It's unclear whether Patrick Dempsey and Ellen Pompeo will return after season 10. Should they opt to leave, how much longer will Grey's run?
I'll figure it out when we get there, but I'm not even thinking about "should they opt to continue on." Sandra isn't even gone yet. We still have an entire season to do.
Do you already know how this season ends?
This year, we're doing a split season -- 10A and 10B with 12 and 12 [episodes each] -- and we're focused on the first half of the season this year. That was my solution to cope with not knowing who's coming back. I'm not going to worry about what's going to happen because I have no control over that.
Is there a character you wish you'd never killed off or written out?
I probably wouldn't have blown up Kyle Chandler [in season three]. We were filming the episode and he was pitching me ideas on how he could stay.
Is there one character death or departure that proved the hardest?
Cristina's departure is going to be really emotional. Denny [Jeffrey Dean Morgan] dying was really difficult for us. I didn't want to do it, and he didn't want to come out of his trailer. I cried and everyone at the table read cried. He was a character that we had all become really close to. Lexie's [Chyler Leigh] death was devastating. It was hard to write, hard to be at the table read and hard to see on film.
Over the course of the series, what has been your biggest challenge?
Keeping it fresh every season. The only way the show remains interesting to me creatively is if we're reinventing it at the beginning of every season. To find ways to do that as many times as we have has been a challenge.
Read full interview at THR
I'll figure it out when we get there, but I'm not even thinking about "should they opt to continue on." Sandra isn't even gone yet. We still have an entire season to do.
Do you already know how this season ends?
This year, we're doing a split season -- 10A and 10B with 12 and 12 [episodes each] -- and we're focused on the first half of the season this year. That was my solution to cope with not knowing who's coming back. I'm not going to worry about what's going to happen because I have no control over that.
Is there a character you wish you'd never killed off or written out?
I probably wouldn't have blown up Kyle Chandler [in season three]. We were filming the episode and he was pitching me ideas on how he could stay.
Is there one character death or departure that proved the hardest?
Cristina's departure is going to be really emotional. Denny [Jeffrey Dean Morgan] dying was really difficult for us. I didn't want to do it, and he didn't want to come out of his trailer. I cried and everyone at the table read cried. He was a character that we had all become really close to. Lexie's [Chyler Leigh] death was devastating. It was hard to write, hard to be at the table read and hard to see on film.
Over the course of the series, what has been your biggest challenge?
Keeping it fresh every season. The only way the show remains interesting to me creatively is if we're reinventing it at the beginning of every season. To find ways to do that as many times as we have has been a challenge.
Read full interview at THR
This interview makes my blood boil and I can't believe no one else has pointed out that the reporter has basic facts wrong and it's pretty embarrassing. Shonda Rhimes has two children, not three. Kyle Chandler's character was blown up in season two, not three (which is when he reappeared as a "ghost"). And when they ask the cast about their favorite episodes, the actress who plays Stephanie says the episode when Cristina is bedridden and can't stop crying and says "Why am I still crying?" and says that it's the one when Burke leaves her but those are two different episodes. Cristina is bedridden and can't stop crying after her miscarriage in season two - which is clearly the episode the actress meant given the line she quoted. And let's not even get into the sketchy quote rewriting concerning the initial Katherine Heigl reference that was edited and re-contextualized to reflect the Isaiah Washington debacle a couple house later. They literally rewrote what Shonda Rhimes said - changed the words entirely - and took Heigl out of the article completely. Journalism at its worst.
ReplyDeleteActually Shonda has adopted a new baby girl quite recently... She tweeted about it not too long ago
ReplyDeleteI knew that...I definitely knew that...it just slipped my mind...Dear lord, can this woman literally do EVERYTHING? BUT STILL! My point still stands about it being embarrassing that there was no research done in regards to "Grey's" and that they rewrote quotes and changed the context of them after the article was published. Sketchy beyond belief and totally still blood boil-y.
ReplyDeleteshe didn't adopt her 3rd child she had a segregate
ReplyDeleteI love how Shonda says that "This show does not seem to end"... and constantly states how creatively exhausting it is to reinvent the show each season. To me, this sounds like a good reason to stop creating it. Don't showrunners have a say in when they would like the series to end? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE Grey's (and probably as obsessed as @Ryan) and been with the show since season 3, but it seems to be dragging the stories on and on and once someone has a revelation or about to have some revelation a patient codes or a natural disaster occurs so we're always back at square one. (And how many PSTD inducing natural disasters can one hospital have? #seattlegracemercydeath)
ReplyDeleteEnd the show man! Seriously. I hope PD and EP leaves and asks Shonda to end the show. I love the show but I wouldn't watch it without PD and/or EP. I'm already devastated that Oh is leaving and have two minds about watching next season. So yeah, it should end before it's too late.
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