It’s hard to believe thatAnnette O’Toolehas been a regular on our screens for over five decades.
“Hope in the books is hardly there.
She’s a very peripheral character,” O’Toole tells The List.

It was all marked, and I was being true to what I thought was his vision.
She explains, “A TBI [traumatic brain injury]’s an interesting thing to play.
I don’t have very much personal experience with it, thank God.

“She’s still Hope,” O’Toole says.
“She’s still very impulsive and controlling, but now she’s dealing with all these issues.
Why can’t I … That’s incredibly difficult for her and more so for Doc to have to deal with it.
It’s very stressful for him.
[It] makes a lot of drama.”
“Virgin River” Season 4is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.