Medical dramas likeGrey’s Anatomyhave long been a TV staple.
“If you’ve seen it before, why would you do it again?”
She continued, saying, “Your goal isn’t to copy somebody that you admire.
Your goal is to be the thing that other people would admire themselves.”
“I was obsessed with the surgery channels,” Rhimes recalled.
Watching all those operations led Rhimes to have an epiphany about the doctors she’d been watching.
One cast member used an ugly, homophobic slur to describe a co-star.
Knight (Dr. George O’Malley)using a homophobic slur.
Washington only made things worse when he later gave an on-camera interview denying he used the word whileusingthe word.
“No, I did not call T.R.
a f*****.
Never happened,” he said.
She continued, tellingAccess Hollywood, “That did just not need to be said.
I’m not OK with it.”
“Everyone heard it,” he said.
He denied that he said it.
I don’t know, really, what to say about that," he continued.
Meredith Greysince the debut ofGrey’s Anatomyin 2005, starring in more than 300 episodes of television.
Appearing on a 2019 episode ofJimmy Kimmel Live!, Pompeo explained the simple and surprising reason why.
“Medical shows make me too anxious,” she admitted.
“It’s too much of me,” she explained.
“Same reason my husband says, ‘I can’t watch, it’s too much.
I get you all day.'”
“Enough with the celebrations now,” she jokingly complained to Kimmel.
“At this point,everyepisode is a milestone and a celebration …
I am the party pooper!”
As he joked, “I wouldn’t trust my medical opinion on anything.
If you have anything that’s going on, I wouldn’t trust me.”
“A little bit.
She’s very no-nonsense,” revealed Rhimes.
My mother is definitely that kind of realist."
Rhimes shared another big revelation about the character.
When Wilson auditioned for the role, however, Rhimes tossed that idea out the window.
Prior to landing the role, Williams’ acting career hadn’t exactly been flourishing.
Revealing that he taught mainly high school, he admitted “it was fun.”
He told host Ellen DeGeneres that he also taught middle school and spent six months teaching kindergarten students.
That experience, however, is not one he’d wish to repeat.
“It’s insane,” Williams said of teaching kindergarteners.
“I’m not going back there.
Williams described teaching kindergarten as being akin to putting out constant fires only to have more pop up.
“As soon as you’d calm something else down, there’s something else ablaze.”
That, however, wasn’t the worst thing about kids that age.
“They’re liars,” he said jokingly.
“They just lie all the time for fun for no reason.”
“…Shonda Rhimes looks at me,” he detailed.
Just looks at me.
The entire meeting, just looking at me.
No expression, no warmth, nothing.”
I was completely terrified of her.
I was like, ‘Oh my god, she’s scary.'"
What Dempsey was assuming, however, wasn’t close to the truth.
HerGrey’sfame leading to big-screen roles in 2007’sKnocked Upand the 2008 rom-com27 Dresses.
It was her explanationwhy, however, that created controversy.
Her words blew up and the show’s writers and were producers reportedlyless than thrilledabout her apparent diss.
Unsurprisingly,Katherine Heigl left Grey’s Anatomy after Season 6.
“I shouldn’t have said anything publicly,” she explained.
“But at the time, I didn’t think anyone would notice… “And thankGodI did not get that part.”
However, after reading the script she found herself connecting more with the Cristina.
The show was a hit and enjoyed a six-season run, ending in 2013.
That’s whatGood Morning Americatried to determine by asking the show’s cast to pick a favorite episode.
The stunt didn’t go as planned, however.
The stuntwoman hit her head on the floor and was taken away in an ambulance after suffering a concussion.
But, where did those now-iconic nicknames originate?
While watching Dempsey on the monitor, she would think, “Look at his dreamy eyes.”
She and her fellow producers started referring to Dempsey as McDreamy and it stuck.
The nickname made its way into the scripts and, eventually, television history.
During the interview, Rhimes also explained the true meaning of McDreamy.
“Isn’t that the way if often happens in life?
You get hooked before you discover the truth?”
However, Pompeo broke from that tradition and shared how much money she wasreally worth.
The reason she got candid about her salary was both surprising and inspiring.
“We have to own part of it.
