Stephen A. Smith is just not a brand new face in Port Charles, however each time the sports activities broadcaster seems on Basic Hospital, it leaves a brand new group of followers reeling.
The 57-year-old ESPN speaking head appeared on the April 28 episode of the ABC cleaning soap opera as Brick, the discreet everything-man who is usually employed by Sonny (Maurice Benard).
Brick arrived on the hospital the place Sonny was being handled simply in time to save lots of the mob boss’ life, as an murderer posing as a nurse was scheming to take him out.
“Sorry to interrupt, however I am gonna must see some ID,” Brick stated as he walked into the hospital room.
The nurse was about to inject one thing presumably deadly into Sonny’s bloodstream, however Brick once more demanded to see her ID “now.”
“After all,” the nurse stated, however as she turned, she pulled a gun out of her scrubs as a substitute of an ID — however Brick was quicker than she was, and he shot her first.
Because the nurse-slash-assassin lay lifeless on Sonny’s hospital mattress, Brick made a name. “Yeah, I obtained a physique right here you guys may be enthusiastic about,” he stated.
Smith made his first look as Brick on the cleaning soap opera in 2016 and has been the Corinthos household’s surveillance and tech skilled ever since.
Although he not often speaks out in regards to the function, he did defend it — and the cleaning soap itself — when Chris “Mad Canine” Russo appeared on First Take in 2023.
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“No one cares about Basic Hospital, Steve. And no person watches it,” Russo instructed him within the phase, prompting Smith to hit again.
“To start with, Basic Hospital [is a] multiple-time Emmy Award winners, big-time cleaning soap opera. That and Younger and the Stressed are the highest two cleaning soap operas, been that method for many years,” Smith stated.
He additionally revealed that he will get “Stopped in every single place within the nation due to Brick — surveillance skilled for the mob.”
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Basic Hospital airs weekdays on ABC (examine native listings).
