Ellen Pompeo is one in all three authentic Gray’s Anatomy solid members who’ve remained on the long-running collection since its debut in 2005.
In 2022 (Season 19), Pompeo took a step again from the medical drama named after her character, Meredith Gray, and in a brand new interview, the star explains why she hasn’t totally left the present.
“That will make no sense, emotionally or financially. The present was streamed greater than a billion instances in 2024. Greater than a billion instances,” Pompeo instructed El País whereas selling A Good American Household. “The businesses that personal the present and stream the present make some huge cash from our pictures and our voices and our faces.”
She continued, “If I have been to stroll away utterly, everyone will get to earn cash from my exhausting work for 20 years and I wouldn’t make any cash. To me, it doesn’t make any sense that everyone [else] will get to revenue off of my exhausting work. And emotionally, the present means so much to folks. I need to have an perspective of gratitude towards the present.”
Throughout the identical interview, Pompeo additionally defined why she selected to behave in one other TV collection after decreasing her function in Gray’s Anatomy.
“Nicely, it is a restricted collection, so I gained’t seem as this character once more. I used to be simply on the lookout for one thing that was very completely different from Meredith Gray, and this supply offered itself,” she mentioned.