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Ellen Pompeo revealed that one intimate scene on Grey's Anatomy caused her and her co-star to cry.
The actress, 55, appeared on Tuesday's Call Her Daddy podcast episode, where she discussed a sex scene between her and T.R. Knight, 51, from season two, episode 19.
Pompeo played Dr. Meredith Grey, a central protagonist of the show, for 19 seasons starting in 2005, before leaving the series as a regular in 2023. Meanwhile Knight played Dr. George O'Malley for the first five seasons, from 2005 to 2009.
After telling host Alex Cooper that she was closest to T.R. and her other co-star Justin Chambers during her time on the show, Ellen spoke about the time her character Meredith rebounded with George, who had liked her for years.
'T.R. and I are such good friends. And we had to do a love scene and we were both crying. We cried. We cried,' Ellen, who was pictured in New York on Tuesday, looking sizzling in a sheer black top, said.
'And the scene was so uncomfortable and awkward and he didn't wanna do that. I didn't wanna do it. And when we filmed it, it was so bad,' she added.
Ellen Pompeo, 55, revealed that one intimate scene on Grey's Anatomy caused her and her co-star to cry during her appearance on Tuesday's Call Her Daddy episode
The star was referring to a sex scene between her and T.R. Knight, 51, from season two, episode 19 (she is pictured in a still)
'And then the network said there was too much thrusting. In your worst nightmare to have to do it one time, we had to re-shoot that s**t.'
Ellen then shared that she has never watched the full scene.
'We had to re-shoot it and do it twice. By the way, I've never watched that scene. I've never seen it, but I don't know how it was shot or covered or what the end, how it was edited, but I'm full on in tears, the whole entire scene. And those are real tears.'
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The scene ends with Meredith in tears, asking George if they can go back to being friends, as she quickly realizes the rendezvous was a mistake.
In her interview she said it was George's death in the show that hit her the hardest.
George tragically dies at the end of season five after he is hit by a bus while saving a woman.
He is brought to the hospital as a John Doe due to his extensive injuries, with none of his colleagues realizing it's him, until he traces 007 — a nickname jokingly given to him by fellow residents — on Meredith's hand. Ultimately, his injuries proved unsurvivable.
She added that her co-star Sandra Oh's last day on set was also a 'really emotional' one. Oh starred as the formidable Dr. Cristina Yang.
'I can speak for myself. I can't speak for her, but for me it was really emotional because I really like, she was such a loss because she's so immensely talented and I really didn't think the show could go on without her and I was okay with that, but it literally felt like half of the show just leaving.'
Elsewhere on the podcast, Ellen revealed the advice she would give Meredith during her famous 'choose me' scene, where she begged Dr. Derek Shepherd (played by Patrick Dempsey) to choose her over his wife.
'Girl. Bye,' she simply quipped.
'T.R. and I are such good friends. And we had to do a love scene and we were both crying. We cried. We cried. And the scene was so uncomfortable and awkward and he didn't wanna do that. I didn't wanna do it. And when we filmed it, it was so bad,' she added
'And then the network said there was too much thrusting. In your worst nightmare to have to do it one time, we had to re-shoot that s**t'
'I've never seen it, but I don't know how it was shot or covered or what the end, how it was edited, but I'm full on in tears, the whole entire scene. And those are real tears,' she added
Pompeo played Dr. Meredith Grey, a central protagonist of the show, for 19 seasons starting in 2005, before leaving the series as a regular in 2023. Meanwhile Knight played Dr. George O'Malley for the first five seasons, from 2005 to 2009
In her interview she said it was George's death in the show that hit her the hardest. He tragically dies at the end of season five after he is hit by a bus while saving a woman
The two are also friends in real life, pictured March 2020 in Los Angeles
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She shared that was also a scene she did not want to do at the time.
'I didn't wanna say, "Pick me, choose me, love me." You know, and to [Shonda Rhimes' - creator of the show] credit, like she knew that was gonna pop. I was like, "Why would I do this? Why would I beg, why would I?" And you know, you have to just suck it up and do it.'
'And it ended up being, you know, the biggest thing ever, the most iconic things ever. So I'm not always the best judge of, you know, what's gonna, and it's not, like I said, it wasn't gonna be good. I was just like, I don't wanna do that.'
As for her husband Chris Ivery's reaction to her on screen romance with Dempsey, Ellen shared that it 'helped' that 'Chris really never watched the show.'
'It was better for him. He knew just not to watch. I was with him before Grey's, so Grey's kinda came out of nowhere for us. And I just think we were on this crazy ride that we were just trying to hang on for dear life, you know?' she said.
She also addressed the 'bias' he experienced and the 'racist, hateful, violent mail' she and ABC would get.
'I felt really, more bad about that, that I felt like the media was really mean to him and really biased because how dare this skinny, blonde, petite little woman be with this tall black man? The visual of that, I think America wasn't ready for that. The mail that I used to get, the racist, hateful, violent mail that ABC would get because of that.'
Ellen also touched on the pay disparity between her and Dempsey, after it was revealed that in early seasons of the show he was paid nearly twice what she was.
'To be completely fair, the television game was so different then, and he had done like 13 pilots before me, right?'
Ellen also shared she did not initially want to do her famous 'Pick me, choose me, love me' scene with Patrick Dempsey, sharing 'Why would I do this? Why would I beg, why would I?'; the two seen in a still
Ellen, who was pictured in New York on Tuesday, looking sizzling in a sheer black top, also touched on the pay disparity between her and Dempsey, after it was revealed that in early seasons of the show he was paid nearly twice what she was
'I'm not saying he didn't deserve that money, just being that I was the namesake of the show, I deserved the same,' she said
As for her husband Chris Ivery's reaction to her on screen romance with Dempsey, Ellen shared that it 'helped' that 'Chris really never watched the show'
She also addressed the 'racist, hateful, violent mail' she and ABC would get, adding that 'America wasn't ready' to see a 'skinny, blonde, petite little woman be with this tall black man'; the couple seen March 2
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'That was my first pilot I'd ever done and back in those days, you know, I don't know if they still do this or not, you had a quote and with every TV pilot you did, you got your quote, which was whatever it was, so if you've done 13 TV pilots, and here we go, nothing personal to him, but just in general, only a man can fail, can have 13 failed TV pilots and their quote still keeps going up, right?'
'But in all fairness, his quote was what it was. 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, just being that I was the namesake of the show, I deserved the same and then that was harder to get, so 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.'
Ellen's latest role is in Hulu's new limited series, Good American Family, which is set to come out March 19.
She portrays Kristine Barnett, the adopted mother of Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian adoptee accused of faking her age.
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