An apple a day gained’t maintain Ellen Pompeo away.
The “Grey’s Anatomy” star, 55, has revealed that she would by no means grasp up her scrubs and depart the favored medical drama for good as a result of she “wouldn’t make any money” if she did.
Pompeo, who has starred as Dr. Meredith Gray on the long-running ABC collection since its premiere again in March 2005, just lately mentioned the “emotional” and “financial” matter throughout an interview with El País.
“That would make no sense, emotionally or financially,” Pompeo stated when requested whether or not she would ever depart the beloved collection completely. “The show was streamed more than a billion times in 2024. More than a billion times.”
“The companies that own the show and stream the show make a lot of money from our images and our voices and our faces,” she continued. “If I were to walk away completely, everybody gets to make money from my hard work for 20 years, and I wouldn’t make any money.”
Pompeo defined “it doesn’t make any sense” that everybody however her would revenue from her “hard work” after 21 seasons, including that, from an emotional perspective, “Grey’s Anatomy” means “a lot to” the present’s tens of millions of followers.
“To me, it doesn’t make any sense that everybody gets to profit off of my hard work,” she stated. “And emotionally, the show means a lot to people. I want to have an attitude of gratitude toward the show.”
Elsewhere within the interview, the “Good American Family” star mentioned why she selected to pursue a smaller function on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Whereas Pompeo nonetheless serves because the present’s primary narrator, she doesn’t seem in each episode.
“I’ve been doing it for 20 years, so it was time to step away,” she defined to the outlet. “I have three children, and I love spending time with them, and I love being involved in their lives. I’m very lucky to be able to get to work sometimes and take time off. I have a nice balance in my life.”
As for her newest function as Kristine Barnett on the brand new Hulu collection “Good American Family,” Pompeo stated it was each “thrilling” and “terrifying” to play a personality that wasn’t Dr. Meredith Gray after greater than 20 years.
“It was at the same time thrilling and terrifying,” she admitted. “People have been watching me in the same role for 20 years. I’ve been playing the same role for 20 years. I had no reason to believe that I could do anything else.”
“I hadn’t tested myself in 20 years, and I can’t expect my audience to believe me as anything else,” Pompeo added. “If I’m going to ask them to watch me as a new character, then I’d better deliver on all fronts.”
Earlier than her interview with El País this month, Pompeo made headlines for opening up concerning the preliminary pay hole between herself and former “Grey’s Anatomy” co-star Patrick Dempsey in the beginning of the present’s first season.
“I wasn’t salty about him getting what he got,” the actress stated on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in March. “I was salty that they didn’t value me as much as they valued him, and they never will.”
Pompeo later renegotiated her contract and, by 2018, turned the highest-paid actress in a tv drama, bringing in $20 million per season of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
