Why Ellen Pompeo farted a cable on Grey’s Anatomy this year

“I want Shonda’s inheritance to remain solid. And the day you don’t care, when you do things halfway, you don’t do your job anymore.”

She may have hung up the blouse full time, but when we touch Meredith Gray, Ellen pompeo Take the fangs out.

At the start of the year, during season 21 of Grey’s Anatomyan intrigue – in episodes 10 and 11 – to twist the cult actress.

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In a surprising turnaround, Merediththe icon of “I do what is right, not what is legal”, decides to follow the protocol to the letter. She balances that Evynn, the protégé of Catherine, lied to obtain a liver transplant for his wife with Alzheimer’s. Until the end, Meredith denounces Evynn to UNOS (the organization that manages organ donations) and to the hospital council. A choice that made jump Ellen pompeo.

In an interview with Varietyshe balances cash:

“I don’t always have my say on Meredith’s choices. And sometimes the writers write an intrigue before wondering: ‘Is it The Meredith Gray that (Ellen) built for 20 years would really do something like that? ‘”

So much so that she literally has exploded By discovering the scenario.

“Meredith, for an obscure reason, decides to be angry, swing everyone and say that Tasha does not deserve the liver … While for 20 years, she blew up all the rules to help people. She operated Gratos, bypassed the system again and again to save lives …” Ellen pompeo hate this intrigue because it goes against the character she made over hundreds of episodes. She believes that “The concern with this story is that the real Meredith Gray, the one I shaped, she would have said: ‘OK, you lied, I am furious. But come, we hack a plan together to have this fucking liver. The system is rotten, we have always bypassed it. “”

After Varietythe actress was so furax that she literally melted into tears on the set, overwhelmed by emotion.

It is Lena WaitheGuest Star on the double episode in question, which calmed it by showing him that this intrigue was used above all to develop the Relationship between Meredith and Nick.

But Pompeo repeats it: if she gets so much, it’s because she likes the series.

“Meg Marinis (the showrunner), Debbie Allen (producer and interpreter of Catherine), and Shonda Rhimes (the creator) all know that if I express myself on the creative, it is out of love. I want Shonda’s inheritance to remain solid. And the day you don’t care, when you do things halfway, you don’t do your job anymore.

Let it be said, even if it is no longer there with each episode, the boss of Grey’s Anatomyit’s always Meredith.