Despite previously published reports, Jonathan Jackson will exit his role as General Hospitals's Lucky.
Although Jakson's manager, Tony Monziotti, will onlu confirm that the 16 year old actor will be leaving GH "later on this year," setaside sources place the departure in the spring.
"Jonathan has plans to pursue a film career," explains Monziotti of his clients's decision to exit GH after nearly six years. "The fans know that he's leaving. Nobody has said he's staying permanently. Now, most of his fans want to see him in movies anyway."
Judging from Jackson's upcoming schedule, that won't be too difficult. In addition to a supporting role in the newly released Michelle Pfeifer film The Deep End of The Ocean, Jackson had recently completed work on another feature, True Rights, as well. "We're hoping that will be out in the fall," states Monziotti. "But what we want for Jonathan right now is a picture called Patriots, starring Mel Gibson. We're still working on it though."
What Jackson i s also working on is a way to return to GH peroodically should future storyline permit. "He has told GH and made it ver clear to me that he wants to periodically go back to GH," allows Monziotti "It's a quetion of if the storyline warrants it and they want him to come back; Jonathan would be more than happy to."
JACKSON SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Jonathan Jackson wants to set the record straight about his decision to put off college. After passing his high scholl prodiciency test last year, Jackson gave GH six months notice that he was entertaining the prospect of attending college.
"Once I did that,it got out that I was possibly leaving, and then a lot of articles got written," says Jackson. "Back then, college was something I was definitly considering. But I still have high school classes I could (attend) before I go to college, even though I technically graduated."
As previosuly reposted Jackson decided to postpone college in order to extend his stay with GH. While not alloud to discuss how long the extension is, Jackson says that he wanted to stay a little longer because of the success of the Liz/Lucky storyline. "Seeing how much the fans are enjoying it, I wanted to do it a little more with it beofre I left," he explains.
The actor also wants the make clear that he's grateful for the soap's flexiablilty. "It was nice of GH to come to the negotiating table and accommodate us," he says.
