as selfish individual for heaven sake keep Carley and Sonny together some of the things GH is showing really losing my interest also my daughters as well, story is all over the map try ending some of them. But it would be nice to see some happy things or at least aparantly Sonny must live don’t take Carley away from him they’re enjoyable to watch
Sonny and Laura wouldn’t work out because sonny doesn’t have morals and Laura does.They would be in each other throat…lol
I love this idea of Sonny and Laura …it’s not a story line that has been done (to my memory) I do love Sonny and Carly together right now – but let’s face it they break up and get back together over and over again … They never let them stay together and we’ve done the Laura and Scotty story line till we are all sick of it! This would something new and different and finally give Laura a great story line!! The different directions it could go are endless !! I hope it’s considered!!
Please let sonny and Carly stay together and I agree I want Jason back and with Sam not Elizabeth .
Jason and Sam together. Sonny and Carly married. Elizabeth and Lucky back together. Patrick and Robin reunited
I don’t think they would make a good couple. I need robin and her husband get back together. Please. Her daughter needs her.
No way! !!!!!!!! Please keep Sonny and Carly together. Laura is off let her stay off she does nothing for the show. I love Sonny to the end and want him to stay with Carly!!!!!!.
Absolutely not! They do not go together and this is Luke’s girl! Luke’s story! He will be back he always does so no. It does not fit. Leave he and carly alone this storyline will get good with sonny and carly together. Holding their family together
I thought that Olivia and Sonny had a lot of chemistry together. Obviously Sonny and Carly can’t get along with each other for very long. If it doesn’t work the first time around, especially the second time around- by the third time- it’s a strikeout. Forget the fourth, fifth…I lost count on how many times they got back together. Same with Brenda
As for Scotty and Laura-forget it. He’s such a jerk, and a sworn enemy of Luke’s.
I adore Sonny and would like to see him and Olivia ( the mother of his oldest child child, Dante) together again.
No, no, we have waited to long for Sonny and Carly back together.again. The show has been without two major families for a long time. Finally the Corinthos family is back together and strong again. Laura does not fit into the equation. Give Laura someone new or bring back Steffan Cassidine. Scott was Lauras first love. Just not Sonny. He and Carly are a super couple the way Laura and Luke were.
I do not want Sony to leave at all.. I love how so much.. Ilove him and Carly and always have. not happy if he leaves… please Don’t LEAVE
Having watched this show since the late ’70’s, I pretty much know and understand the characters and their histories. First of all, I feel that a “Sonny and Laura” coupling may be incredibly boring. While each character has their own interesting personalities, together they might make each less interesting. In the past couple of years the writing and storylines have become VERY bizarre (not in a good way either), non-believable (even for a soap) and non-interesting. The “Little Jake” “coming back to life” was the WORST and I was appalled at it! Why are all of these crimes unpunished in Port Charles anyway! No matter what the crime, nonr of the characters ever seek retribution nor do the legal authorities ever get involved! It’s like “oh, they’re back-OK”! What the heck is THAT about? The “Jake/Jason” storyline is WAY TOO LONG and in itself has lost any allure! Also, given the relationship that the writers have conditioned us to believe in certainly would include Sam having SOME inclination of who he really is! IDK but having watched GH as long as I have I just expect more from a long standing series like GH. Can we not being back fun, suspense-filled storylines (without dragging them on until “sweeps”) that has always been “General Hospital”?
Oh and BTW that storyline involving “Luke” was BEYOND ridiculous, hard to follow and even now makes NO sense! Having seen it until the end I STILL don’t understand what happened to Luke!! ?
Sonny and Laura have no chemistry and would be a disastrous pairing. I have watched Sonny and Carly from the very beginning of their love story and even through cast changes of Carly’s character, Sonny and each portrayer have always worked and been one of my favorite all time GH couples. Sonny has never worked with anyone else because Carly is his soul mate. Although I loved Carly with Jax and Sonny with Olivia, Sonny and Carly complete each other and GH, please let us viewer’s enjoy them since we waited so long for them to find their way “home” to each other.
On another note, I hope Maurice isn’t getting tired of acting with Laura thus his reason for wanting to act alongside Jeannie. Sonny did used to be more passionate and romantic with all his women and I haven’t seen that lately. Hope there isnt trouble in acting paradise.