General Hospital star Chris McKenna's long-ago encounter with a vampire slayer

Vampires once plagued the city’s denizens on the aptly titled General Hospital spinoff, Port Charles. Among those who faced off against the forces of darkness were an angel named Rafe (Brian Gaskill) and, surprisingly, Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring), who turned out to be a vampire slayer. If the vampires came back today, they’d have to face off against WSB station chief Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna), who’s now located in the fair city. While that’s probably not going to happen, McKenna recently shared a photo from the past where he posed with a different kind of vampire slayer.

It’s Buffy!

McKenna posted a picture of him on Instagram at an extremely young age, posing with Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Sarah Michelle Gellar. He wrote, “#wbw with Sarah Michelle Gellar at the Daytime Emmy’s 1992. Fun fact - I was coming down with chicken pox in this photo. By 9pm I was full-blown. Lindsay Price was the first to notice. 📷@stevenbergman29.”

McKenna had previously played Joey Buchanan on the defunct soap, One Life to Live, while Gellar played Kendall Hart on All My Children, and the two must have been at a soap awards ceremony. A surprised Lindsay Price, who played An Li Chen Bodine on AMC, responded, “Was I?! Omg hahahaa…That tracks, though. ❤️.”

McKenna responded to Price’s remark, writing, “@lindsayjprice precocious one, you were lol.” Celebrity photographer Steven Bergman also chimed in on Price’s response with, “@lindsayjprice Le Bar Bat was this great 4 story club on West 57th street that closed up years back. Lots of great events were had there. I have tons of photos of you from back then if you’d like me to scan & send you a few?”

Fans of both shows loved him

@lab25ckd commented, “Omg loving you on GH! Watched you on OLTL as well!😎,” while @metta11 enthusiastically remarked, “Buffy and Joey!!❤️” @organiconlyone had two responses, the first being, “On another note, Sarah looked like a young Susan Lucci in that pic.” Lucci, of course, famously played Erika Kane on AMC.

Their second post was to ask what was probably on everyone’s mind who saw it: “Did Sarah catch it from you? If she did, this pic's probably not such a fond memory for her, lol. 😂.” McKenna responded, “@organiconlyone I was younger and was one of the few not to have it yet. Everyone else had it years earlier.”

Many of the fans agreed that they loved him on OLTL and are currently enjoying his performance on GH. His followers thought the couple looked cute with others, also thinking that Gellar resembled Lucci. And another fan, @dani_jerve, wrote, “Oh look at these babies ❤️ bummer about the chicken pox ugh.” (Check out Gellar’s update on the Buffy reboot.)

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