American actor Ellen Pompeo, famend for portraying the long-lasting Meredith Gray on Gray’s Anatomy, lately shared that she has no plans to fully exit the beloved collection, as she feels deeply linked to its success. In an interview with El País, Ellen defined that her exit “would make no sense, emotionally or financially”, including that the present was streamed “greater than a billion occasions in 2024 alone”.
The 55-year-old actor expressed her need to stay concerned with the present, so long as it continues to generate earnings. “The businesses that personal the present and stream the present make some huge cash from our photographs and our voices and our faces. If I had been to stroll away fully, all people will get to earn cash from my exhausting work for 20 years and I would not make any cash. To me, it would not make any sense that everyone [else] will get to revenue off of my exhausting work. And emotionally, the present means so much to individuals. I wish to have an angle of gratitude towards the present,” Ellen remarked.
Three years in the past, Ellen took on a lesser function on Gray’s Anatomy throughout season 19. Though she remained the present’s major narrator, her on-screen appearances had been restricted to simply eight of the 20 episodes. Within the twentieth season, she appeared in solely 4 out of the ten episodes. For season 21, Ellen might be seen in seven extra episodes. Reflecting on her determination to cut back, she shared, “I have been doing it for 20 years, so it was time to step away. I’ve three youngsters and I like spending time with them and I like being concerned of their lives. I am very fortunate to have the ability to get to work typically and take break day. I’ve a pleasant stability in my life.”
Other than lending her voice to Doc McStuffins and showing in Taylor Swift’s Dangerous Blood music video, Meredith Gray remained Ellen’s solely main on-screen function from 2005 to 2025. Nevertheless, she lately accepted her first new performing challenge in twenty years, taking up a job within the restricted collection Good American Household. She selected this challenge as a result of she was “searching for one thing that was very completely different from Meredith Gray,” a choice she discovered each thrilling and intimidating.
“It was on the similar time thrilling and terrifying,” she admitted. “Folks have been watching me in the identical function for 20 years. I have been taking part in the identical function for 20 years. I had no purpose to imagine that I may do the rest. I hadn’t examined myself in 20 years and I am unable to anticipate my viewers to imagine me as the rest. If I will ask them to observe me as a brand new character, then I might higher ship on all fronts,” she added.
