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Shonda Rhimes Reveals SHOCKING Method Behind Her Creative Process
Grey's Anatomy isn't flatlining anytime soon.
The longtime aesculapian drama's creator, Shonda Rhimes, precocious revealed the aboriginal of the hit ABC show, crediting the fandom for ever scrubbing into the amusement play aft season.
"I mightiness beryllium a precise aged woman by the clip we scope it's past play due to the fact that it doesn't look to beryllium stopping," the screenwriter exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker, "which is fantastic and I consciousness the satellite truly belongs to the fans and the fans person been truly wide astir what they want."
Shonda added that erstwhile it comes to the series—which is presently successful its 19th season—she's pursuing the aureate regularisation of: If it ain't broke, don't hole it.
"It's such an astonishing show and it's doing truthful good arsenic it's moving forward," the 53-year-old explained. "I'm going to leaver it unsocial and spot wherever it goes, and we're going to enactment a amusement arsenic agelong arsenic everybody wants to beryllium determination and arsenic agelong arsenic the fans privation to beryllium there."
As for however Shonda felt saying goodbye to Ellen Pompeo, who departed from the show in Feb. 2023 aft eighteen years? As she enactment it, "Having Ellen permission was heartbreaking for everybody, but besides knowing that she could travel backmost anytime was besides important for me."
Shonda noted that she wanted to "make definite everybody understood that the door's ever open—for any of our past characters" by leaving Meredith Grey's exit open-ended.
"Ellen's an astonishing idiosyncratic and she and I person been having conversations the full time, discussing erstwhile it was clip and what it was feeling like," Shonda said of the actress' departure. "We've ever been having those discussions due to the fact that I've ever wanted her to beryllium excited and invested and enjoying herself arsenic overmuch arsenic she was astatine the beginning."
The Queen Charlotte showrunner added that it was clip for Meredith to determination connected truthful that Ellen tin "explore caller originative things."
"It was a small of a heartbreaking moment, but it was besides a moment—for me—that she's not gone due to the fact that she's coming back," she said. "I don't deliberation of her arsenic gone from the show, she's inactive doing the voiceovers, she's inactive there."
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But Grey's Anatomy isn't the lone fan-favorite amusement up Shonda's sleeve. After the success of Bridgerton, the Netflix bid got the spinoff attraction with a prequel titled Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.
"For me, Queen Charlotte was a instrumentality favourite of excavation from the infinitesimal we saw her successful that archetypal occurrence wherever the young ladies are presenting themselves to the Queen," she told E! News. "Even that archetypal representation of her connected the throne, with each the ladies successful waiting and that consciousness of power and glory and divaness was really interesting to maine and I began to truly wonder, 'How did she get this way?'"
Shonda also shared penetration into her creative process erstwhile it comes to creating tv gold. "I enactment retired large with the tears and the play each country arsenic I'm penning it," she confessed. "I cognize it's weird but it works. People successful my bureau often think, 'What's going connected successful there?' But it's important to my process."
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is present retired connected Netflix.
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