This 2025 was the year in which, for the first time in two decades, we saw
Ellen Pompeo
playing a character who was not Meredith Grey. The actress, who made her debut as the brilliant doctor in 2005 when she was just a resident at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, and has since been the central figure of the medical drama, plays one of the main roles in the thriller.
A Perfect Family
, a fiction based on the bizarre real case of Natalia Grace, which also premiered in March
Disney+
.
In the new series, Pompeo steps away from her role as a surgeon to bring to life a seemingly perfect housewife, Kristine Barnett, who after adopting a Ukrainian girl through a somewhat strange procedure begins to suspect that her daughter is actually an adult woman.
Her casting in the new series marked a turning point in Pompeo’s career, as she had been completely dedicated to
Grey’s Anatomy
, also as a producer, and finally was able to step away from the character.
Pompeo’s exit from the ABC series, although not final, marked a new phase for the actress in the show, as her presence has continued to be smaller since then. Now, it is expected that she returns in season 22, which has already received the green light from the network, but again, with less leading role than she had before her temporary departure.
However, although not all are good memories about Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo feels very grateful to the series and continues wishing the best for both the fiction and the character.
I try my best to remember everything good and not just the bad
, guaranteed in a recent interview with Variety.
Second told the publication, she believes that the first seasons seemed much better.
when we were shooting on film and not on digital
, although he admits that the series has evolved a lot over the years and that now
there is a very evident effort to combine comedy and drama
. However, when Pompeo is not satisfied with Meredith’s plots, she does not hesitate to communicate this to the team, as happened with an episode from the 21st season in which she did not agree with her character’s actions. However, sometimes she has to accept it.
I don’t always have a say in the decisions the character makes. And the writers initially develop a plot before stopping to think: ‘Would the Meredith Grey that [Ellen] built make this decision?’
This happened to me recently last season, when I strongly opposed a decision that Meredith was making
, he remembered in reference to the narrative arc in which Meredith discovers that Evynn, the doctor played by
Lena Waithe
, mentioned his wife’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis so that she could remain eligible for a liver transplant that would save her life.
My problem with this story was that the Meredith Grey I created would always say something like: ‘It annoys me that you lied, [but] let’s find out how to manipulate the system to get this damn liver for you. Screw the system. The system is broken’
, reflects Pompeo. However, the writers decided that Meredith would tell the board and Ellen Pompeo became angry. In the end, it was actually Waithe who helped her understand that the plot was actually favoring Meredith’s romantic interest, Dr. Nick Marsh (
Scott Speedman
)
My frankness about the creative aspect of the series comes from a deep interest in it. I think my job is to try to keep Shonda Rhimes’ legacy as solid and good as possible, and when you stop caring, stop doing things by phone or stop wasting time, you stop doing what we are paid to do.
, guarantee Pompeo, proud of doing things as she does.
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