Soaptown U.S.A. Asks Five Questions Of Your GH Favorites Past and Present

 JONATHAN JACKSON

By: Tom Stacy

Soaptown: Tell us about your new nighttime sudser, NASHVILLE.
Jonathan Jackson: I play a young singer/songwriter named Avery Barkley who's trying to make it in the music business. He’s been going at it for a few years. He moved to Nashville from Mississippi. He’s a very passionate young musician who’s trying to find his way in the world.

Soaptown: So you get to perform!
Jackson: Oh, yeah, which is exciting, I’ve already gotten to record a few songs with T-Bone Burnett, which is amazing, a couple songs that Elvis Costello wrote, which is pretty phenomenal for me. So, I will be singing and performing on the show…. that’s basically the core of my character — his relationship to music and how it affects his life.

Soaptown: Any chance your real-life band, Enation, might pop up on show?
Jackson: Yeah, that would be cool. I think that would be great.

Soaptown: Obviously you’re occupied with this series now, but any chance you might come back to GH while on a hiatus?
Jackson: Actually, I was talking to [GH] after I shot the pilot and before we started up again to see if I could do a few weeks, so it is possible. It’s tough schedule-wise, and then when you do have a hiatus, you want to think about taking a break [laughs]. We’ll see.

Soaptown: You must be enjoying the difference in pace between working in prime-time and working in daytime.
Jackson: I am [laughs]. It is nice, and it’s great that this is an ensemble cast so with eight of us, the work is dispersed. Coming off the last two years of GH, it’s a really nice change of pace, for sure.

Soaptown: Now, Lucky sang but he wasn’t driven to perform the way you have been with your band. Would you say Avery is the character most like you?
Jackson: That’s an interesting question, Tom…. maybe musically, but I don’t know about other than that. We’ll have to let the audience weigh in!

NASHVILLE premieres Wednesday,
October 10, at 10:00 p.m. E.T./P.T. on ABC