Ellen Pompeo doesn’t consider her 10-year-old daughter is able to watch her carry out as Meredith Gray in “Grey’s Anatomy.”
The “Catch Me If You Can” actress, 55, mentioned the favored ABC medical drama throughout a Thursday evening look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Whereas Pompeo was pleased to have fun the present one 12 months after kicking off its historic twentieth season, she was clear that it was nonetheless too quickly for her youngest daughter, Sienna, to tune in.
“My 15-year-old [Stella] has seen it, and now my 10-year-old wants to see it,” Pompeo advised Jimmy Kimmel. “She’s not ready, but a lot of kids in her class have seen it.”
“No judgment on other parents,” the “Good American Family” actress continued. “But I don’t want my daughter to see me in my underwear on television just yet.”
“But all her classmates have so… That makes for great conversation at pick-up.”
Pompeo married Chris Ivery in 2007. The actress and her music producer husband share two daughters and a son, Eli, 6.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” star stepped again from the Shonda Rhimes-created hit through the present’s nineteenth season. Her final episode as a collection common premiered in February 2023, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Pompeo mentioned she was “super happy” about her choice to step again from “Grey’s” after practically 20 seasons as a result of it gave her extra time to spend together with her three youngsters.
“I have three kids and so I take care of them,” she advised Drew Barrymore in December 2022, “and it’s really important for me to be around for them and be more present for them.”
Pompeo’s exit marked the newest departure of a fan favourite, with some viewers asking if it’s time to tug the plug on the beloved medical drama.
“Grey’s Anatomy isn’t the powerhouse it used to be,” Lynette Rice, who wrote the ebook “How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy,” completely advised The Submit forward of the present’s Season 21 premiere in September. “But that doesn’t make it any less valuable to ABC.”
“It makes me a little sad that ABC is squeezing every last whipple out of this aging franchise, but the alternative is seeing the death of broadcast TV,” she continued. “And that’s not good for any of us.”
Even the present’s creator admitted she wasn’t certain how “Grey’s” may finish.
“I knew how that story will end when we were in Season 6, in Season 7 and maybe Season 10, and after that I just gave up because I would write those endings and the show just kept going,” Rhimes mentioned in 2023.
“I’ll have a feeling the same way I knew Scandal [was going to end],” she added. “I’ll have a feeling of like, ‘We’ve done what we needed to do here.’”
Whereas “Grey’s” has been renewed by ABC, the drama’s present showrunner – Meg Marinis – steered Pompeo may return ought to one other season be introduced.
“She is the essence of the show,” Marinis mentioned, including that the actress is welcome to return “as much as she can and she wants.”
“Those conversations haven’t quite started yet,” Marinis continued throughout an interview with the LA Occasions earlier this month. “I believe that there’s something in place for her already, but I’m not completely aware of it.”
“My feeling is that it would probably be around the same amount as this season, and it also just depends on her schedule.”
