The decision is in: the Ghost Denny period of Gray’s Anatomy was awkward and “complicated for everybody.” Simply ask Katherine Heigl and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
“It’s humorous as a result of I don’t keep in mind a lot of that season as a result of it simply… I don’t know that anyone thought that was working once we had been doing it,” Morgan, 58, instructed Leisure Weekly in a joint interview together with his former co-star revealed on Friday, March 28.
Heigl added that she was positive loads of followers bought “want achievement” out of the plot, however conceded that it was “awkward.”
“I think about that it was to present the followers a little bit of this want achievement, however yeah, it was awkward — not the scenes, however the idea,” she stated.
“She may by no means acknowledge me,” Morgan defined of how Heigl’s character, Izzie Stephens, interacted with Denny after he died on the present. “And I keep in mind I used to be yelling at her whereas all people else was giving her physician info. And it was throwing all people off.”
Heigl additionally admitted that there’s one scene particularly between the 2 actors that she by no means needs to see once more.
“There’s one specific scene that I can’t watch with my kids ever. I don’t care how outdated they’re. I don’t care in the event that they’re 60, I’m not watching this with them,” she defined. “And it was a scene the place you’re within the room, however I’m attempting to be like, ‘You aren’t right here, you’re not right here.’ And Alex [Justin Chambers] and Izzie begin messing round and he goes down on her. And also you’re simply standing there. And I used to be simply form of on the time like, ‘That is what the cash’s for, proper?’”
The “Ghost Denny” episodes had been a serious a part of the present’s fifth season. Heigl’s character, who unknowingly had a mind tumor on the time, started to see hallucinations of her former fiancé, performed by Morgan.
Regardless of the awkward nature of filming the scenes, Morgan added that he was happy to be again on the present after his character’s demise within the season 2 finale.
“But it surely was nice to be again, I’ll say that,” he defined. “The work is all the time nice. It’s like Katie stated, I don’t know that the story caught. It was a tough one for the viewers as a result of it was so sort of out of the realm of Gray’s Anatomy. And I feel by the point we… It began airing whereas we had been nonetheless taking pictures the story, and we knew that the viewers response wasn’t that enthusiastic about, ‘What? She’s seeing a lifeless man? What the f— is occurring?’”
Heigl felt the identical approach. “For me, I liked Izzie and I needed her to get to have that with Denny. And so there was a part of me that liked it and needed to do it, and needed to see her have that, even when it was only a fantasy,” she defined. “However yeah, as a result of there was this supernatural facet of it, such as you’re saying, it wasn’t essentially within the realm of Gray’s Anatomy.”