Actress Morgan Kohan worked with two small-screen legends on her new CW series “Sullivan’s Crossing” — but she said she was unfazed by co-stars Chad Michael Murray and Scott Patterson.
“I had seen a couple episodes [of ‘Gilmore Girls’] here and there, but I wasn’t a big TV person growing up,” Kohan told The Post from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she’s currently filming Season 2 of “Sullivan’s Crossing” ahead of its Season 1 premiere Oct. 4 (8 p.m.)
“So I’m kind of thankful for that,” she said. “I definitely knew about [Murray and Patterson’s] shows and who they were, but I didn’t have a deep knowledge of everything they had done.”
“And I wasn’t fan-girling over them,” she said. “It was less intimidating than it could have been.”
“Sullivan’s Crossing” is based on a series of books by Robyn Carr, who also authored the novels that form the basis for the Netflix hit “Virgin River.”
The story follows Maggie (Kohan), a hotshot neurosurgeon in Boston. After legal troubles turn her life upside down, she returns to her idyllic hometown in Nova Scotia — specifically to Sullivan’s Crossing, a campground run by her estranged father, Sully (Patterson).
As she re-connects with her father and with old friends, she reevaluates her life, and also connects with mysterious newcomer Cal (Michael Murray, “One Tree Hill”), with whom she initially gets off on the wrong foot (she think he’s flirting with her).
“The relationship with Cal is so much fun, because there’s so much tension built in there from the beginning,” Kohan said. “There’s clearly an attraction — they are magnetized to each other. Whether that’s [as a] friendship or romantic or enemies…that was fun to discover with Chad.”
“He is great, so sweet,” she said. “He’s such a grounded and kind person, and we get on really well. It’s working with a friend. We both put our all into it. It feels like a real collaboration.”
Sully and Maggie have a complicated relationship, since they haven’t seen each other for many years.
“I really loved getting to work on and discovering the scenes with Sully and Maggie,” she said. “There’s so much to mine out of that, so many years missed from each other, so much history that’s there. There’s so much left unsaid. Working on Scott on those scenes was such a pleasure. He’s so funny and such a jokester, so it’s a hoot. We were cackling between takes.”
Even though she didn’t watch much TV growing up, Kohan said she does have a favorite TV doctor.
“The two shows I did watch growing up were ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ So, Meredith Grey [Ellen Pompeo] is a staple,” she said. “I guess there are some similarities [between Meredith and Maggie], now that I think about it.”
“I think what’s exciting about this show is because Maggie is coming back to these people she hasn’t seen in so long, you’re seeing these relationships build from the ground up,” she said. “We see Cal and Maggie progress, and [we see] the baggage they both bring into their relationship.”
“We watch Sully and Maggie try and come to terms with their history, and who they want to be as a family. It’s exciting that everything is as new to her as it is to the audience.”
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