Gray’s Anatomy has survived some turbulent occasions, however might it survive the lack of its main girl?
It might occur!
Ellen Pompeo, who has performed Meredith Gray since Gray’s Anatomy Season 1 Episode 1, has opened up about the potential for her departing the medical drama.
“Shonda and I, I feel — we’ll see, we’ll see,” Pompeo advised Leisure Tonight about whether or not the present will go on with out her.
“Frequently making an attempt to reinvent the present is the problem at this level.”
Pompeo has appeared in 400 episodes of the sequence, and the star believes the viewers has stored it going robust for all these years.
“The present speaks to lots of people, and the younger individuals love the present,” Pompeo dished.
“It’s impressed so many generations of healthcare staff, so, I feel for the younger individuals, it’s a extremely good piece of content material.”
“We’re going to attempt to preserve it going for the younger individuals, not essentially with me, however preserve it going past me.”
When requested about whose “anatomy” wouldn’t it be with out Meredith Gray, the star stated the next:
“We’ll discover somebody, or possibly, we gained’t.”
Pompeo has been open about both bringing the present to an in depth or departing.
“I really feel like I’m the tremendous naive one who retains saying, ‘However what’s the story going to be, what story are we going to inform?’” Pompeo stated to Insider in December 2021.
“Everybody’s like, ‘Who cares, Ellen? It makes a gazillion {dollars}.’”
The sequence stays a heavy hitter within the rankings, and makes some huge cash, so certainly there’s an incentive to maintain it going.
ABC renewed the sequence for Season 19 earlier this 12 months.
“I couldn’t be extra excited that we get to maintain telling the tales of Meredith, Bailey, Richard, and the entire different docs at Gray Sloan Memorial for an additional season,” Rhimes stated in a press release on the time.
“This can be a true testomony to [showrunner] Krista Vernoff, the forged, the crew and all of the writers who preserve the viewers on the sting of their seat week after week.”
If you happen to watch Gray’s Anatomy on-line, you already know the newest episodes have strongly steered Meredith will probably be leaving Seattle, presumably making ready followers for the massive goodbye.
The season finale additionally doubles because the four-hundredth episode, so would possibly we be saying goodbye to Meredith as quickly as this week?
Presumably.
All we are able to do is watch the season finale Thursday at 8/7c.
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