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Grey's Anatomy Cast connected Filming Without Ellen Pompeo
There's a changing of the defender underway astatine Grey Sloan.
As Grey's Anatomy prepares to participate his 19th season, premiering Oct. 6 connected ABC, the beloved aesculapian play is getting a spot of a facelift. Not lone are a harvest of caller formed members joining the show, Ellen Pompeo, who has played Meredith Grey since the show's inception successful 2005, announced she would lone beryllium appearing successful a "limited capacity."
Grey's Anatomy without Meredith Grey?! Somebody sedate us!
However, the remainder of the Grey's formed insists that adjacent if Meredith mightiness not beryllium astir arsenic much—it's not clip to impale yourself with an icicle.
"As acold arsenic our communicative tones are concerned, we inactive person that Meredith dependable there, that Meredith presence," Chandra Wilson, who plays Miranda Bailey, exclusively told E! News. "The happening we've learned implicit the seasons is that Grey's maintains its consciousness nary substance who is there, nary substance which characters are there. "
James Pickens Jr., who plays Richard Webber, agreed successful saying, "She volition hover implicit the amusement arsenic agelong arsenic the amusement is successful existence."
Phew, we don't request to cue up "Chasing Cars" conscionable yet.
Even if Meredith does yet permission for good, it's hard to ideate she'll ever truly permission Grey Sloan down forever—just inquire Camilla Luddington, who plays Jo Wilson.
"I can't ideate a satellite successful which determination is nary Meredith Grey," Camilla said. "In the aforesaid mode that Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) comes backmost and Addison [Montgomery] (Kate Walsh) comes back, I can't ideate a satellite successful which she's not doing the same."
Indeed, it was announced Sept. 7 that Kate would beryllium returning in a recurring relation arsenic Dr. Montgomery for play 19, which volition assistance cure our nostalgia blues during specified a clip of alteration connected the show.
However, Anthony Hill, who has played Dr. Winston Ndugu since play 16 of Grey's, said fans should beryllium invigorated by the caller opportunities Ellen's lack volition create.
"The vibe is large connected set. It feels similar a small spot similar a passing of the torch," Hill said. "Not conscionable from [Ellen] to this caller intern class, due to the fact that that's what everybody is talking about, but besides a small spot of a passing of the torch to the remainder to the attendings and the radical who person been determination for a agelong time, and the radical who are conscionable getting started similar myself."
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Anthony said the inclusion of the show's caller interns—Harry Shum Jr., Adelaide Kane, Midori Francis, Alexis Floyd and Niko Terho—has fostered a giddy ambiance connected set.
"It's a chill energy. It's an vigor that I deliberation everybody is excited about," helium revealed. "Those interns bring an vigor that is truthful realistic to what interns would really bring to a hospital—this excitement and this youthful joy. I don't privation to accidental exuberance, but that's truly what it is."
Join the enactment erstwhile play 19 of Grey's Anatomy premieres Oct. 6 astatine 9 p.m. connected ABC.
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