Why Ellen Pompeo has not been in the movies for 20 years

After 20 seasons to play the surgeon, the 55 -year -old actress finally changes register in Good American Family, on Disney Plus. For her, it is “a new career that begins”. Encounter.

Yes, it still appears from time to time in Grey’s Anatomy. For strictly financial reasons. But at 55, Ellen pompeo Clearly wants to turn the hospital page of his career. We find her today on Disney Plus in Good American Familya sordid family drama, in which she embodies an adoptive mother at the antipodes of Meredith Gray. A real kiff for the star, who has never had the opportunity to diversify his horizons after two decades in the operating blocks of Seattle.

The proof: Ellen pompeo has not appeared in a film in the cinema for over 20 years! She who had seduced Leonardo DiCAPRI In Stop me if you can (2002) or Ben Affleck In Daredevil (2003), has not turned for the big screen since Secrets with friends (2005), a dramatic comedy completely unnoticed. 20 years without a single film for a star like Ellen pompeo ? It is totally assumed!

“Yes, it’s true”answers the actress that First was able to meet. She explains the reasons for this Hollywood anomaly:

“You should know that the planning of Grey’s Anatomy does not really leave room to make cinema or other things next to it. We were filming for 10 consecutive months in the great time. It barely leaves time to make a small film between May and June. Like a little romantic comedy before taking over the shooting of Grey’s Anatomy … so I never really had time to do cinema. And then, that is to say, Always had more importance for me.

From now on, Ellen pompeo only films only a few days a year in the white corridors of Grey’s Anatomy. Her children grew up. And she feels that Hollywood is interested in her in a different way: “I believe that when I have now, I am going to offer me more interesting things”assures the 55 -year -old actress. “When you are a young actress, we are cast because we know how to play well, but also because we are pretty and sexy! Now that I am an older woman, I have the feeling that I am offered deeper and more complex roles to play. It’s like a new career that starts!”

And she therefore begins with this role of bad mother against employment, in Good American Familyon Disney Plus. A mini-series adapted from a true chilling story: that of Natalia Gracea Ukrainian child with nanism, adopted by an American couple, the Barnett, who later accused him of being an adult posing as a child …

“The story of Natalia was very popular in the United States, because there was this documentary, The Natalia Grace enigma (To see on Max in France, editor’s note), that everyone was watching two years ago. I haven’t seen it, but many of my friends told me about it “resumes Ellen pompeo. “They said it was a crazy story and above all, everyone had a different opinion on what had really happened. All had seen the same documentary, but had retained different things. They did not agree who was responsible in this story. I remember that it marked me a lot.”

And the actress tells us that when the designer, Katie Robbinspresented the script to her, she rightly insisted on the notion of perspective: “Following the prism by which we look at this story, we believe different versions. And the documentary is thus divided into two parts: the point of view of Michael Barnett first, then that of Natalia, and this is where we see things completely differently. It completely puts the first part into perspective. And that is what we wanted to recreate in the series.”

In any case, for Ellen pompeothere is no doubt: Kristine Barnett is a real bad guy … and that is what motivated him to relaunch his career by accepting the role: