Stephen A. Smith Dishes Going Viral For General Hospital's Brick Shooting

Smith, who hosts a weekday sports debate show called First Take on ESPN, adds that he has always been comfortable in front of a camera, but he didn’t go into acting with the expectation of landing a recurring role when he first took on the gig in 2016.

“I'm always going to love sports and doing what I do,” he says. “I mean, it's made me who I am. Being synonymous with sports and giving sports commentary and being a sports journalist and broadcaster spanning the last three decades is obviously going to come first. I've never considered myself an actor or anything like that. But when the executive producer for General Hospital saw me and saw my talents on the set, he really, really believes that I have a set of natural skills that can really, really excel in this business. So it's something I've left the door open to because you never know what the future holds.”

“Doing General Hospital over the last several years has been incredible,” he later gushes. “I've got a lot of friends on that show, and they're very, very helpful to me and helped me get better at this particular craft.”