Upon first finding out that she’d be donning a black wig and accent to play Denise, GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Maura West (Ava) wasn’t convinced she could pull it off. “She called me when she got the script,” says headwriter Ron Carlivati, “and she said, ‘Woah, woah, woah… what is up with this Denise? I can’t do that accent!’” The scribe, however, knew otherwise. “I told her, ‘You’re Maura West! You can do anything!’ She insisted she couldn’t do a Brooklyn accent, and I said, ‘That’s okay, Denise isn’t from Brooklyn, she’s from Queens!’” After practicing at home for a while, West showed up on set and nailed the outrageous character. “I knew she could,” says Carlivati. “I saw her performance, and it was exactly what I’d imagined. I never doubted for…
