Not each Grey’s Anatomy exit is created equally. Katherine Heigl, Patrick Dempsey, Justin Chambers and extra stars have left Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital — for varied causes.
Created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy debuted on ABC in 2005. While the actress who performs Meredith Grey has admitted that she’s practically walked away up to now, Pompeo is among the solely unique solid members nonetheless on the sequence as of season 17. Chandra Wilson (Miranda Bailey) and James Pickens Jr. (Richard Webber) are the one different two OGs remaining.
Even Rhimes left ABC in 2017, handing the reins over to Krista Vernoff to take over as showrunner.
“On every show I’ve ever worked on, there are stories you wish you could have told differently, but they were derailed by a behind-the-scenes issue. And that’s the thing that fans don’t understand,” Vernoff, who labored on seasons 1-7 of Grey’s earlier than returning for season 14, informed the Los Angeles Times in November 2020. “So, if you’re responding to fan outcries, you can go crazy because you want to tell them: ‘If some couple broke up really suddenly in the middle of what was a really exceedingly beautiful arc, that probably wasn’t what the writers wanted! There was probably some s—t happening behind the scenes that we had to stay up all night rewriting scripts to try to have any semblance of a story to tell.’ That’s why writers have producer titles in television because you’re not spending two years writing a script and then that’s a perfect script and then you’re shipping it up for people to shoot. There are personalities involved.”
Vernoff cited Heigl’s unprecedented exit through the center of season 6 for example.
“There was a resolution to Izzie’s story. We had planned to have her come back for an episode to really properly tie up Izzie and Alex (Chambers). And I wrote that episode, and it was beautiful. The day before it was supposed to start prepping or shooting, I can’t remember, we got a call that Katie wasn’t coming. Just wasn’t coming. Wasn’t going to do it,” the author stated. “It became my job to stay up all night for multiple nights and reimagine a script that didn’t include Izzie. And for years and years and years and years and years, the fans scream at us, ‘How could you?’ Well, that’s the behind-the-scenes story. That’s what happened. I’m not saying that to bash Katie. I don’t know what was happening in her life.”
Sources near Heigel, nevertheless, inform Us that “Vernoff is mistaken” with regards to the actress’ exit from the sequence. “Katherine was back in L.A. after parental leave (when she adopted her daughter) waiting to be called to set,” the sources stated.
While Heigl has but to return since her departure in 2010, Dempsey made headlines in November 2020 when his character, who died throughout season 11, made an anticipated look within the season 17 premiere.
“Patrick and Ellen and I were all there at the beginning of this; I wasn’t there for the pilot, but I was there for the first seven seasons, and that was 17 years ago,” Vernoff informed Deadline on the time. “That was, like, a lifetime ago; my kids weren’t alive. It was so wild to walk out on that beach, and just be together again as these different people that we are now. But I can’t overstate how joyful and healing an experience this was.”
But why did Dempsey depart Grey’s Anatomy within the first place? Scroll by means of a breakdown of the explanations behind the present’s greatest exits:
Source: www.usmagazine.com