Normal Hospital Reveals Stunning Reality About Drew Cain’s Shooter

Normal Hospital has revealed who shot Drew Cain, and the actor behind the incident is now talking out. Cameron Mathison has been taking part in Drew on the long-running cleaning soap opera Normal Hospital since 2021 and starred on All My Kids earlier than that, so he has loads of expertise with surprising and death-defying storylines, together with Drew being shot twice within the again.

The shooter’s identification has been a thriller for a number of months, however Normal Hospital simply revealed through the episode that aired on January 8 that the one who pulled the set off was none apart from Drew’s spouse, Willow Cain. Throughout an interview with TV Insider, actor Katelyn MacMullen, who performs Willow, opened up concerning the jaw-dropping revelation.

It wasn’t simply the viewers who had been left in the dead of night; the solid was as effectively. In actual fact, MacMullen solely discovered that Willow was the shooter every week and a half earlier than filming the flashback scenes that had been woven into the trial.

The actor admitted she was “shocked” but additionally discovered the expertise “thrilling,” particularly because the episode pulled again the curtain on what led to Willow capturing Drew. The solid had their very own theories in current months and had been speculating nonstop.

“I discovered a few week and a half earlier than we shot the flashback scenes. On one hand, I used to be somewhat shocked. On the opposite, we had been all so curious, as a solid, as to who did it, so it was form of thrilling to know that it was Willow and to then have the ability to determine why she did it.”

Throughout that time period when MacMullen and her co-stars did not know the reality, the actor had her suspicions about Willow, so she was capable of “mess around in that grey space” and ship a efficiency wherein viewers had been left questioning what secrets and techniques she wasn’t sharing with everybody.

“Up till that time, I suspected that it might have been Willow, however I didn’t know for certain. So, it was form of enjoyable to mess around in that grey space of, ‘Did she do it? Did she not do it?’ and to work in a method the place it might be her, nevertheless it additionally couldn’t be her. After which as soon as I knew that she was the shooter, it was extra like, ‘OK, now she’s form of preventing for her life right here.’”

Talking of that grey space, Willow capturing Drew has been a fantastic alternative for MacMullen to indicate totally different sides of her character and her personal performing talents, particularly since she actually hasn’t gotten the possibility to do one thing this surprising on Normal Hospital earlier than.

What makes numerous characters on cleaning soap operas so compelling is the ethical ambiguity, which Willow has now displayed. “I’ve gotten to see that ebb and circulate along with her of experiencing the highs and now absolutely the lows of her life,” MacMullen stated.

“I really feel like in life, individuals undergo these ebbs and flows of being the hero of their very own story or possibly the villain. And I feel the attractive a part of taking part in a job for, now occurring eight years, is that I’ve gotten to see that ebb and circulate along with her of experiencing the highs and now absolutely the lows of her life. Residing by way of all these items which have introduced out the worst or the perfect in her has been, on one hand, difficult, but additionally a cool present of working on this explicit style the place you’re taking part in the character for thus lengthy.”

In a method, it was virtually too apparent that the shooter would turn into Willow, which is what makes this revelation fascinating because the present might simply have gone in a totally totally different course to maintain everybody on edge and uncertain of what is coming subsequent. As MacMullen defined, “Normally, there is likely to be somebody who comes out of left subject…however for them to verify that it was, in reality, certainly one of their prime suspects…it was actually attention-grabbing.“

“Normally, there is likely to be somebody who comes out of left subject, and everybody’s like, ‘Oh, I by no means considered that.’ However for them to verify that it was, in reality, certainly one of their prime suspects, and the way in which they did it, was actually attention-grabbing.”

So far as the crime itself, MacMullen appears like Willow “had no alternative” however to shoot Drew, since she had been in a “place of psychological misery” after dropping her children within the custody battle.

Drew’s actions weren’t serving to the scenario in any respect. Willow realized that he was “isolating her and maintaining her ready of powerlessness” as a technique to management her. Making an attempt to eliminate Drew was Willow’s method of taking again management of her life and reuniting along with her children.

“From my perspective, she felt like she had no alternative. I feel she’s been in a spot of psychological misery, and he or she doesn’t fairly know who to belief. She’s been backed right into a nook of, ‘You will need to do that to get your children again,’ however then that didn’t work, after which it was, ‘You must do that to get your children again,’ however that didn’t work both.”

Regardless of the storyline being surprising and crammed with loads of drama, varied solid members on Normal Hospital have taken it upon themselves to seek out humor within the scenario. As MacMullen defined, “There’s positively some new, I do not wish to say nicknames, however individuals are like, ‘What’s up, Killer?’“

“There’s positively some new, I don’t wish to say nicknames, however individuals are like, ‘What’s up, Killer?’ Nevertheless it’s all in good enjoyable, to maintain issues mild. I really like that there are such a lot of tentacles to this story. I feel we’re all fairly intrigued by it. It’s been fairly enjoyable to simply chat about and joke about after which expertise as a result of we’re all in it collectively and we’re like, ‘Dang, it is a loopy enjoyable time.’”

“She’s shocked and decided. There was a lot pent-up anger, and it’s lastly come out. The cool factor about this story is that it’s gone in so many various instructions, and the chances are countless, and I’m excited to see the place it goes.”

As for what the longer term holds for the characters on Normal Hospital, particularly Willow after everybody found her secret, MacMullen added that the “potentialities are countless.” She’s a fan simply as a lot because the viewers are, and she will’t wait to see what occurs subsequent.

Normal Hospital airs weekdays on ABC.