General Hospital’s Spencer Recast? Nicholas Alexander Chavez Says, ‘Of Course I Understand’

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It’s been almost a year since General Hospital bid farewell to Spencer in January of 2024. The villainous Esme dragged him into the Seine River with her as she plummeted to her apparent death. The reason, at the time, was to give Nicholas Alexander Chavez a break from the show to film the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix crime anthology series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Chavez had landed one of the show’s lead roles as elder brother Lyle Menendez in the crime drama. We all expected him to return after Monsters was done. But then, before they even finished filming the season, Murphy offered Chavez another role, this time in the FX horror drama that debuted this past Wednesday, September 25th, Grotesquerie. Clearly, it didn’t take him long to spot what General Hospital viewers knew from the start: Chavez was a star!

But just like that we went from assuming he’d be back to realizing it probably wouldn’t happen — especially if Grotesquerie and Monsters lead to even more roles for the rising star. Word leaked that he wouldn’t be returning to General Hospital anymore, but Chavez himself made it clear that he was still open to the possibility. That, though, was before word got out about his starring role in Grotesquerie.

Now?

Well, General Hospital fans know that it’s still less likely a matter of if Spencer will return, but when. It’s just a matter of who would play him. In an interview with our sister site TVLine, Chavez insists that he has still not ruled out the possibility of returning. “Port Charles is a crazy place,” he notes. (Don’t we know it?) “We’ll have to see what happens.”

But if General Hospital did decide to bring Spencer back and Chavez wasn’t free to make the return, he wouldn’t have any hard feelings. “Of course,” he tells TVLine. “I understand that the show has needs, and I would be fully supportive of that.”

Like a lot of things in life, it probably all comes down to a matter of timing. No matter what happens one thing we are pretty darn sure of is Spencer will ride again.