Ellen Pompeo wasn’t thrilled to be scrubbing into that intercourse scene.
The actress, 55, revealed why she wasn’t happy when her character Meredith Gray and T.R. Knight’s George O’Malley had intercourse in Season 2 of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
“T.R. and I are such good friends and we had to do a love scene and we were both crying,” Pompeo recalled on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast on Wednesday. “The scene was so uncomfortable and awkward. He didn’t want to do that, I didn’t want to do it. When we filmed it, it was so bad. And then the network said there was too much thrusting.”
And due to this fact the costars needed to redo the second a second time.
“In your worst nightmare to have to do it one time, we had to reshoot that s–t…,” recalled Pompeo.
“I’ve never watched that scene. I’ve never seen it. I don’t know how it was shot or covered or how it was edited but I’m full-on in tears the whole entire scene and those are real tears. There was a lot of stuff that I didn’t want to do at the time.”
Season 2 of the drama ran from Sept. 2005 to Might 2006. The ABC hit is presently in its twenty first season.
The “Art Heist” alum additionally bought candid about stepping again from her position because the lead on the medical drama.
Though she remains to be a supporting character and a producer, Pompeo felt it was time to maneuver on in some capability.
“I didn’t know what I was going to do. I just knew that I really couldn’t do ‘Grey’s’ anymore,” she informed host Alex Cooper. “It was to the point where I really just felt like an animal at the zoo. I’m a big believer in destiny. I thought, if there’s something else I’m meant to do, it’s gonna find me. But I know I have to leave this.”
And through her time on “Grey’s,” Pompeo made headlines for combating to make equal pay.
Pompeo argued that she ought to make the identical amount of cash as her then co-star, Patrick Dempsey, who was her love curiosity on the present.
By 2018, she grew to become the highest-paid actress in a tv drama — bringing dwelling $20 million per season.
“To be completely fair, the television game was so different then. He had done 13 pilots before me,” she shared, including that the 59-year-old’s quote was a lot greater than her personal. “Nothing personal to him, just in general, only a man can have 13 failed TV pilots and their quote keeps going up, right? But in all fairness, his quote was what it was.”
Pompeo continued, “He was a bigger star than I was at that point. No one knew who I was. Everybody knew who he was, so he did deserve that money. I’m not saying he didn’t deserve that money. It’s just, being that I was the namesake of the show, I deserved the same and that was harder to get.”
“I wasn’t salty about him getting what he got. I was salty that they didn’t value me as much as they valued him, and they never will.”
“Being raised in a mafia culture, I always want to pay respect to the people that deserve respect,” Pompeo defined about her determination to inform Shonda Rhimes she could be asking for more cash.
Rhimes’ staff then confirmed the star the collection’ statistics, which helped Pompeo plead her case.
“I see exactly how much ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ makes for ABC/Disney,” she mirrored. “I get to see the number. It’s my face, it’s my voice. I’ve done so much work promoting the show all over the world for the past 20 years. I am the Disney princess of that franchise.”
However after stepping again from “Grey’s Anatomy,” Pompeo had no bother touchdown a brand new gig. The “Law & Order” vet’s new Hulu collection “Good American Family” debuts on Wednesday.
