Who are you telling?’ Like, ‘You barely know where the bathroom is.’ And I have the utmost respect for him as an actor, as a director, as everything, but like, yo, we went at one day.” Don’t you tell him what to do,’ And I was like, ‘Listen, motherf***er, this is my show. Pompeo says when she went off script and spoke dialogue that insinuated she was telling the actor what to do, “Denzel went ham on my ass.” Here is what she fully had to say: The actor made the choice to speak softly to Pompeo in character in regards to the apology and the actress yelled at him, in character, to look her in the eye when he was apologizing. The scene was highly emotional which led to her improvising dialogue at the moment in response to an acting decision made by the guest star. The story was inspired by a real-life incident in which an epileptic patient goes into a seizure and beats up a nurse. Meredith Grey, is asked to listen to an apology from a man who seriously injured her, leaving her with a broken jaw.
The actress says that she was shooting a scene for the end of the episode in which her character, Dr. Even though Pompeo began by calling Washington “amazing”, she went on to reveal the heated exchange that the two had while shooting a scene, saying “he went nuts on me” before adding that she was telling a “good Denzel story” from his time on set before detailing what happened. Dempsey had already departed the show the season before and didn’t get a chance to be directed by the actor. While sharing her story on a new episode of her podcast Tell Me With Ellen Pompeo with former Grey’s co-star Patrick Dempsey, the two began discussing directing and Dempsey asked her what it was like when Washington came on board to helm an episode. Washington directed the 2015 season 12 episode “The Sound of Silence.” According to Pompeo, things got a bit heated during the filming of one particular scene which led to the two getting into it on set. Denzel Washington? It seems like an unlikely battle but apparently, it did happen in some capacity when Washington made his small-screen directing debut on her hit show, Grey’s Anatomy.
0 kommentar(er)
