{"id":211518,"date":"2026-04-27T18:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:37:31","slug":"giovanni-mazza-and-braedyn-bruner-dish-filming-gio-and-emmas-nyc-trip-on-general-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211518\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni Mazza and Braedyn Bruner Dish Filming Gio and Emma’s NYC Trip on General Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Hospital<\/a>‘s Emma (Braedyn Bruner<\/a>) has every bit of her mother Robin’s (Kimberly McCullough) stubbornness and compassion, as well as her dad Patrick (Jason Thompson)’s drive. Meanwhile, violin virtuoso Gio (Giovanni Mazza<\/a>) has the level-headedness of his bio dad Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) and the inner warmth of his birth mom Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton).<\/p>\n

Together, these two characters are forming a modern-day legacy on GH, and Swooon<\/a>\u00a0got in the game with their new series Rising Supercouples, and they chatted with Bruner and Mazza about playing a young love story on the soap. That includes\u00a0Gio and Emma’s recent jaunt to New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bruner recalled:<\/p>\n

When we were in New York, actually, we got stopped seven times within an hour in Bryant Park alone.<\/p>\n

At first, when the two were told they’d be doing an\u00a0“Aladdin\u00a0crossover,”\u00a0they weren’t sure what that entailed. Bruner said:<\/p>\n

I don’t think we knew what that meant initially. I didn’t understand that it was actually going to be a part of the show itself; I thought we would just be going to New York and doing… I don’t even know, promo of some sort? But then I found out that Emma and Gio are going to New York as part of the storyline. That was really, really exciting, ’cause we just don’t go on location a lot at all. I know GH used to go a lot, but it’s just a rare, rare thing, so that felt really special.<\/p>\n

What did the two get up to in the Big Apple? They were filming and staying in Times Square; on their first day, which they had off, the two went to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and then saw the show Aladdin\u00a0in person. Plus, they saw childhood pals.<\/p>\n

Then Mazza revealed a rather controversial NYC bagel order. The first time they went to NYC, Mazza said:<\/p>\n

I got Nutella cream cheese with regular cream cheese, and they said they wouldn’t do it, and then I got lettuce, onion, egg, bacon, turkey, ham, pickles, with the Nutella cream cheese.<\/p>\n

Now, he goes a bit more classic with his order: bacon, egg, and turkey.<\/p>\n

How was working with Michael James Scott, star of Aladdin on Broadway? Bruner said:<\/p>\n

Michael James Scott is such a lovely person but has so much energy, which is so, so great. and obviously, he played the Genie for twelve-plus years on Broadway; he’s amazing, just so, so, so great. And I feel like he fit in so perfectly<\/a>, like it didn’t feel like he didn’t work at General Hospital.<\/p>\n

How did it feel to be selected to be in crossover episodes featuring a Broadway star? Mazza said:<\/p>\n

It was an honor. I don’t take it lightly.\u00a0 I appreciate the offer to have gone and do this awesome opportunity and be a part of this memorable moment in the show.<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Daytime Confidential<\/a> on Apr 27, 2026, where it first appeared in the General Hospital<\/a> section. Add Daytime Confidential as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"General Hospital‘s Emma (Braedyn Bruner) has every bit of her mother Robin’s (Kimberly McCullough) stubbornness and compassion, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83615,83613,83621,83617,83618,83616,83612,83620,83619,83614,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-211518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-amanda-setton","tag-braedyn-bruner","tag-bruner","tag-dad-patrick","tag-general-hospital","tag-gio","tag-giovanni-mazza","tag-jason-thompson","tag-kimberly-mccullough","tag-michael-james-scott","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}