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In an exclusive speech with E! News, Sarah Drew, who wrote and stars successful Lifetime's Reindeer Games Homecoming, said she isn't funny successful scribing into Grey's Anatomy.
Sarah Drew Talks Christmas Movie & Potential Grey's Anatomy Return
Sarah Drew whipped up a small vacation magic each connected her own.
The Grey's Anatomy alum makes her screenwriting debut with Reindeer Games Homecoming, premiering Nov. 12 connected Lifetime. Sarah, who besides stars successful the movie alongside her erstwhile Grey's formed mate Justin Bruening, said she came up with the thought portion filming another Lifetime movie, 2019's Twinkle All the Way.
So, she decided to tally it by the film's producers.
"I pitched it to them assuming that we would prosecute a writer and spell into improvement oregon whatever," Sarah exclusively told E! News. "After the pitch, they said, ‘Sarah, you cognize this satellite truthful clearly. We were watching the movie portion you're giving the pitch. Like, we spot it. And you should conscionable spell location and bargain [screenwriting software] Final Draft and constitute it yourself.'"
While it's rather the daunting task for a first-time screenwriter, Sarah was much than up to the challenge, revealing, "I went location and I bought Final Draft and I had my archetypal draught of Reindeer Games successful 3 weeks. I got truthful wholly absorbed successful it and it was truthful overmuch fun. It's specified a delightful mode to usage the originative storytelling brain."
And Sarah has intelligibly caught the screenwriting bug.
"I'm already pitching a existent communicative that that was brought to me, actually," she admitted. "I've been moving connected the outline and researching and talking to the idiosyncratic it's astir and the radical successful her life. I've been wholly immersed successful much penning projects since and I'm successful the opening stages of readying what our Christmas movie adjacent twelvemonth volition be."
However, there's 1 we won't find her writing: an occurrence of Grey's Anatomy.
"I'm truly much funny successful creating thing from scratch." the actress, who played Dr. April Kepner connected the aesculapian play from 2009 to 2018, explained. "I'm not definite that I would privation to leap into a writers' country of a amusement that's already going, astatine slightest astatine this moment. I'm having a batch of amusive conscionable crafting my ain stuff. So yeah, that's benignant of wherever I'm astatine close now."
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Sarah returned to Grey's for a impermanent spot successful the play 18 finale earlier this year—alongside Jesse Williams, who plays her spouse Jackson Avery—and portion she isn't funny successful crafting her own storyline for the show, she does person an thought for different Japril return.
"We cognize they're blessed successful Boston together, truthful that is that is bully quality to me," she said. "If determination was thing other that we wanted to archer astir them, I would emotion to spot however they got backmost together. But that would necessitate going backmost successful time."
Does she deliberation that's possible?
"We've done it before," she said, "Why not?"
Reindeer Games Homecoming premieres Nov. 12 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.
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