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Scott Clifton guested on Digest’s podcast, Dishing With Digest, and traced his soap roots from GH’s Dillon to ONE LIFE TO LIVE’s Schuyler to B&B’s Liam.

Soap Opera Digest: You joined GENERAL HOSPITAL as Dillon in 2003. Was that the first time soaps had been on your audition schedule or on your radar?

Scott Clifton: No, I had auditioned for GENERAL HOSPITAL three times before that. And before that I had auditioned for AS THE WORLD TURNS once. So, soaps were on my radar. I knew that they were a kind of respectable line of work for an actor to have.... I had auditioned for the [GH] character of Lucas, I auditioned for Lucky at one point. I was way too young for that. I think it was the third time I had auditioned [Casting Director Mark Teschner] gave me a hug at the end and it was a very kind of like consoling hug, so I knew I wasn’t getting the part. But he whispered in my ear, “I’m gonna get you on this damn show if it kills me.” And then the next time I auditioned I almost didn’t want to go to the audition because I was so bummed because I got so far — each of these auditions for Lucas and Lucky I went really far. I had like two or three callbacks and then eventually Dillon Quartermaine came up and that was it. I got that job and was on the show.

Digest: Tell us about your early days as Dillon and working with Jane [Elliot, Tracy, Dillon’s mother].