Demi Moore and John Stamos have a ‘General Hospital’ reunion: ‘Together again!’

Demi Moore and John Stamos are bringing the ’80s back.

The superstar actors first appeared together early in both of their respective careers on General Hospital. 40 years after they both bid adieu to Port Charles, the pair reunited at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, where Stamos presented Moore with the Best Actress prize for her performance in The Substance.

General Hospital‘s official Instagram account celebrated the reunion in a Feb. 10 post, sharing a red carpet photo of the pair with the caption, “Jackie Templeton and Blackie Parrish – together again!”

Investigative reporter Jackie Templeton, portrayed by Moore, was the actress’s first major screen role – but not her very first. She landed her first lead part in the small coming-of-age sports drama Choices, in which she played the girlfriend of a high school football player whose promising career is cut short by a diagnosis of partial deafness.

Stamos’s street scamp Albert “Blackie” Parris, however, was the actor’s first screen role. Both Moore and Stamos began their stints on General Hospital in January 1982, and both left the series in April 1984. Despite the precise mirroring in their tenures, the actors never shared any major plot arcs, though they did at least share the screen several times.

Stamos’s character was never recast after he left the show, his character being sent to prison for the murder of Lou Swenson (Danielle von Zerneck). But following Jackie’s departure from Port Charles in a huff after beau Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) married another woman, the CBS soap did eventually end up recasting Moore.

The Emmy-winning NYPD Blue actress Kim Delaney took over the role in October 2020. But Delaney remained on for less than a year, her character being suddenly called out of town in a June 2021 episode and never returning.

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Stamos would receive his big break only three years after leaving General Hospital by being cast as the suave Jesse Katsopolis in Full House. Moore, meanwhile, would launch to a very different kind of stardom only the year after when she landed a prominent role in St. Elmo’s Fire.

Her membership in the Brat Pack, the loose association of young Hollywood hotshots of the mid ’80s including Emilio Estevez and Rob Lowe, led to her ruling the box office throughout the early to mid-1990s in films like Ghost, Indecent Proposal, and Striptease.

During the recent press tour for her tour de force performance in the out-of-this-world shocker The Substance, Moore has recounted how she never seemed to be able to evade the “popcorn actress” label stuck to her during these years. But with her Golden Globes win for the film, she says the label is finally “irrelevant.”