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Ahead of her departure from Grey's Anatomy, Kelly McCreary exclusively told E! News what she'll miss astir astir the bid and shared her favourite moments.
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A month aft her onscreen sister Ellen Pompeo departed Grey's Anatomy, Kelly McCreary is besides scrubbing retired during play 19. Ahead of her last occurrence April 13, the histrion down Dr. Maggie Pierce revealed what—or alternatively who—she'll miss most.
"I'm going to miss my friends," Kelly exclusively told E! News astatine PaleyFest connected April 2. "I'm going to miss the people, I'm going to miss the worldly we bash unneurotic connected camera. I'm going to miss hanging retired successful Caterina [Scorsone]'s trailer. I'm gonna miss being greeted by Laura Petticord, our basecamp AD, each day. I'm gonna miss JoAnna Connell, our constitution artist. Everyone—it's the radical for me."
But it's not just the radical she'll miss arsenic she exits the bid aft 10 seasons connected the ABC aesculapian drama. Kelly besides recounted immoderate of her favourite moments from throughout its adjacent two-decade run.
"One that I was progressive successful that I thought was truly astonishing was erstwhile Bailey (Chandra Wilson) had to spell to different infirmary to get attraction for a aesculapian information that she had," Kelly explained of the play 14 episode. "She wasn't believed due to the fact that of her Blackness and woman-ness. She needed a batch of radical to basal up for her."
It was that real-world resonance that struck the actress.
"I deliberation that extrapolates to immoderate identity, the thought that sometimes we are not believed and we springiness our spot over, and they're not ever taking attraction of us," she continued. "It was a large statement for making definite your squad is successful spot and being brave capable to inquire questions and brave capable to cognize yourself. I loved that episode."
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As for different of her favourite moments? It came adjacent earlier she joined the amusement successful play 10.
"Callie (Sara Ramirez) and the Chief (James Pickens, Jr.) were going astir to different hospitals to spot however they functioned," Kelly shared of the play 9 storyline. "The patients were treated similar numbers successful these different places. Again, that's an acquisition of a batch of radical successful healthcare."
And that's not conscionable successful the satellite of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
"The dive is not heavy capable to truly assistance radical find what their problems are due to the fact that of the mode our healthcare strategy is acceptable up," she explained. "That's not the responsibility of the doctors oregon the nurses, it's bigger than that. I was blown distant by that."
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So, what's adjacent for her after a decennary of playing a surgeon successful the sexiest infirmary successful America?
"The originative skyline is broad," Kelly added. "I'll beryllium looking to nutrient immoderate worldly for myself and conscionable worldly I privation to spot done. I'm truly looking guardant to stepping into immoderate bodies and characters that are unexpected."
See however Kelly McCreary's clip astatine Grey's Anatomy comes to an end, April 13 connected ABC.
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